Teen Venture Program
Build Your Own Venture & Be Your Own Boss
June 23-27, 2008 at WPI
Program 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" program 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, interests, and abilities to create their own business or social venture based on their ideas and passions.
7 SEATS REMAIN.
First-come first-served Monday, June 23 at 8:00 AM registration.
Day-Program only: $295
Stay on campus: $570
(Registration fees are assignable to another person, but not refundable - except for program cancellation.)
Fees includes all supplies and learning materials, break snacks and lunches, draw-string sportpack, notebook full of resources, t-shirt and frameable certificate upon graduation.
All eligibility scholarships have been granted.
For students interested in a 24/7 experience: overnight accommodations are available. (Parents are welcome, too!) The extra $275 for the week covers supervision, dorm room, linens, pillow, towels, breakfast, dinner, and snacks for four nights and five days, two per room. Check-in will be Monday, June 23rd at 7:00 AM. If you are interested in the overnight stay, but have already registered, please contact Gina Betti at 508-831-5761 or by email at gbetti@wpi.edu to register.
Registration Instructions:
- Online registration is closed. Remaining seats will be granted on a first-come-first served basis on Monday, June 23, 2008 at 8:00AM in WPI's Campus Center Main lobby. Payment can be made by check or credit card.
- Fill in the online registration form and submit payment via credit card.
- Download and print the Participant Release Form, have a parent or guardian sign it and bring it to registration. You cannot participate without it. If you forget to bring it, your parent or guardian may fax a copy to 508-831-6352
- Download, print and keep the parent information and emergency contact page.
- Map of the WPI campus (PDF)
What teens 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
| Teen Venture Program Agenda | |
|---|---|
| Monday, June 23, 2008 | About You and Your Entrepreneurial Potential |
8:00-8:20 AM | 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 PM | 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 if not staying for exciting, hands-on lab demos |
4:00-5:00 Optional | Explore WPI!: The Mind and Guts of Robots, Journey Sponsored by Robotics Engineering Laboratory |
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Structuring a Business and Setting up an Accounting System |
8:00 AM | 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 PM | 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 if not staying for exciting, hands-on lab demos |
4:00-5:00 Optional | Explore WPI!: Red Hot, Really Cool Fire Demos, Sponsored by Fire Protection Engineering Laboratory |
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | Marketing and Finding the Funding |
8:00 AM | 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 PM | 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 if not staying for exciting, hands-on lab demos |
4:00-5:00 Optional | Explore WPI!: BetaTest New Computer Games, Sponsored by Interactive Media & Game Development |
| Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Build a Web Site, Create Effective Advertising, Design Business Card |
8:00 AM | 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 PM | 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 if not staying for exciting, hands-on lab demos |
4:00-5:00 Optional | Explore WPI!: Please Do Touch Our Million Dollar Prototyping Machines to Manufacture a Key Ring Fob |
| Friday, June 27, 2008 | Networking, Killer Negotiating Skills, The Venture Plan, and Graduation |
8:00 AM | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby to check in, then head upstairs to the Hagglund Room |
8:00-8:55 | Improve Introducing Yourself to the World with Our Networking Skills Games - CC:Hagglund Room |
9:00-9:55 | Creativity Challenge 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 PM | Barbecue on the Campus Center Patio |
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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