Delivering Entrepreneurship Intensives to Students: Pitfalls & Successes

Delivering Entrepreneurship Intensives to High School Students: Pitfalls & Successes

PART OF SPARK FEST 2021 - FIND MY SPARK

Are you looking at introducing or improving your entrepreneurship delivery within your school?

Join Tech School experts as we discuss what we have learnt delivering entrepreneurship intensives (2-day sprints) to high school students throughout Victoria.

Banyule-Nillumbik and Whittlesea Tech Schools have been delivering an entrepreneurship program to Victorian Government schools for FREE over 2-day intensives to give students key entrepreneurial skills. Our Introduction to Entrepreneurship program has been targeted to students who are embarking on their entrepreneurship journey. We take them from ideation, value proposition, solution design and pitching ie the complete cycle to test a business idea.

In a 1 hour session we will cover:

What is the difference between Entrepreneurship and Enterprise thinking
What we learnt and how we iterated the program using student and teacher feedback
The tools we've used to deliver our intensives: online, offline and hybrid.

ABOUT FIND MY SPARK 2021

Hi Friends, Spark Festival 2021 will be the BIGGEST yet and the place where you can SPARK your big idea, your business, your career, and your networks.

From October 13-28, join thousands of other ambitious Australians looking to learn and connect, to supercharge their creativity and uncover their purpose at Spark. Over 100+ events, many (but not all!) of them online, and most of them free.

Over two big weeks, you'll find events and activities from across the Australian startup, innovation and business community. Covering everything from getting started to going global, from powering up your digital marketing to perfecting your pitch: you will find your spark at Spark in 2021!

You're in great company and we can’t wait to see old and new friends this year!

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PRESENTERS

AISHA DANI is currently a Program Manager - Entrepreneurship at Melbourne Polytechnic's Tech Schools (Banyule-Nillumbik & Whittlesea), and is a co-founder of Sistrv8 - Australia's only business incubator for Muslim women with an award winning startup pre-accelerator program. Aisha has experience as an intrapreneur and entrepreneur, startups and operational scale-ups. Her industry experience ranges from metallurgy, horticulture, nanotechnology, ICT, digital marketing, VET training, high stakes assessment delivery, and recreational vehicle manufacturing. As an expert in residence at the Tech Schools, her current focus is to scale-up the delivery of the DET funded entrepreneurial program to high ability students throughout Victorian government secondary colleges. She is also a committee contributor to the national blockchain roadmap and a Lean Launchpad Educator.

SHANG WANG is a STEM educator at Whittlesea Tech School who develops and facilitates programs for high school students using design thinking as an inquiry framework. He is also the Founder of Tinker Steps, a 3D printing service designed specifically for teachers and students.

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The Tech School entrepreneurship program is funded part of the Department of Education and Training’s Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series, available to and specifically targeted at high ability students from years 8-12 from Victorian government schools. The program uses industry tools to challenge and extend students, exposing them to new experiences outside the typical school curriculum.