The Snider Enterprise and Leadership Fellows (SELF) Experience is a selective three-week summer program offered by the University of Maryland's Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, designed for innovative and motivated high school students interested in entrepreneurship and business. Running from July 13 to 31, 2026, participants earn three undergraduate college credits through the Robert H. Smith School of Business while working in collaborative teams to develop personal leadership plans and explore real-world enterprise challenges. The program is available in residential, commuter, and fully online formats, making it accessible to students across the country. It is a rare opportunity for high schoolers to engage with university-level business education and build the entrepreneurial mindset and leadership skills that will set them apart in college and beyond.
Turning an idea into a real venture, from planning through execution.
Guiding a group toward a shared goal and keeping everyone moving together.
Delivering ideas clearly and confidently in front of an audience.
Setting long-term goals and mapping out the steps to reach them.
Breaking down a challenge and working through it methodically to a solution.
Promoting a product, idea, or organization to reach and persuade an audience.
Students develop and pitch their own ventures while learning business fundamentals and entrepreneurial mindset.
Program explicitly covers marketing, strategy, and market-based economics through real-world problem solving.
Students apply strategic planning and problem-solving to real-world business cases under faculty guidance.
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