PHILADELPHIA, December 6, 2021—Steppingstone Scholars (Steppingstone) today announced a new partnership with the Wharton Global Youth Program that will offer socioeconomically underserved students in Philadelphia a pathway to college and business education. The partnership initially focuses on three specific areas: Dual Enrollment Courses: High school students will enroll in college-level courses at Wharton, free…Read More
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, many high school students embraced innovation. For Caleb A., a senior at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Georgia, that took the form of Up Next Finance, a website to help high school students understand investing, economics and personal finance. “My mission is to help…Read More
A major milestone just announced by the Wharton Global Youth Program team provided us with the theme for our latest Essential Educator, a blog written by high school educators for high school educators. Our new integrated website, launched in early November 2021, now also features all of our content, including…Read More
It’s an acronym that is sweeping the business world – and yet, for many, it is misunderstood. ESG, or Environmental, Social and Governance, has become the unifying lens with which people evaluate companies’ efforts to do more than just make a financial profit. Building on the Wharton School’s latest Tarnopol Lecture…Read More
On this month’s episode of Future of the Business World (listen by clicking the arrow above), we meet high school senior Alana Andrews, a teen innovator from Virginia who has embraced entrepreneurship with her whole mind and heart. She exudes passion as she shares her story of launching The SWEY…Read More
We’ve recently become a bit better at one thing: building our online networks. When a global pandemic forces you to stay home, you find ways to stay connected – through Zoom, social media, collaboration apps. As it turns out, though, connecting remotely is probably not the best way to integrate…Read More 
The Wharton Global Youth Program takes an important leap forward this week with the launch of our new and improved Wharton Global Youth Program website. This change comes just in time to showcase our 2022 Wharton Summer High School programs, for which applications are now open. Students can read up…Read More
In October 2021, The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s top conservation organizations, announced a groundbreaking business partnership with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, an independent island country in the Pacific Ocean. Together, they have launched Pacific Island Tuna, a joint-venture company that will supply sustainable canned tuna to Walmart stores across the…Read More 
Any road warrior will tell you — it’s a jungle out there! The congested highways of our lives make it all the more critical to feel confident when you get behind the wheel and head toward the traffic. While many 16-year-olds are excited by the prospect of driving and…Read More 
This fall, the University of Pennsylvania celebrated Gen Z’s deep involvement in the climate movement with a collective reading of All We Can Save, an anthology of writings by 60 women at the forefront of the climate movement. The virtual keynote event for the recent Climate Week at Penn featured the co-editors of…Read More
