Pillars of Student Success |
Entrepreneurship: High |
Financial Literacy: Minimal |
Work Readiness: High |
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Program Implementation | Program Grade-Level |
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Classroom Based | Grades 6-8 |
Program Concepts | Program Skills |
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Business, consumer feedback, design, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial characteristics, funding, innovation, innovative, investor, market, market research, need, product, passionate, persistent, persuasive, pitch, presentation visuals, product, product sketches, prototype, risk-taker, self-confident, self-motivated, service, speaking skills, story, surveys, target market, team player | Analyze an example performance, analyze data from a variety of media sources, applying terms, brainstorming, collecting data, creating a model, creative thinking, communicating information through design, deduction, empathy, evaluating alternatives, group brainstorming, group presentation, group work, individual brainstorming, labeling an illustration, listening, logical reasoning, memory recall and matching, presenting ideas, problem solving, processing data from media, self-evaluation, synthesize data, teamwork |
Students observe the relationship between entrepreneurs, their businesses, and the products and services they offer. They are introduced to well-known entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs and examine the characteristics that they share. Finally, they take an entrepreneurial characteristics inventory to assess their own entrepreneurial abilities and interests.
Students identify markets and needs that entrepreneurial products and services answer. They examine young entrepreneurs who have successfully identified a market and need and then create a new product to meet that need. Students work in teams to brainstorm current needs within different product or service categories.
Students learn about generating innovative ideas, while keeping in mind market and need. They examine cutting-edge innovative new products before brainstorming their own product or service ideas. Working in teams, students use graphic organizers to capture brainstormed ideas.
Students learn about product design and the prototype process. Each student creates a sketch of his or her product or service to show its features and then explains its purpose.
Students learn about the importance of obtaining market feedback about new product and service ideas. They examine types of survey questions and then develop their own. They then determine whether the survey provides useful feedback about the product.
Students complete their pitch deck and learn to deliver a pitch presentation with the intent of attracting investors. In a mock competition, teams pitch their product idea to a guest judge or judges who award the winning team(s) with ceremonial start-up funds.
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