Norwalk, Biola and La Mirada partner on summer innovation camp

Biola University, the City of La Mirada, and the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School will launch the Summer High School Innovation Camp, officials announced this week.

The Innovation Camp will be held at Biola during the week of August 5-9 for rising junior and senior high school students in Norwalk-La Mirada, camp aims to provide students with hands-on experiences in entrepreneurship, innovation, and design thinking.

Through a series of workshops, creative sessions, and interactions with faculty, students, alumni, EIRs (entrepreneurs-in-residence) and staff, participants will explore their entrepreneurial potential, create a new business idea, validate the idea through customer interviews, present the idea to a panel of community leaders and develop valuable professional and personal skills for success.

Registration is open and costs $20 to reserve a space for a student. The daily sessions will run from 8:30 am to 1 pm for the five days which include a daily snack provided.

All students that complete the camp will receive a $20 gift card at the last session.

For details on how to sign up, visit nlmusd.org