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Students will leave our program with the ability to…
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Identify the power they personally possess as creators and leaders.
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Function confidently in a competitive environment.
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Sell their passion and story.
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Understand that relationship is at the core of Entrepreneurship.
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Build meaningful relationships and networks that expand their interests.
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Identify marketable solutions for real world problems, and transform those solutions into effective value proportions with real “go to market" business plans.
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Run and manage companies.
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Effectively assist organizations in solving real business problems.
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Create startups and take them to market.
“Entrepreneurship is not something we can teach the masses using innovative charts, models and fancy text books. Entrepreneurship is a mindset. Instead, we must facilitate opportunities that allow students access to entrepreneurship using learning by doing and looking to failure to force the use of creativity and autonomous action. By doing that, we give students a chance to identify their potential to think differently by transforming their mindsets as they evolve.”
- Gary Conroy, Founder & CEO of The Startup Studio’s Entrepreneurial Studies Program
Through our Learn to Start curriculum...
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...we build students that are future-proofed for a 21st century economy where unpredictability and uncertainty will be constants.
- ...we connect students to market dynamics to allow them to accomplish a high level of self-identification and transparency.
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...we build students that are self-empowered to generate in them a sense of independence, control, and free agency, all for the purpose of ultimately accomplishing lives of fulfillment and meaning.
"In the first year of our Entrepreneurial Studies Program at NBPS we have witnessed tremendous growth in the confidence and critical thinking skills of our students. They have become increasingly more confident in their ability to identify opportunities, develop and present their ideas to their peers and teachers, as well as real-world entrepreneurs from the South Florida business community. In addition, the students are learning to solve for future challenges, overcome obstacles and the fear of failure, and collaborate effectively. Unique opportunities like this truly prepare our students to meet the challenges of their futures and we are excited to see how these young men and women evolve throught the second and third years of this program as they take on more complex challenges. "
Bruce Fawcett, Head of School
ES1:
Open to Grades 9-12
This course features a fast-paced curriculum where students are always "learning by doing" as they work in teams using constant collaboration. The class will demand students learn through failure where failure is presented, not as a negative outcome, but rather as a positive movement toward real learning that advances a student’s skills in innovation and problem solving. The goal of the course is to move students away from the more traditional aspects of classroom learning and into the real world of experiential learning, so that students discover about themselves on a deeper level and begin to identify the traits they possess, ultimately realizing the entrepreneur within. This is something The Startup Studio likes to call "Learn to Start."
Our curriculum focuses on five key pillars:
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Story - Participants are constantly challenged to tap into their own story and realize its amazing power as we look to ensure they are understanding the importance of finding their own unique paths.
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Team - Participants problem solve in constant team environments so as to experience, learn, and understand the power of effective collaboration for each student as an individual.
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Build - Participants explore multiple processes of modeling a creative thought from ideation to execution but with the focus always on the builder and never the methodology.
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Pivot - Participants use critical thinking to move from ideation to actual solution and value proposition understanding that failure is the best learning tool they can use. Students use constant feedback so as to learn the importance and power of market data to create relevant change.
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Pitch - We explore the true art of effective communication and the importance of selling yourself through self branding to understand the power of self and the power of relationships.
Students end their year pitching their companies to real investors. Our top five teams go to a Final Pitch Event hosted by one of our industry partners where they compete for Best Startup in front of a real VC panel.
“I didn’t realize how important the things that we learned in his class were until I launched a company that I conceptualized in his class into the real market. I then was able to take everything I had learned from the class and grow my business, King Drone Services LLC, into a profitable company. This course was truly life changing for me.”
- Ryan King, Student and Founder & CEO of King Drone Services LLC
ES2:
Prerequisite: ES1
Students apply the skills and processes learned in Level 1 to real companies in the community. As young entrepreneurs, the class will spend much of the school year assisting various CEOs and Business Owners to solve real problems within their organizations, and by doing so, they will get first-hand knowledge of what it means to own, operate, and manage businesses while applying their entrepreneurial skills to solving real business problems. The remainder of their time will be invested in continuing to build their companies started in Level 1 or launching something new.
"I wish there were more programs like this in the school system as this is knowledge that teaches students something that is actually useful in the real world. I think many students or business owners can greatly benefit from this amazing program. I know if this program were available to me when I was a student or even now, I would be a better entrepreneur and owner. I really had no expectations of this program. However, I was very impressed with what the program had to offer and how knowledgeable those students were."
- Nato Hureuse, Owner of Turning Heads Barber
ES3:
Prerequisite: ES 1 & 2
Students must apply all the skills, failures, and processes learned in Level 1 and 2, and challenge their entrepreneurial mindsets by putting it all to work in a completely autonomous environment. They will be given access to use and manage all the resources built into the program to bring a startup company to market. Students will have access to a full network of market resources and professional mentorship to build a startup capable of competing at a local, state, and possibly even national level and will be responsible to execute a launch to market penetration focused on revenue generation and profitability.
"I was happy to help with the growth of the students and opened our doors to the program. What I didn't expect was to work with such an empowered group of students that not only learned something from participating in this project, but helped me to wrap my arms around real, workable solutions to a big challenge facing our company. These students presented some well thought out ideas to shift our sales mix in favor of our manufactured items away from our distributed items. And that was the challenge! I never expected that they could do what our own sales people could not do: come up with great ideas to solve our problem. I was both shocked and very impressed with this program."
- Tony Lahnston, COO of Tropical Foods
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