Biz Builders Camp - Acton Academy and Montessori El Salvador

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Empower your Child to Build their Own Future

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School teaches children to follow instructions. The future belongs to those who can build businesses.
Even if your child's school is good at academics, they aren't learning how to:
identify an opportunity
turn an idea into something real
handle failure - and to get back up and keep going
talk to customers
understand money
build confidence
At our Business Builders Camp, learners don't read a textbook about business, and they don't play business.
They build, test, sell and learn - for real.
Why did we start Business Builders?
Global economic change threw our family into a crisis.
Entrepreneurship is how we survived.
Our Story
How the Falkensteins turned a crisis into opportunity

David was an hermano lejano - he left El Salvador to study engineering and started a finance-related business in New York. Shannon was a science teacher who was ready to settle down and start a family.
We got married in 2007. David wanted to return to El Salvador.
In 2008, pregnant with our son, we packed up everything and moved.
Soon, the 2008 financial crisis hit.
By 2010, with a baby and toddler, our business closed.
We had no generational weath.
We had no safety net.
We had two babies depending on us.
And we were in a country with terrible violence and insecurity.
We had to make a choice: leave or stay and build.
We chose to stay and build.
David turned a homebrew hobby into Cadejo Brewing Company.
Shannon turned her passion for education into Acton Academy El Salvador.
Nothing about our story was handed to us. We created opportunity through our grit, perseverance, creativity and our stubborn refusal to give up.
Cadejo has grown to 12 restaurants and offers dignified employment to more than 300 Salvadorans and Guatemalans.
Acton Academy El Salvador offers an authentic Montessori preschool and an innovative modern alternative to traditional school to hundreds of families.
Now we want to help young people learn the skills that helped us transform crisis into opportunity and improve El Salvador.
We want your children to learn how to see possibility, how to take action, and how to turn their ideas into something real that serves the world.
Because the future is not given to us, we have to build it.
Big ideas build El Salvador.
The real entrepreneurship experience for children

A summer program where kids build real businesses and sell their product at the Acton Children's Business Fair - El Salvador's largest entrepreneurial fair for young people.
Idea
Brainstorming, research, opportunity spotting, problem-solving.
Create
Prototyping, designing, getting feedback, refining. Then, producing.
Sell
Selling their product in a real marketplace. Pitching their product.
Confidence in Action
Young Builders at our Acton Children's Business Fair
Next year, this can be your child!

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Reserve your child's spot
Ages 5-17 years old
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Join us for camp in July
6-23 July, 2026
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Feel proud at the Fair
Our biggest Children's Business Fair yet!
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"This camp changed how my child sees herself."
After building and selling her own product, our daughter had more confidence. Now she talks about "her business," is curious about money and takes more initiative. Every child should experience this.
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What Makes this Camp Amazing
Complete
A complete entrepreneurship cycle. If you can build one business and sell your product, you can scale the process to create bigger businesses. Get started now.
Real
Real customers, real risk and real learning at the Acton Children's Business Fair. A camp built by real entrepreneurs who have made it in El Salvador.
Nurturing
A safe and supportive space where courage, independence skills and creativity grow. Our experienced coaches will equip and inspire your child.
Reserve your spot

Empower your Child to Build their Own Future

School teaches children to follow instructions. The future belongs to those who can build businesses.

At our Business Builders Camp, learners don't read a textbook about business, and they don't play business.

They build, test, sell and learn - for real.

Why did we start Business Builders?

Global economic change threw our family into a crisis.

Entrepreneurship is how we survived.

Our Story

How the Falkensteins turned a crisis into opportunity

The real entrepreneurship experience for children

A summer program where kids build real businesses and sell their product at the Acton Children's Business Fair - El Salvador's largest entrepreneurial fair for young people.

Idea

Create

Sell

Confidence in Action

Young Builders at our Acton Children's Business Fair

Next year, this can be your child!

Reserve your child's spot

Join us for camp in July

Feel proud at the Fair

"This camp changed how my child sees herself."

What Makes this Camp Amazing

Complete

Real

Real customers, real risk and real learning at the Acton Children's Business Fair. A camp built by real entrepreneurs who have made it in El Salvador.

Nurturing

A safe and supportive space where courage, independence skills and creativity grow. Our experienced coaches will equip and inspire your child.

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