Teen Entrepreneurship Symposium

's DECA Business Club will co-sponsor an entrepreneurship symposium for teenagers Nov. 7 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.  and will feature keynote speaker Maxine Clark, founder and chief executive of Build-A-Bear. The following teen entrepreneur panelists also will speak:

• Perry Chen of Perry's Previews

• Lily Sandler of BLAMtastic

• John Schenk of Show Me Signatures

• Adele Ann Taylor of Adele's Literacy Library

• Hart Main of Man-Cans

Registration is $15 per person, includes lunch and may be made online. The symposium will take place at the J.C. Penney Conference Center, 210 J.C. Penney Conference Center, 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121.

The Clayton club is working with Independent Youth, a nonprofit that promotes entrepreneurship among young people, on the event. A symposium agenda may be downloaded from the organization's website.

Questions may be emailed to info@independentyouth.org. Those interested in registering a group of students should email Tanya Hamilton at thamilton@independentyouth.org.