VENTURING OUT: Brandon Lane, Social Enterprise Greenhouse director of youth programs, discusses a math-skills summer program organized by the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative. / PBN PHOTO/MARTIN GAVIN
When 126 high school juniors and seniors in northern Rhode Island started a summer program to beef up their math skills on Aug. 13, they began learning from entrepreneurs as well as teachers about the importance of using math to run a business. One of the entrepreneurs scheduled to show students how to pitch a…