Description
Business Innovation Journey™ Hosted
$200/student up to a maximum of $1500/classroom
The Montessori Foundation is proud to be collaborating with the team at Rising Innovator to develop a range of Montessori-inspired economic and business education programs to mentor, inspire, and support young innovators and entrepreneurs.
Enroll your class in our Business Innovation Journey™, an online adventure in which they will build actual businesses around their interests. Working in collaboration with other students around their own ages, they will be led through the processes that actual entrepreneurs use to identify opportunities and innovate.
This 15-week course teaches the key competencies of entrepreneurship:
- Creativity and Problem Solving, the creative skills and impulses to identify opportunities and solve them.
- Teamwork, a vital skill for success in any venture
- Entrepreneurial Mindset, such as building character and perseverance
- Leadership, including such skills as planning, organizing, self-analysis, management of self and others
- Empathy and Ethics, including how understanding people can help turn their problems into sales
- Market Analysis, including defining the market for a product or service and potential the competition
- Marketing Strategy, learning how to best reach your customers
- Finances, such as understanding profitability, cost/price, planning and management, and financial reports
- Launching a Startup, we will teach the Lean Startup Method to help the children prototype and test their ideas
- Presentation, success doesn’t just come from having a great idea, but also requires clear and effective communication
It is structured to inspire, educate, mentor, and support young entrepreneurs with the tools and information designed to help them start and run a successful business. Interested in learning more or enrolling?
- Downloadable materials for the complete 15-session course, including power points, instructor notes, and handouts.
- Hosted on our online learning management platform
- Taught by you on your schedule
- Includes our online accounting tool to help teens track their money
- Additional cases and resources
- Includes our online accounting tool to help teens track their money
