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Cultivating entrepreneurial leaders for a better world. Changing the Faces of Innovation yCITIES CreatingImpactThroughInnovationEntrepreneurship andSustainability focuses on creating a strong and diverse pipeline of tomorrows founders and investors while also creating spaces for todays entrepreneurs who natively understand the problem theyre addressing. By breaking down silos cultivating openminded thinkers and bridging seemingly disparate communities yCITIES fosters an entrepreneurial ecosystem from middle schoolers and beyond that blurs the lines between students and subjectmatterexperts for on any given day we can be both. Through curriculum scaffolded mentoring support tools and interactive social network we are pushing the boundaries of where innovation can flourish the perception of what ingenuity looks like and who has a seat at the entrepreneurial table.