About Business Incubator
Business Incubator follows the INCubatoredu for High School curriculum. The program blends entrepreneurship lessons with an experiential approach to traditional business subjects.This program offers students an authentic entrepreneurship experience. In the year long course, students have the opportunity to create and fully develop their own product or service. Real entrepreneurs and business experts serve as volunteer coaches and mentors guiding student teams through the processes of developing hypotheses about a business concept, testing those hypotheses, adapting, and continually learning and improving. This cycle of experimentation is combined with foundational business content such as marketing and finance.
Students Learn from Authentic Experiences
Students demonstrate their learning through explanation, interpretation and application of content to their team’s real business idea. Principles and process from the LEAN movement help students test their thinking. From concept to Minimum Viable Product to Pitch, students are hypothesizing, testing, adapting and learning. Importantly, they work and learn in teams..
Students Learn From Experts
These include volunteer coaches, mentors, and the classroom teacher.
Coaches provide authentic business expertise in a specific area. They come into the classroom for a short period of time (2-4 days) to provide all students with a real-world context for a specific curricular area. The coach and classroom teacher plan and present together. The coach’s focus is on curricular content, not war stories.
Mentors are assigned to one team and follow them through the entire process providing students with feedback and encouragement.
The classroom teacher is a certified teacher that manages the class and volunteers, as well as provides continuity.
Students Monetize Their PassionsCreate your own job: Students who love metalworking, coding, doing…can make their own career, their own pathway to success. INCubatoredu creates a foundational experience for high school students who will study entrepreneurship and business in college as well as for those students who enter the workforce after graduating from high school. The course is designed for Junior level students.
More information about the curriculum can be found here.
More information for volunteers can be found here.
Students Learn from Authentic Experiences
Students demonstrate their learning through explanation, interpretation and application of content to their team’s real business idea. Principles and process from the LEAN movement help students test their thinking. From concept to Minimum Viable Product to Pitch, students are hypothesizing, testing, adapting and learning. Importantly, they work and learn in teams..
Students Learn From Experts
These include volunteer coaches, mentors, and the classroom teacher.
Coaches provide authentic business expertise in a specific area. They come into the classroom for a short period of time (2-4 days) to provide all students with a real-world context for a specific curricular area. The coach and classroom teacher plan and present together. The coach’s focus is on curricular content, not war stories.
Mentors are assigned to one team and follow them through the entire process providing students with feedback and encouragement.
The classroom teacher is a certified teacher that manages the class and volunteers, as well as provides continuity.
Students Monetize Their PassionsCreate your own job: Students who love metalworking, coding, doing…can make their own career, their own pathway to success. INCubatoredu creates a foundational experience for high school students who will study entrepreneurship and business in college as well as for those students who enter the workforce after graduating from high school. The course is designed for Junior level students.
More information about the curriculum can be found here.
More information for volunteers can be found here.