The Week in Canada engaged  more than 200 different organizations, who hosted more than 500 GEW event across  the country and reached millions of people from coast to coast. Thanks to the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), the official Hosts of GEWCanada, a  national advertising and media campaign also reached tens of millions of  Canadians. Highlights included:

Entrepreneurial Showcase with His Highness, The Prince of Wales
It was the networking opportunity of a lifetime for more than 20 CYBF entrepreneurs from all across Canada. As part of the Royal Visit to Canada, and a prelude to GEW Canada, His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales visited with the successful young business owners at a national entrepreneurial showcase held in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Athletes Village in Vancouver, British Columbia.  His Royal Highness interacted and meet with a wide variety of young entrepreneurs, in fields ranging from energy intelligence and CO2 emission control innovation to gourmet chocolate, from wet weather gear to ground-breaking security monitoring technology. The Premier of British Columbia, the Honourable Gordon Campbell and representatives from the provincial government, along with business and financial icons including David Aisenstat, President and CEO of The Keg Steakhouse & Bar; Gwyn Morgan, Founding President and CEO of EnCana Corporation and Tracy Redies, President and CEO of Coast Capital Savings, were also in attendance. Many of the young entrepreneurs taking part in the showcase were also involved in GEW events across the country, both on a regional and national level.

YPreneur Gene Contest
Wanting to champion a Canadian culture of entrepreneurship, nationally successful CYBF start-up PropertyGuys.com decided to help encourage the next generation of young Canadian business owners. A national event, the Ypreneur Gene contest asked entrants to describe why they were entrepreneurial enough to deserve being awarded a $100,000 PropertyGuys.com franchise package. Launched in New Brunswick, contestants from all across Canada submitted videos stating why they were prime carriers of the “Ypreneur Gene. Those videos were voted on through a website, and the top three finalists presented themselves in front of a crowd of more than 700 people at the Barbara Frum Atrium in the CBC building in Toronto, Ontario. Jennifer Howarth of Oakville, Ontario was chosen to be the winner by Jim Treliving and Arlene Dickinson of CBC's Dragon's Den and President of PropertyGuys.com, Ken LeBlanc. In addition to the PropertyGuys.com franchise, Jennifer will also be mentored by David Aisenstat, President and CEO of The Keg Steakhouse & Bar.

Sprout Up
Hosted by entrepreneurial networking website Sprouter, Sprout Up were free events for forward-thinking entrepreneurs to gather and mind-meld. Sprout Up is made up of three components; an innovation demo, where pre-selected entrepreneurs share innovative business ideas, a guest speaker, and a networking opportunity. The events in Montreal and Toronto offered young new business owners a great chance to get friendly, discuss current trends, and network in a casual, open, and focused setting. Hundreds of people took part in the events, and attendees walked away with new insights, new network connections and actionable ideas for their businesses.

Great Canadian Mentor Challenge
A national online event held throughout GEW, the Great Canadian Mentor Challenge asked industry leaders and experienced professionals from across Canada to contribute their business advice. Available in both English and French, the sites are an online resource for aspiring business owners, showing Canada as a world leader in mentoring young entrepreneurs. Mentoring advice came from all fields, including marketing, non-profit, business, retail, manufacturing, finance and innovation.

Advice from Mentoring Madness, sponsored by NYSE Euronext, is still resonating -- even two months after the event. And the mentions are popping up in some unexpected places -- everything from Wall Street Journal, to Black Enterprise magazine to PerezHilton.com.

The most recent addition to this list is MarieClaire.com. This longstanding magazine provides health, beauty and fashion information to an audience of close to 1 million readers (mostly women) each year. This month, that mission included sharing 10 Career Tips, pulled from the panel of expert entrepreneurs at Mentoring Madness.

Mentoring Madness brought together leading entrepreneurs, including Blake Mycoskie, founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMs Shoes; Barry S. Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital; and,Stephen P. Hanson, founder and president of B.R. Guest Restaurants, a New York-based, multi-concept operator that includes fifteen restaurants in three cities. University students were invited to meet the panel at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 16, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

A full Webcast of Mentoring Madness is still available.

The Week in Jordan kicked off with an impressive list of entrepreneurs, including Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIN and Joi Ito of Creative Commons. More than 300 people attended the launch in Amman, which also featured short talks about leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation from a total of 13 speakers, 5 international guests and 7 Jordanian business leaders.

Catherine Halaby, who works with the Endeavor office that hosted the Week in Jordan, said the evening was very well-received, with one audience member describing it as “therapy for Jordan."

The launch was just one 7 events held in conjunction with GEW, including two days of school sessions run by QRCE, a panel discussion on women entrepreneurs featuring Endeavor entrepreneur Dr. Widad Akrouk of Al-Masar, and a marketplace in one of the malls. In all, GEW reached an estimated 1,000 individuals, not counting the many school children who participated. This reach was even larger when accounting for media. Halaby said that between the radio broadcasts promoting the various events (spread over 10 days, in prime commute hours) and the press release placed on Maktoob, the Week, in theory,  reached all of Amman.

In addition to the official events, while Reid and the other international guests were in town the Host arranged meetings with several Jordanian entrepreneurial ventures.

Read about the launch event and more from someone who was there.