Innovation Academy
Middle School and High School Innovative and entrepreneurial programs
After school, Spring and Summer Camps
Interactive & immersive workshops designed to introduce key concepts in innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and methods, Silicon Valley style and to inspire, inform, and engage young minds.
Special emphasis is placed on finding and solving human problems with experiential learning of startup companies and best practices. Students are also taught how to tell a compelling startup story about their product or service (i.e. pitch) and engage in Silicon Valley style networking.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 65% of today’s grade school kids will end up at a job that hasn't been invented yet.
What they say
Over the course we developed our business idea as a team and continuously refined it. We also improved our pitches to be presented to a VC. I learned so many new things
As a high schooler, Thinktomi’s Entrepreneur Playbook provided me with a real world experience on how to take an idea and make it solid enough to present in front of an investor. I would strongly recommend this course to any aspiring entrepreneurs
I enjoyed The Entrepreneur's Playbook mainly because it was a practitioner's teaching approach. You build a toolkit with a new perspective and motivation to innovate change for tomorrow.
Are you ready to innovate, think out-of-the box and solve human problems?
Join us on a program that "ignites your passion"
Here are some of the things you will learn...
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Identifying your strengths with Gallup Strengthsfinder
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Thinking like an entrepreneur
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Innovative thinking
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Identifying problems
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Magic of a team
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Creating social impact
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The Lean Methodology
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Minimum Viable Product
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Business Model Canvas
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Selling & Social media tools
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Company ownership
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Financial basics
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Fund raising & investing basics
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Elevator Pitch - 30 seconds
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Your story in 4-5 minutes - final presentation & pitch
Note: Students will be provided with various tools during this learning process
Students are also taught how investing works and teams get to pick a winning team after their final pitch presentation
Each team member on the winning team gets $50 cash
