Students Build Real Businesses
SEMESTER 1: Start A Business (Entrepreneurship 1)
Recommended for grades 11 or 12
A semester long course offering an authentic entrepreneurship experience as students develop their own product or service startup. See what students are saying about this class! Want to know if this class is right for you? Check out this link.
Problem-Solution Identification | Student teams explore, pivot, iterate and develop resilience as they work to solve problems they care about.
Customer and Idea Exploration | Real entrepreneurs and industry experts serve as volunteer coaches and mentors guiding student teams through the process of idea validation.
Pitch for Real Funding | Student teams pitch to gain investment funds in a final shark-tank style pitch event at the EPIC Campus in May. Winners will be awarded seed money to begin their business.
SEMESTER 2: Manage A Business (Entrepreneurship 2)
Recommended for grades 11 or 12
If students would like to operate their business, this second course provides students the opportunity to launch and gain traction for their business.
Company Formation | Establishing a legal entity and developing three areas: customer acquisition, production and business processes as it suits their business.
Market Traction | The experience models a real-life start-up accelerator focused on developing teams through mentorship, education, connections, and accountability to launch a company.
Iterate and Scale | The course transitions businesses founded in Entrepreneurship 1 into sustainable, functioning ventures.