Yanik, P. M., & Cagle, W., & Ritenour, A., & Ferguson, C. W., & Rowe, S. (2025, June), BOARD # 371: Fostering Leaders in Technology Entrepreneurship (FLiTE): S-STEM Program Third Year Progress  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/55743

\bibitem{asee_peer_55743}
  Yanik, P. M., \& Cagle, W., \& Ritenour, A., \& Ferguson, C. W., \& Rowe, S. (2025, June), \emph{BOARD \# 371: Fostering Leaders in Technology Entrepreneurship (FLiTE): S-STEM Program Third Year Progress}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/55743

Paul M Yanik, Wendy Cagle, Andrew Ritenour, Chip W Ferguson, and Scott Rowe.  "BOARD # 371: Fostering Leaders in Technology Entrepreneurship (FLiTE): S-STEM Program Third Year Progress".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/55743 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_55743}
  Paul M Yanik, Wendy Cagle, Andrew Ritenour, Chip W Ferguson, and Scott Rowe.
  "BOARD \# 371: Fostering Leaders in Technology Entrepreneurship (FLiTE): S-STEM Program Third Year Progress".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/55743 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The NSF S-STEM-funded program titled Fostering Leaders in Technology Entrepreneurship (FLiTE) hosted by Western Carolina University has now completed its third year of operation. The program continues to its mission to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset and growth-oriented thinking among a cohort of engineering and technology students with the goal of creating graduates who become growth-oriented professionals and entrepreneurs. With the onboarding of its second-year recruiting class, the program has begun to observe the productive interactions of its vertically integrated cohort. Program activities for the 2024 calendar year have included a team-based pitch development program, scholar participation in an externally facilitated certificate course in business startup logistics, and the integration of scholar’s product ideas into the Project-Based Learning curriculum of the host department. This paper describes each of these program highlights.  As the scholars progress in their degrees with some nearing the Flight phase of the program, the dynamics of integrating the scholars’ work into their degree curricula are addressed. Pre- and post-year surveys assessing scholars’ perception of their entrepreneurial self-efficacy are summarized, showing a positive trajectory.  

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AU  - Scott Rowe
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