Lemonade Stand Melbourne - The Business School For Kids (Sep '24 Holidays)

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Lemonade Stand is a one-day program for 9 to 12-year-olds aimed to equip children with the mindset required to succeed in a fast-moving 21st Century.

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Instead of asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, perhaps we should ask them "what problem do you want to solve?"

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In an exponentially changing world, our education system is doing what it can to maintain pace, relevance and impart the skills required to prosper in the 21st century.

However, technology and business model innovation moves much quicker than the school system is capable of responding.

As such, the very existence of jobs traditionally seen as ‘safe’ such as accounting is being questioned and today’s kids are facing an uncertain future in which they are likely to have several careers and up to 15 jobs.

Fundamental business skills will be absolutely imperative to success in the 21st Century.

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Help your children learn the basics of business building and how to pitch their ideas.

This one day interactive workshop will introduce your kids to these principles in a fun and social way.

As part of the course work students will be introduced to building prototypes, websites and apps

Armed with this knowledge, they will be placed into groups and given the opportunity to pitch their own business ideas in front of an audience of parents and peers.

Parents and family are invited to attend the pitch session on the afternoon of the final session.

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Lemonade Stand aims to empower your children to reach their potential and take advantage of the unique opportunities that today’s business and digital landscape presents.

"Thank-you for a fun, interactive & thought provoking 2 days. My son Conor had an absolute ball, & is brimming with ideas & enthusiasm! ... Well done guys, keep up the smiles & enthusiasm! You obviously love what you do & more importantly, the kids do too."

-Kristen, mother

"It's not boring school. We make websites and we learn businesses and stuff, however at school it's just maths and English. Everybody should get the chance to do this — it's epic."

-Maxim, student

"These pitches were better than most adults I've seen pitch!"

-Steve Baxter, former Shark Tank Australia judge and startup investor

1. Ideas everywhere - How to identify an idea
2. Solving a real customer problem / Introduction to Value Proposition Design
3. How to make money / Introduction to Business Model Development
4. Building prototypes to test customer appetite for a product (see below for list of prototypes)
5. Marketing / introduction to customer acquisition
6. How to deliver your product / Introduction to distribution
7. Measuring success / Introduction to analytics
8. Pitching to buyers / Investors (parents)

Part of the fun of this course is all about building prototypes to test customer appetite for a product quickly and cheaply, empowering students to take many small bets - a critical mindset to support innovation as they get older.

1. Websites / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
2. Website Landing Pages
3. Mobile App Prototype
4. Powerpoint Prototypes
5. Paper Prototypes
6. Cardboard Prototypes
7. Sketches

Drop Off and Collection

Drop off times: 8:30am - 9:00am

Pick up times: 4:00pm-4:30pm

All of our trainers and staff have Working With Children's licenses, provisioned by the Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation.

Our venue will be restricted to authorised personnel only during the course of the program.

Your children will be supervised by an adult throughout their entire time on campus.

Children are encouraged to bring their own lunch for designated break times. Parents are also welcome to take their children out to lunch if convenient.

Snacks (bananas, apples, pears, muesli bars, Shapes and Natural confectionary lollies) water and orange juice is provided free of charge throughout the day.

No peanuts.

10:30-10:45: Morning Tea

12-12:45: Lunch

2:30-2:45: Afternoon Tea

Children will be supervised throughout all break times.

Lemonade Stand is founded and facilitated by serial entrepreneur, Steve Glaveski.

Steve founded startup accelerator Collective Campus, which was an Australian Financial Review Fast Starter 100, generating over $6M in sales, and incubated 100 startups that raised over US$200M and are today worth well over a billion dollars collectively.

He wrote the Wiley books, Employee to Entrepreneur, and Time Rich - both endorsed by Adam Grant, and is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review.

His podcast, Future Squared, has received over one million downloads.

He lives and breathes entrepreneurship.

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