Teen Venture Camp
Build Your Own Venture & Be Your Own Boss
Camp details
June 23 – 27, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Optional Explore WPI! Activities, 4-5 p.m.
@ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609-2280
This WPI "Teens Discovering Entrepreneurship" day camp is a fun, intensive, highly interactive week of workshops, games, mental challenges, and talks that will keep teens busy, engaged, and focused on the task of getting to know their strengths, passions, interests, and abilities to create their own business or social venture based on their ideas and passions.
ONLY 21 SEATS REMAIN (40 TOTAL ADMITTED)
Registration is required. Please register early to guarantee a seat. Walk-ins admitted based on available space.
COST: $295 (assignable, but not refundable - with exception for camp cancellation)
Camp fee includes all supplies and learning materials, break snacks and lunches, draw-string backpack, notebook full of resources, t-shirt and frameable certificate upon graduation.
Some eligibility scholarships are available. Contact: Gina Betti at gbetti@wpi.edu or 508-831-5761.
Registration Instructions:
- Fill in the online registration form and submit payment via credit card.
- Download the Participant Release Form and bring to registration on Day 1.
- Parent information and emergency contact page.
- Map of the WPI campus (PDF)
What you will learn:
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Business and Social Venture Development Skills
- Finding business or social venture ideas that fit your personality, strengths, abilities, and limitations
- Recognizing business and social venture opportunities
- Validating business and social venture ideas
- Defining a market and customers for your business or social venture idea
- Setting goals and milestones in creating a business or social venture
- Business and Social Venture Legal Structure
- Accounting Basics – learning to set up basic accounting for your venture
- Marketing and sales skills necessary to launch your venture
- Exploring types and sources of funding to launch your venture
- Will I need a partner, team, or will I be self-employed?
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Entrepreneurial Skill Development
- Networking Skills
- Elevator and Sales Pitch Skills
- Designing a Web Site
- Creativity Exercises and Games
- Naming a Business
- Designing an Effective Advertisement
- Designing a Business Card
- Negotiating skills
Agenda
| Monday, June 23, 2008 | All About You and Your Entrepreneurial Potential |
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8:00-8:20 | Registration check-in at Campus Center Main Lobby, then group walk to Higgins Laboratories: Room 116 |
8:30-9:00 | Wake Up and Stretch Your Imagination! Spirited Icebreakers & Thinking Out Loud, HL:116 |
9:00-11:00 | Social Ventures: Ideas, Opportunities, and Funding - Rob Alexander of Youth Ventures, HL:116 |
11:00-12:00 | ME? An Entrepreneur - Darrell Potosnak, HL:116 |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch at Campus Center Cafeteria – lower level |
1:15-3:55 | Setting Goals and Milestones - Dr. Sharon Wulf, Washburn Shops: Room 229 |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
4:00-5:00 | Optional Explore WPI! Activities |
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Structuring a Business and Setting up an Accounting System |
8:00 | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby to check in, then group walk to Salisbury Laboratories: Room 104 |
8:15-8:55 | Entrepreneurial Skills Development - Tune Your Entrepreneurial Engine with the Right Tools!, SL:104 |
9:00-11:00 | Business Accounting - Darrell Potosnak, SL:104 |
11:00-12:00 | Creativity Challenges - SL:104 |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch at Campus Center Cafeteria – lower level |
1:15-3:15 | Got the Stuff of LLP, LLC, or Sole? - Attorney Michael Refolo of Mirick O'Connell, HL:116 |
3:15-3:55 | Creativity Challenges, HL:116 |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
4:00-5:00 | Optional Explore WPI! Activities |
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | Marketing and Finding the Funding |
8:00 | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby to check in, then group walk to Atwater Kent Room 223 |
8:15-8:55 | Creativity Challenges, AK:233 |
9:00-11:00 | Marketing on a Shoestring - Barbara Finer, AK:223 |
11:00-12:00 | Entrepreneurial Skills Development – Elevator Pitch, AK:223 |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch at Campus Center Cafeteria – lower level |
1:15-3:55 | Finding the Funding for Youth Ventures, HL:218 |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
4:00-5:00 | Optional Explore WPI! Activities |
| Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Build a Web Site, Create Effective Advertising, Design Business Card |
8:00 | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby to check in then group walk to Higgins Laboratories Room 230 |
8:15-8:55 | Entrepreneurial Skill Development - More Tools for Your Toolkit, HL:230 |
9:00-11:55 | Tools and Techniques to Build Your Venture Web Site - Eric Tapley of 3000K, HL:230 |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch at Campus Center Cafeteria – lower level |
1:15-3:55 | Great Ads & Biz Cards – Carol Ranson, HL:230 |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
4:00-5:00 | Last Day for Explore WPI! Activities |
| Friday, June 27, 2008 | Networking, Killer Negotiating Skills, The Venture Plan, and Graduation |
8:00 | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby check in and head upstairs to the Hagglund Room |
8:00-8:55 | Networking Skills - a Hands-on Workshop - Dr. Rockie Blunt of Blunt Consulting Group, CC:Hagglund Room |
10:00-12:00 | Want It? Let's Negotiate! - Moshe Cohen of The Negotiating Table CC:Hagglund Room |
12:00-1:00 | Barbecue at the Campus Center Patio (Hagglund Room if raining) |
1:15-3:15 | All the Little Pieces: Tying Your Venture Plan Together, CC:Hagglund Room: |
3:15-3:55 | Award Ceremony in Alden Hall |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
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