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Intuit Impact: Job readiness success stories
Learn more about how Intuit's job readiness programs are empowering students with the skills they need to succeed.
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The Social Innovation Challenge provides an opportunity for students to build new skills and design innovative, impactful solutions for real-world problems.
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Q&A with Innovation Challenge Teacher
Learn more about the Social Innovation Challenge through the lens of an experienced educator in Washoe County, Nevada.
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Enlighteners win Social Innovation Challenge
Hear the winners of Intuit's inaugural Social Innovation Challenge discuss the importance of the competition and why the chose to create "Enlighteners".
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Intuit partners with Compton schools
Learn how Intuit is working with CTE director Dr. Silke Bradford to bring hands-on learning and entrepreneurship opportunities to Compton Unified School District.
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Empowering Future Success with Critical Personal Finance Skills and an Entrepreneurial Mindset
NACCE's Dr. Rebecca Corbin interviews Dave Zasada, Vice President of Intuit Corporate Responsibility, to explore how adding an entrepreneurial mindset to financial literacy skills can create great success.
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Intuit partners with school districts and educational organizations to provide students with an opportunity to learn design thinking, develop innovative solutions, and compete to win scholarships. Check out some of the outstanding teams who have competed in the Social Innovation Challenge.
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What our educators are saying
As a teacher, I am extremely passionate and enthusiastic when it comes to my students learning the [QuickBooks Online] platform as well as the accounting that takes place behind the scenes. I believe that in doing so, I am setting my students up for success in the workplace and/or in their own businesses.
QuickBooks Online is one of my favorite courses to teach because it gives students tangible skills at the end of the semester (actually around the middle of the semester) they can immediately implement to be successful employees, or even entrepreneurs.
We want these kids to be able to fail forward, so that they can be resilient. I really think they're going to transfer these [design thinking] skills to the workforce, and that's going to make for better employees all around. They're going to be able to think more critically and creatively and solve problems.
What our students are saying
I was introduced to QuickBooks by my professors at Hillsborough Community College. As the founder of Forgot or Knot, QuickBooks has helped me gain the discipline and form the habits I needed to manage my customers and company financials. It gave me the foundation and the confidence to scale the business.
I am beyond grateful to have had the wonderful opportunity of working with Intuit QuickBooks through The University of Texas at Dallas. Upon graduation, receiving my QuickBooks Certification opened up an innumerable amount of career opportunities and has solidified my skills within my profession of accounting.
By having guidance from my mentors, working with my teammates, and pitching the website to interested users, I gained insight into working in a real-world setting.
I have seen how detrimental not having access to mentors or people that understand certain aspects, like governmental procedures and permits, can be to a minority entrepreneur,” Mata said. “With our product we hoped to have been able to close this knowledge gap while creating an opportunity to network.
We developed problem solving skills as well as learned how to work in a team. We will utilize these skills by applying them to our future careers.
