The following is being distributed at the request of the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation:

The third Pan-Atlantic Entrepreneurship/Enterprise Education Symposium will be held at Moncton's Hotel Beausejour August 16 and 17.

Approximately 50 Anglophone and Francophone educators from across the Atlantic provinces will take part in a series of workshops as well as panel and round table discussions designed to identify profiles of entrepreneurship skills for students in grades three, six, nine and 12.

"This two-day symposium should help educators learn about what is needed to help students succeed in the 21st century," said the New Brunswick Minister of Education, James Lockyer.

The theme of this year's symposium, organized by the New Brunswick Department of Education, is Confronting the Monster Under the Bed.

Lawrence MacAulay, Secretary of State for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and Veterans, and James Lockyer will address the symposium participants and participate in the launch of two newly developed entrepreneurship teaching resources during the opening day luncheon on August 16.

This symposium is part of a joint entrepreneurship development accord between the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation (APEF), representing the four Atlantic provincial departments of education, and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. A total of four annual symposia are included in the five-year agreement, with each province hosting one of them.

Presenting at the conference and lending their expertise as facilitators for the various workshops and discussions will be some of the region's leading entrepreneurship educators: Terry Matthews, a professor at the Miramichi Campus of the New Brunswich Communtiy College; Claudette Charest-Chouinard, coordinator of francophone entrepreneurship education with the APEF, along with Chris Curtis and Jo-Anne Acherboom-Leach from the Centre for Entreprensurship Education and Development, Nova Scotia Department of Education and Development.

These annual conferences are designed to promote the exchange of ideas and information and create an awareness of the resources available to enterprise and entrepreneurship educators from across Atlantic Canada. They also help create a regional working network of educators and entreprenseurs.

Contact: Patricia Wishart, Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation, (902) 424-8906; or Lois Stevenson, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, (506) 851-7814.