Entrepreneurship is the process of developing and offering a new product, process, or service that looks at a problem and turns it into an opportunity and solution. Entrepreneurship can be driven by a profit motive or a service motive or both.
Our young innovators are interested in everything from global poverty to personal security.
As nurturers of these 10-18 year-olds, we see our job as creating the conditions to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets, regardless of the content of the venture (though we do deeply believe in ethical questioning and due diligence).
We’ve discovered key conditions for entrepreneurial thinking: inside-out/outside-in, opportunity thinking, and communication.
Inside-out/outside-in: Schools all too often are fortresses that shelter their inmates from the real world. At IncSchool we strive to bring the outside world into our learning space and send our innovators out into non-school creating spaces. Nothing teaches a child what entrepreneurship is faster and better than working with an entrepreneur: we bring startups, large companies, and experts into our school, and we send our students and staff out to Startup Weekends, conferences, networking events, hackathons, lectures, Meetups, and more.
Opportunity Thinking: Students need a process for seeing opportunities: for defining problems, and generating solutions. They need to use this process over and over again until it becomes second nature. At The Incubator School, we deploy human centered design as the process through which students become opportunity thinkers. [link to HCD Tools]
Communication: Students need to be adept written, visual, and oral communicators. They need to know how to present problems and solutions in compelling ways: extracting information from a variety of sources; marshaling ethos, logos, and pathos; deploying facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples; using a variety of styles, both formal and informal; deploying humor; speaking confidently and effectively to people of all levels of knowledge and expertise. Language Arts at IncSchool focuses strongly on building communication competencies, and we give students every opportunity possible to speak to each other, staff, visitors, the media, the business community, etc.
You can find the details of how we organize and launch Entrepreneurship under Toolkits.
Entrepreneurship is the process of developing and offering a new product, process, or service that looks at a problem and turns it into an opportunity and solution. Entrepreneurship can be driven by a profit motive or a service motive or both.
Our young innovators are interested in everything from global poverty to personal security.
As nurturers of these 10-18 year-olds, we see our job as creating the conditions to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets, regardless of the content of the venture (though we do deeply believe in ethical questioning and due diligence).
We’ve discovered key conditions for entrepreneurial thinking: inside-out/outside-in, opportunity thinking, and communication.
Schools all too often are fortresses that shelter their inmates from the real world. At IncSchool we strive to bring the outside world into our learning space and send our innovators out into non-school creating spaces. Nothing teaches a child what entrepreneurship is faster and better than working with an entrepreneur: we bring startups, large companies, and experts into our school, and we send our students and staff out to Startup Weekends, conferences, networking events, hackathons, lectures, Meetups, and more.
Students need a process for seeing opportunities: for defining problems, and generating solutions. They need to use this process over and over again until it becomes second nature. At The Incubator School, we deploy human centered design as the process through which students become opportunity thinkers. [link to HCD Tools]
Students need to be adept written, visual, and oral communicators. They need to know how to present problems and solutions in compelling ways: extracting information from a variety of sources; marshaling ethos, logos, and pathos; deploying facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples; using a variety of styles, both formal and informal; deploying humor; speaking confidently and effectively to people of all levels of knowledge and expertise. Language Arts at IncSchool focuses strongly on building communication competencies, and we give students every opportunity possible to speak to each other, staff, visitors, the media, the business community, etc.
You can find the details of how we organize and launch Entrepreneurship under Toolkits.
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