INCubator Entrepreneurship Education
Program Overview
Students Build Real Businesses
Year 1
INCubatoredu is a full-year course offering an authentic entrepreneurship experience as students develop their own product or service startup.
Problem-Solution Identification | Student teams explore, pivot, iterate and develop resilience as they work to solve problems they care about.
Customer and Idea Exploration | Real entrepreneurs and industry experts serve as volunteer coaches and mentors guiding student teams through the process of idea validation.
Pitch for Real Funding | Student teams pitch to gain investment funds in a final shark-tank style pitch event.
Year 2
As a second-year course, ACCELeratoredu provides students the opportunity to launch and gain traction for their business.
Company Formation | Establishing a legal entity and developing three areas: customer acquisition, production and business processes as it suits their business.
Market Traction | The experience models a real-life start-up accelerator focused on developing teams through mentorship, education, connections, and accountability to launch a company.
Iterate and Scale | The course transitions businesses founded in INCubatoredu into sustainable, functioning ventures.
Approved Equivalency Credit
2.0 Careers (CTE), 1.0 Fine Arts
