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Ages
8 - 13

Jr. Entrepreneur Challenge

Learn about business by designing a product and starting your very own e-commerce store!

Course Overview

Over 10 weeks, each student will design a product and launch their very own online store. This course is designed to be fun, easy and inspiring, while helping students develop valuable skills. The students ultimately come away with a product, a website, a sales pitch and, in most cases, their first real sales!

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AMAZING
STUDENT PRODUCTS

The Student Experience

Design
a product

1

Order your product

2

Create a web page

3

Sell your product

4

Support from Abrility

Product
Manufacturing

Online
Sales

Order
Fulfilment

Your Jr Entrepreneur Coach

Hey, I'm Mel!

 

I'm a qualified primary school teacher and a Certified Entrepreneurial Mindset Practitioner. 

 

I love watching the students in this program develop their confidence, empathy, resilience and communication. 

 

Outside of running the Jr Entrepreneur Challenge, I run my own business contracting my services as a Social Media & Marketing and Mindset coach & consultant. 

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I look forward to meeting you soon!

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Mel

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Putting ideas into practice every class

Each session follows a 5-step cycle designed to expose students to knew ideas and immediately give them the opportunity to apply those ideas themselves after class.

Developing soft skills for their future

We provide structured and personalised ways to develop soft skills. Students will actively participate in real-world projects to practice and acquire the essential skills they need for the future.

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Course details

Week

Lesson Outcomes

Skills Developed

Kick Off

Trial

Trial

Trial

Get to know each other

Learn How to start a business

Give your first business pitch

  • Confidence

  • Communication

  • Giving Feedback

Focus Area

Week

Lesson Outcomes

Skills Developed

Design Your Product

1

2

3

4

Pick an audience and find out what they like

Sketch out a few different design options

Get feedback from your audience

Improve the quality of your final design

  • Empathy

  • Rapid Prototyping

  • Handling Feedback

  • Incorporating Feedback

Focus Area

Week

Lesson Outcomes

Skills Developed

Order your product

5

Upload your digital design and submit order

  • Self Management

  • Digital Literacy

Focus Area

Week

Lesson Outcomes

Skills Developed

Create an online store

6

7

Set up a web page

Price your products

  • Digital Literacy

  • Written Communication

  • Arithmetic

Focus Area

Week

Lesson Outcomes

Skills Developed

Sell your product

8

9

10

Create flyers to distribute

Pitch your product to others

Reflect on your sales experience

  • Design

  • Confidence

  • Communication

Focus Area

Join Our Next Challenge

We run the Jr Entrepreneur Challenge periodically but we're always gathering interest, so if you'd like to be involved in our next cohort, fill out the following form and we'll be in touch shortly!

Thanks for your interest!

Frequently asked questions

Will students have their own website?

You’ll have a page on a website for the whole program. This will save you the monthly cost of running a website until you sell enough products to set up a whole website of your own.



What if I can’t make it for one of the lessons?

You can join one of my other groups for the week at a time that you’re available.



Can I make a service business?

This class is focused on creating a product and an online store. If you want to start a business where you are paid to do things for other people, please get in touch and we'll consider developing a variation of the program to support it.