♪ More than 100 high school students from across Kentucky participated in the governor's school for Entrepreneurs.

Summer startup program at the University of Kentucky, the three-week session, empower students with an entrepreneurial spirit to dream big.

>> Going into Gci was talking to my friend and she told me just to change your life, you're going to do said they've never done before and you're not going to be the same person.

And I was like, oh, my goodness.

This is not true.

But after coming here, I really have understood that just has changed my life for the better.

>> Gse is an immersive summer program for high school age students, interest in entrepreneurship.

We teach them how to identify and articulate problems like an entrepreneur.

How to design solutions using the business model can.

This is a framework?

And it ends in a big shark tank style pitch competition called pitch fast.

My group.

>> We change ideas from coming up with 100 problems.

We actually went up to 200 and so we came up with the problem of how to detect dehydration amongst collegiate athletes in football.

I love my group and it's just been so fun.

The first week is very stressful.

It was very hard.

It was a lot of adjusting.

So all of this, what all the tears and has been making miow 100 question.

I mean, my 100.

>> Pollens 500 solutions like.

>> It.

If I can go do that, he hoped it would also aggravated to do it.

But when I was laying in my bed a few months later, I realized like, wow, I did that.

>> Gse is not a classroom.

And at GSU we get the opportunity to put them in a brand new environment that is so unlike anything they are used to in school or at home.

And that challenges them.

But they learned through this process how to embrace that uncertainty, how to navigate in decision and how to make the best outcome.

It is.

>> Life changing and it isn't it.

Great is great experience to take advantage of.

I would say you gain more independence and I'd say you become more social again, you're getting I'm prepared for your future.

If you do choose to go to college, I think the primary skills that we're teaching here.

I agency, I think fail without fears a tagline.

We love to say.

>> And what I think about what the world looks like in this in the future with I able to answer any question you might need.

How do we teach students how to think critically about how they want to show up in the world and the impact they want to make one of our main goals is to break down barriers and >> and build bridges across the state where these young people can meet other young people from all different kinds of backgrounds, different parts of the state.

I come from a rural community, Costco, which is a very small town and coming to gse in meeting people from Hazard Kentucky from Litchfield.

>> From Madisonville, Kentucky.

It's wonderful learning about Kentucky's culture through people your own age in seeing what people in different communities around the state are doing.

Jesse is just the beginning like it has opened up the door for me to do so much to do that.

>> That's when we come back.

What a great program.

Jesse will continue its partnership with UK who will host the summer program through 2027.