IBX Youth Entrepreneur Series provides lessons on successful business

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Black Expo's Summer Celebration is in full swing and events are happening all across Indianapolis this week.

Festivities continued Tuesday morning with the IBX Youth Entrepreneur Series.

Dozens of middle and high school students gathered at the Indiana Convention Center for workshops centered on empowering the next generation for business success.

The students created business plans, pitched ideas and competed for prizes.

"We want these young people to feed into our economic, we want to make them equitable in the marketplace with that, we're providing those resources for these young people to go out and to be equitable in this marketplace and create opportunities for them," said Matthew White with IBX.

There are more events you can attend this week before the Summer Celebration wraps on Sunday.

For more information on festivities, click here.