iHeartSTEM Teen Business Incubator
Are you a 9th or 10th grader with big ideas, a passion for innovation, or dreams of starting your own business? You've come to the right place! With this program you will learn to discover and validate startup ideas using real-world frameworks used by successful founders.
Gain the skills to pitch your business and learn to apply for startup accelerator programs.
Why Join?
Gain skills from a successful teen founder
Enhance your college applications
Bring your ideas to life with expert guidance
Develop the confidence and mindset to turn ideas into reality and create real-world impact
Program Details:
Virtual Format: Participate from anywhere
Schedule: 4 weekdays during July / August
Cost: FREE
Eligibility: Open exclusively to students in grades 8th, 9th and 10th
Agenda / Curriculum
Day 1 - Discover how real-world problems become startup ideas. Take home exercise to discover the problem you want to solve
Day 2 - Who are you building for? Deep dive into the problem you identified. Map the user journey, create a persona. Assignment: Methods to add clarity to your problem
Day 3 - Explore Solutions, Testing your solutions, learn about “MVP/MLP”. How to test without build without spending a single dollar.
Day 4 - Thinking like a Founder. Learn about lean canvas. Competition, stakeholders, customers, moats, scale.
Day 5 - Sharing and communicating your vision. Pitching to incubators, accelerators and investors. How to grow from here.
Invitation to go Further : Less than 5% participants get a 1:1 session with the teen founder and CEO of SipSafe and join a network of students building the future.