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Futurepreneurs Academy is an online entrepreneurship program for high school and tertiary students. The program is ideal for students 15 years and above or those who have had prior exposure to entrepreneurship, STEAM or enterprise / business studies.
We’ve designed the program to augment formal studies across key learning areas including:
- Economics and Business Studies
- Design and Technologies
- Digital Technologies
- Commerce
- English
- Life Skills
The program is self-guided and delivered securely online at OpenLearning.com
Your program registration fee covers 1 year access to the Futurepreneurs Academy including:
- Unlimited access to secure online dashboard.
- Levels 1 – 9 + X1 for Start-Up Incubator program | Levels 1 – 13 + X1 + X2 for Start-Up Accelerator program.
- Briefings, videos, challenges and assessments.
- Social learning – Your dashboard also provides you with access to messaging, portfolio and project sharing and private group chat feature to talk to any one else within your Class cohort only.
The program leads learners through the process of building their own start-up business across 10 (Start-Up Incubator) – 15 (Start-Up Accelerator) Levels.
Start-Up Incubator
Learn the fundamentals of thinking, acting and creating like an entrepreneur and building a real-world, viable and sustainable business. Solve a real-world problem creatively, develop an innovative product prototype and a business model blueprint to help pitch for start-up capital to launch your start-up.
- Level 1 | Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
- Level 2 | Problem Solving + Ideation
- Level 3 | Target Customers
- Level 4 | Design Thinking I – Process Overview + Empathise Stage
- Level 5 | Design Thinking II – Ideate Stage + Product Design
- Level 6 | Design Thinking III – Prototype + Test + Pivot
- Level 7 | Business Model Blueprint I – Value Proposition + Delivery Proposition
- Level 8 | Business Model Blueprint II – Financial Proposition, Vision + Mission
- Level 9 | Start-Up Budget
- Level X1 | Pitching for Start-Up Capital
Start-Up Accelerator
A more advanced version of the Start-Up Incubator program that extends you into the launch phase of your start-up. You’ll learn more about commercialisation, customer acquisition, growth and scale on your way to becoming a bona fide entrepreneur with your own viable operating business.
- Level 1 | Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
- Level 2 | Problem Solving + Ideation
- Level 3 | Target Customers
- Level 4 | Design Thinking I – Process Overview + Empathise Stage
- Level 5 | Design Thinking II – Ideate Stage + Product Design
- Level 6 | Design Thinking III – Prototype + Test + Pivot
- Level 7 | Business Model Blueprint I – Value Proposition + Delivery Proposition
- Level 8 | Business Model Blueprint II – Financial Proposition, Vision + Mission
- Level 9 | Start-Up Budget
- Level X1 | Pitching for Start-Up Capital
- Level 10 | Naming + Brand Identity
- Level 11 | Website + Landing Pages
- Level 12 | Customer Acquisition I – Marketing
- Level 13 | Customer Acquisition II – Sales
- Level X2 – Scale-Up Pitch for Growth Capital
Entrepreneurship is not linear and can be pretty relentless in the real-world however, we’ve tried to streamline the process you’ll follow in the program so that time invested is minimised.
We’ve designed the program so that concepts are delivered in short briefings and mini-challenges to keep momentum building. There are 15 levels and each level is divided into 4 sub-levels that ‘chunk’ down the information and make it easier to apply to building your start-up.
The program is self-guided so you can spend as much or as little time as you need to complete the challenges but as a guide, each level (4 sub-levels) should take 4 – 6 hours of work.
Access to the program is immediate as soon as we’ve received your payment and verified your email address.
Our programs are designed to give young people skills and experiences that augment their school studies and give them new skills that aren’t easily acquired through the current curriculum.
We believe in the power of entrepreneurship to help all young people become more adaptable, employable and competitive adults with comprehensive life-skills. We aren’t just trying to produce more entrepreneurs, we want all young people to have the experience of entrepreneurship from an early age so that it can help shape an agile mindset and give them 21st century skills they will need in the future regardless of their path.
We’ve got strong evidence over the 10 years we’ve been running our programs that ALL learners can excel at entrepreneurship regardless of their background or even if they aren’t gifted in the traditional ‘three As’ – academic, artistic and athletic.
We’ve seen a lot of young people who were depressed or distracted, had low-self esteem and no confidence or dyslexia and other learning difficulties, all have a transformation through the programs, graduating with confidence and a new belief in themselves.
Futurepreneurs Education is co-designed by entrepreneurs, educators and enterprise leaders to make sure your time with us is engaging while adding the most value. Our goal is to train you to be an entrepreneurial thinker and creator, empowering you with the critical mindset and skillset you need to be adaptable, employable and competitive in the future, whether you decide to build and run your own business or not.
By completing the full program you will:
- Be able to think, act and create like entrepreneurs
- Increase your innovation capacity and ability to solve problems affecting the world
- Develop an agile growth mindset
- Become a competent creative and critical thinker
- Design products and services that solve real-world problem and your customers will love
- Understand revenue, profit and loss and build other core financial skills
- Improve your digital literacy
- Commercialise your products and attract customers through marketing and sales
- Develop and deliver pitch presentations to help you launch and grow your start-up
- Enhance your collaboration, decision-making and leadership skills
- Build your confidence, resilience and risk tolerance
