HomeMy WebLinkAboutExhibitProposal for Spring Break Full Time Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Teens
01.07.2016
Proposal —Venture Hive LLC proposes to provide The City of Miami's District 4 with a Spring Break full time
Tech Entrepreneurship Camp targeted at teenagers ages 12-15 at a selected park in the City to be offered
during the week of March 21st, 2016. The program will focus on skill development related to hardware
product development, basic coding, entrepreneurial thinking, communication, and personal development.
Background— During the summer of 2015, Venture Hive delivered seven Tech Entrepreneurship Summer
Camps, each one or two weeks in duration, over an eight week period. The camps were offered in six parks
throughout Districts 2 and 4 and impacted the lives of 142 children, aged 10-13. The summer camps
introduced campers to the world of entrepreneurship, product development and hardware platforms.
Campers developed product ideas based on problems they wanted to solve and created functional prototypes
by deploying learned skills and working in teams. Final products included digital dice pads, sensor -activated
and controlled nightlights, alarm systems, memory games, and fully customizable wearable technology.
At the onset of the camps, only 14% of kids had prior exposure to coding and programming. At the end of the
camps, 100% of them left with experience in coding and programming with hardware. Changes in attitudes
towards entrepreneurship changed dramatically after the camps. At the beginning of the camps only 44% of
kids expressed an interest in entrepreneurship. This figure jumped to 71% at the end of the camps.
Furthermore, there was a 27% growth in entrepreneurial mindsets and attitudes, 15% growth in behaviors
exhibiting resiliency and a 17% growth in cooperative mindsets and outlooks!
While the City of Miami Parks & Recreation offers Spring Break Camps for children, little is offered for
teenagers who have to find alternatives outside of the Parks system often leaving them bored at home or
vulnerable to other unsupervised and unproductive activities. With this demographic especially vulnerable to
peer pressure, middle school aged children would greatly benefit from activities that boost their creativity and
develops their technology interests. Most importantly, students may find a new cohort of friends as they
develop new skills and interests as they are exposed to an exciting world of emerging careers.
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Venture Hive is proposing a Spring Break full-time Tech Entrepreneurship Camp (to be offered the week of
March 21st, 2016), similar to the summer camp offering but adjusted for a 12-•15 year old participant
audience.
The Spring Break Tech Entrepreneurship Camp will be a full time program for teens in which participants will
receive six hours of training daily. Each day will incorporate appropriate training, project preparation time, and
breaks.
The following curriculum will be covered throughout the week:
Day 1: Understanding the Lean Startup Model
• Understanding the role of entrepreneurs in society
• Understand the concepts of Problem and solution
• Surveying and data analysis
• Lean Development Process••Lean Startup
Day 2: Prototyping Part 1
• The concept of what a product "Looks -Like"
• The concept of what a product "Works Like"
• The Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Surveying
• Coding for a specific problem
Day 3: Prototyping Part 2
o Coding
o Brainstorming
o "Looks Like" prototypes
o "Works Like" prototypes
o Surveying
Day 4: Prototyping Part 3
o Prototyping: "Looks Like"- "Works Like"
o Surveying
o Presentation and Practice
Day 5: Pitching an Idea
o Branding
o Social Media strategy and Website concept
o Pitch Practice
o Pitch Presentation
Budget
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Spring Break Full time One -week Camp for up to 25 campers
Program management, instruction, mentoring and office supplies $13,000
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ABOUT VENTURE HIVE
Venture Hive creates, tests and validates the content and software tools that corporations, governments, and
universities need to run innovation management, economic development, and entrepreneurship programs.
Through its programs and platform, stakeholders have transparency, program directors have clarity, and
entrepreneurs have the resources, training, and support to build better companies to spur innovation,
technology commercialization, and job creation. The BeeKeeper platform is a proprietary program and
innovation management solution, supporting entrepreneur development with portfolio or innovation pipeline
reporting tools. BeeKeeper offers corporations and program sponsors accountability in assessing program POI
while offering complete program transparency, monitoring impact across dozens of individual and venture level
metrics, mentor and content engagement, and documentation of deliverables and program interaction.
Through partnerships with governmental entities and NGOs, Venture Hive has offered entrepreneurship
education programs on a global scale including entrepreneurship training, mentoring, capacity building, and
business formation assistance. On its non -domestic programs, Venture Hive has worked in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Venture Hive currently provides different levels of entrepreneurship education programs to numerous clients
including the Miami Downtown Development Authority, Miami -Dade County, Microsoft, the U.S. State
Department, the World Bank, FH1360, the Migration Policy Institute, the City of Fort Walton Beach, and Miami-
Dade County Public Schools.