Teen Venture Clinic
One of many fun challenges throughout the program. And the winners are......
Just as teens can gain competitive advantages at a sports camp, so can teens gain competitive advantages with entrepreneurship skills.
At WPI's Teen Venture Clinic - Fall Series, students learn that entrepreneurship is not a spectator sport. Acquiring an entrepreneurial mindset or starting a business or social venture takes good coaching, a game plan, teamwork, mental and physical fitness, and knowing the competition.
This WPI "Teens Discovering Entrepreneurship" program is a fun, hands-on, highly interactive series of workshops. Through learning to create a business or social venture based on their own interests, ideas, and initiative, teens begin building the traits necessary to be more entrepreneurial. Workshops are designed to connect young adults to entrepreneurship through self-discovery and team building exercises, mental challenges and talks by engaging business professionals.
Young adults possess the ingredients for entrepreneurial success. We simply teach them to surface and leverage their strengths and to recognize, accept, and diminish their weaknesses through the right partnerships. Participating in this entrepreneurship program is sure to help students develop character, confidence, leadership, and creativity as well as to help them recognize opportunities to add value not only to the community but to their own futures.
Bookmark this site and stay tuned for the exciting new program news on on how to sign up for individual teen venture workshops and clinics that will begin this Fall.
Registration Instructions:
This rigorous, but fun and educational program requires genuine interest in learning how to start a business or social venture, maturity, respect, attention span, imagination, willingness to participate in creative challenges, and team player mentality. The following application process will filter students that do not meet the criteria.
Checklist tool
Keep your application process organized. Download this helpful checklist.
Pre-registration - start step 1 and 2 as soon as possible
Use any of the following delivery methods for 1 and 2 below. In each email or letter, it is important to include your name, telephone number, email, and home address in the event of more than one person having the same name.
Send letters to: Gina Betti, WPI Teen Ventures, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280.
Send email to: gbetti@wpi.edu - with required Subject in email subject line.
Hand deliver on the WPI campus: Washburn Shops building, Room 215. Our campus is located at 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA. Telephone: 508-831-5761.
Step 1: Ask a teacher, counselor, or employer to fill in a Statement of Recommendation. (If emailing, put "WPI-TVC Recommendation" in the subject line. They can email the form or you can.)
Step 2: Mail or email a paragraph on why you want to attend this program. (If emailing, put "WPI-TVC Paragraph" in the subject line.)
Important: Wait for our confirmation before proceeding to Registration.
Registration
Please do not register until you receive confirmation from our staff. Payment may be made by credit card (online or by telephone) or by check. Scholarships for school lunch program recipients will be available.
1. Secure Online Credit Card Option: Fill in the online registration form
2. Mail Option: Download the paper form and mail with a check or call 508-831-5075 to pay by credit card.
Items for parents to print and retain
What students will learn:
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Business and Social Venture Development Skills
- Discover business or social venture ideas that fit your personality, interests, and abilities
- Recognize business and social venture opportunities within your own community
- Validate business and social venture ideas
- Know when to partner, team, or stay self-employed
- Define your market and customers
- Set goals and milestones
- Learn about legal structure
- Learn to set up basic accounting
- Where to look for venture funding
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Entrepreneurial Skill Development
- Networking
- Elevator Pitch
- Creativity
- Negotiating
- Choosing an effective business name
- Design an effective PowerPoint Presentation
- Design an effective web site
- Design an effective advertisement
- Design a business card
- Marketing and sales
| NOTE: This is the summer agenda. The fall agenda will be posted. | |
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| Monday, June 21 | About You and Your Entrepreneurial Potential |
8:00-8:20 a.m. | Registration at Campus Center Main Lobby |
8:30-9:00 | Wake Up and Stretch Your Imagination! |
9:00-10:55 | Social Ventures: Ideas, Opportunities, and Funding |
11:00-11:55 | Entrepreneurship Skills |
12:00-12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00-2:30 | Vision Boarding - Creative Brainstorming |
2:30-3:30 | Entrepreneurship Skills - Visioning |
3:30-3:55 | Creativity Challenge - Seeing Things in a Different Light |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
| Tuesday, June 22 | Structuring a Business and Setting up an Accounting System |
8:00 a.m. | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby |
8:15-8:55 | Entrepreneurship Skills |
9:00-10:55 | A Legal Framework for Your Venture |
11:00-11:55 | Creativity Challenges |
12:00-12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00-2:55 | Basic Accounting Systems for New Ventures |
3:00-3:55 | Entrepreneurship Skills |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
| Wednesday, June 23 | Marketing and Finding the Funding |
8:00 a.m. | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby |
8:15-8:55 | Creativity Challenges |
9:00-10:55 | Marketing - Who are your Customers and How do you Reach Them? |
11:00-11:55 | Entrepreneurship Skills - Graphics for Ads, Biz Cards, Web and Presentations |
12:00-12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00-2:55 | Small Business Development Center Representative |
3:00-3:55 | Creativity Challenges |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
| Thursday, June 24 | Graphic Design for Web Site, Ad, Business Card, and PowerPoint Presentations |
8:00 a.m. | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby |
8:05-8:55 | Entrepreneurship Skills |
9:00-11:55 | New Venture Web Site Basics |
12:00-12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00-2:55 | Great PowerPoint Presentations |
3:00-3:55 | Graphic Design Skills |
4:00 | Campus Center Lobby for departure |
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| Friday, June 25 | Networking, Killer Negotiating Skills, The Venture Plan, Graduation |
8:00 a.m. | Meet at Campus Center Main Lobby |
8:05-9:55 | Entrepreneurship Skills |
10:00-11:55 | Wait! Wait! Let's Negotiate!! |
12:00-12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00-3:00 | Assembling the Venture Plan Parts - Instructions Required |
3:15-3:55 | Presentations and Award Ceremony |
4:00 | Adjourn |
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