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06-09-2014, 07:03 AM
Millennial Trains Project Helps Young People Get Their Ideas Moving
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When Patrick Dowd traveled to India on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010 to help lead the Jagriti Yatra (http://www.jagritiyatra.com/) — a train trip across India that encourages enterprise in small towns — he was inspired by the people he saw bringing ideas to life.
So inspired, in fact, that after less than a year on Wall Street he quit his job to create a similar project in the United States. Last summer, he and his team launched the Millennial Trains Project, a train ride taking participants from coast to coast and encouraging enterprise by supporting millennials' ideas.
See also: 5 Pieces of Career Advice for Women Tech Entrepreneurs (http://mashable.com/2014/02/09/5-pieces-of-career-advice-for-women-tech-entrepreneurs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/08/millennial-trains-project/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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When Patrick Dowd traveled to India on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010 to help lead the Jagriti Yatra (http://www.jagritiyatra.com/) — a train trip across India that encourages enterprise in small towns — he was inspired by the people he saw bringing ideas to life.
So inspired, in fact, that after less than a year on Wall Street he quit his job to create a similar project in the United States. Last summer, he and his team launched the Millennial Trains Project, a train ride taking participants from coast to coast and encouraging enterprise by supporting millennials' ideas.
See also: 5 Pieces of Career Advice for Women Tech Entrepreneurs (http://mashable.com/2014/02/09/5-pieces-of-career-advice-for-women-tech-entrepreneurs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/08/millennial-trains-project/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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