Honor Education, a company formed by a family of Indiana Tech students and graduates, was named Innovator of the Year at the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Innovation Awards in November 2010. This story from the program for the 5th Annual Business Weekly Innovation Awards is reprinted with the permission of Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly.
Students Become the Teachers By Linda Lipp Business Weekly
Sean, Jared, Alyssa and Tristan Dugan are working hard to turn a concept their mother dreamed up 10 years ago into a successful, education-oriented software business. Honor Education LLC, a name mom Lisa Dugan also came up with, moved from the Dugan family home in August to a cubicle in the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center in Fort Wayne. The Dugans also use an Innovation Center conference room to teach the 22 middle school children who have enrolled in their Tech Academy, which launched in September. 8
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Sean, 24, and Jared, 23, both graduated from Indiana Tech in the spring with degrees in software engineering. Alyssa, 21, and Tristan, 19, are both seniors at Indiana Tech majoring in elementary education. Like the majority of the children in their Tech Academy classes, the Dugans were home-schooled. The offspring of Steve and Lisa Dugan have been working on computers since they were tots. “I’ve been programming since I was 8,” Sean told Business Weekly in March 2010.