Whereas, Together with Generation E, Youth Entrepreneurship Week works to celebrate and promote youth entrepreneurship by showcasing middle school, high school, and young adult student businesses that were created, researched, and operated while taking part in the Generation E program; and

Whereas, More than 100 Generation E student businesses from across Michigan will display their products for the public to view and purchase and also will be entered in a competition for prize money at the Third Annual Generation E student Business Showcase on May 13, 2008; and,

Whereas, Generation E incorporates entrepreneurship learning into middle school, high school, and young adult curricula and works to promote the entrepreneurial spirit by unleashing the full potential and creativity of students through hands-on business experience; and,

Whereas, Generation E is a model program for Michigan schools that will continue to build the educational and economic foundation for a robust Michigan economy; and now therefore be it,

Resolved, That I, Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, do hereby proclaim the week of May 11, 2008, as Youth Entrepreneurship Week.