nndsbSome real-life learning experiences for students in the Near North District School Board’s Laurentian Learning Centre.
Officials say along with The Business Centre, the students went to MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences) and the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto for three days.  
The entrepreneurial incubators allow large and small entrepreneurs to develop their businesses and ideas. 
The students had the chance to learn about opportunities being created out of problems and how plans are developed to make the most of these opportunities.   Officials say they were able to make connections between what they were learning and current opportunities in their own lives.
Meantime, at the Centre for Social Innovation, the students explored innovations improve communities and the planet, as a whole.