Congratulations to the 2015 Kidpreneur Award Winners Overall winner WILD KARD, A.B. Patterson College, Qld These kidpreneurs generated more than $1000 profit selling custom printed t-shirts for their school camp. These kidpreneurs win a Pavillon All-in-One Desktop Computer generously donated by our partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise Runner up MOVIE MADNESS, Billanook College, Vic These kidpreneurs [...]
One of Australia’s most vocal proponents of fostering entrepreneurial development says generational change is needed if the National Innovation and Science Agenda is to succeed. Founder and Chairman of Club Kidpreneur Creel Price says, “It’s entrepreneurial thinking that drives the world forward in leaps and bounds, instead of waiting for incremental change to produce anything [...]
On Tuesday November 17th, five Kidpreneurs proudly showcased their businesses at the Gold Coast Demo Day to an audience of 260 people. Hosted by Bond University the Demo Day drew together entrepreneur education providers who are working in South East Queensland to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs. Club Kidpreneur featured as the primary school [...]
It is both a thrill and honour to have joined the Club Kidpreneur Foundation at what is an exciting time for entrepreneurship in Australia. I first learnt of the Club Kidpreneur Foundation at a Business Chicks conference I attended in Uluru at which our Founder Creel Price was speaking. I had only just finished sharing [...]
It's been claimed that in 2002 George W Bush said to the French President Jacques Chirac; “The problem with the French is they don’t have a word for Entrepreneur”. Well, he might have been all muddled up but the current Australian Government is far from confused. They know exactly what entrepreneurship is and its role [...]
Australians love a larrikin. That unconventional person who is a true individual and dances to the beat of their own drum. So we would have loved the 19th century Texas rancher Samuel Maverick. He was so free-spirited and individually minded that he refused to brand his cattle. Strange behaviour for a rancher! But, if you [...]
In the September school holidays, Club Kidpreneur ran 'Budding Business Brains' workshops at three Westfield shopping centres in Sydney. 154 kids learned to build and launch their own micro-enterprise with the majority returning to sell products at a Kidpreneur Market Day. Together these kidpreneurs raised an impressive $3,403.50 at Westfield Parramatta, Warringah and Miranda! Budding Business Brains [...]
Case Study - Billanook College VIC Teacher Adam Mitchell at Billanook College VIC took up the CK Challenge program in term 3, 2015. Here is a quick snapshot of the unique way Adam is running the program in his own words: "We are nearly at the end of term 3, but we are nowhere near the [...]
Budding Business Brains Workshops In August, we piloted the first of our Budding Business Brains workshops at Westfield Bondi Junction. Thirty-seven budding kidpreneurs completed a three-hour workshop to learn the basics of creating a micro-enterprise including making a prototype product. They returned two weeks later and sold their products which included photo frames, key [...]
Would you like to inspire children to become kidpreneurs and have a day or a few available to help us out over the September school holidays? Club Kidpreneur is looking for people to assist our facilitators run our new Budding Business Brains workshops in five Sydney locations. Each workshops are for three hours and [...]
