Introduction to Entrepreneurship

High School

9th-12th

grade classrooms

4-40hrs

of material

12 modules

that can be purchased individually

Interested in bringing this course to your classroom?

About the Course

9th-12th​

grade classrooms

4-40hrs

of material

12 modules

that can be purchased individually

Interested in bringing this course to your classroom?

Students work as the CEO of an autonomous car company and are guided through every step of the entrepreneurial journey from problem definition to product distribution.*

*Standards-aligned in all 50 states.

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Course Modules

Topic 1: The lesson explores what artificial intelligence is and then dives into the course with an introduction to what problem statements are and why it is essential to create them.

Topic 2: A workshop-type class where students will use all they have learned to create a problem statement and five hypotheses for their autonomous car company.

Topic 3: Students will spend this lesson presenting their problem statements for their autonomous car company.

Topic 1: This lesson is an introduction to customer validation interviews, what they are, and how to conduct them.

Topic 2: This lesson provides students with an opportunity to test their interviewing skills, problem statements, and hypotheses.

Topic 3: Students will spend this lesson practicing their interviewing skills and testing their problem statements and hypotheses.

Topic 4: This lesson aims to provide the students with more background information on autonomous cars and provide them with experts’ opinions.

Topic 5: The students will spend this lesson turning qualitative information into quantitative information.

Topic 6: A deeper dive into turning the qualitative data from the student’s customer interviews into quantitative data.

Topic 1: This lesson will help students understand the importance of a good market and how to define their market.

Topic 2: This lesson will help students understand the how to calculate a market’s size using two methods (Top-down and Bottom-up)

Topic 3: Workshop on market sizing using the jigsaw method

Topic 1: This lesson introduces what sampling is and the different types of sampling.

Topic 2: Students will learn how to calculate sample size and determine the population that their company is serving and the sample size they require for their customer interviews.

Topic 3: In this lesson, students will complete two portfolio documents that they should submit to you.

Topic 1: In this lesson, students will learn the goals of market research surveys and what makes an effective survey.

Topic 2: In this lesson, students will learn the best practices for building surveys in Google Forms.

Topic 3: In this lesson, students are tasked to design a survey for their target customers.

Topic 1: At the end of the lesson, students will have a greater knowledge of the benefits of cleaning data and an introductory understanding of potential data cleaning methods.

Topic 2: This lesson promotes critical thinking by challenging the students to figure out data cleaning methods in Google Sheets and try to perform them on their own.

Topic 3: The main objective is for students to identify all of the different dirty data types within the shared dirty dataset and then clean the dataset entirely.

Topic 4: The students will be prompted to think about the effects that missing data can have on data analysis.

Topic 5: Students will be able to identify the relevance of the missing data and its type.

Topic 1: This class will introduce students to data manipulation, how to organize data in a spreadsheet and how to use inbuilt functions in Google Sheets.

Topic 2: This class will introduce students to visualization, how to build charts in a spreadsheet, and how to use inbuilt functions in Google Sheets.

Topic 3: This class is a continuation of data visualization.

Topic 4: In teams of two, students will analyze a data set and create a short presentation using the functions and charts that they have learned.

Topic 1: Understand what a customer persona is, why they are important to organizations, and how to create one based on the product of interest.

Topic 2: In this lesson, students apply their own customer personas to identify potential customers for their product

Topic 3: Understand what clustering is, why organizations use clustering, the benefits of it and how to implement clustering.

Topic 4: Become familiar with the concept of K-Means clustering and algorithms.

Topic 5: In this lesson, students will use our platform to design a K-Means clustering project of their own

Topic 1: This lesson introduces the concept of customer lifetime value (LTV) and illustrates a use case.

Topic 2: Students perform their own estimations for 3 and 5 year lifetime value of their target customers using a linear regression model.

Topic 3: This lesson introduces the concept of customer acquisition cost (CAC) and why it is so crucial to marketing success.

Topic 4: Students estimate the customer acquisition cost of their target customers using a linear regression model.

Topic 5: Students calculate the ratio of customer lifetime value and customer acquisition costs to determine the success and sustainability of their marketing.

Topic 1: Students explore what is a brand and the value that brands provide

Topic 2: Students are tasked with defining the key characteristics of their company’s brand, utilising their customer segmentation

Topic 3: Introduces students to brand perception analysis and the use of natural language processing (NLPS)

Topic 4: Discussion on how brands may use NLPS to scrape data from the web for brand sentiment analysis

Workshop I: Using natural language processing to design a sentiment analysis project from a selected dataset

Workshop II: Using natural language processing to design a sentiment analysis project from a selected dataset

Topic 1: Introduction to defining KPIs (key performance indicators)

Topic 2: Methods to effectively track and analyze KPI data

Topic 3: Introduction to digital advertising

Topic 4: Defining an appropriate target audience for digital advertisements

Topic 5: Effective budgeting for digital marketing campaigns

Exercise: Building a Facebook ad campaign

Topic 1: Introduction to design thinking

Topic 2: Using principles of design thinking to test, iterate, and build a user-centric product

Topic 3: Introduction to post-purchase customer behavior and the importance of continuous product iteration

Topic 4: In this lesson, students learn the connection between sales and product re-design

Topic 5: In this lesson, students will explore advanced focus group techniques and product use-cases

IN THE CLASSROOM

Riley High School

Ms. Tiffany Reddick

CTE Teacher for the Entrepreneurship and Supply Chain and Logistics Pathway

Head of the Business Department

South Bend Community School Corporation, Indiana

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