SparkSchool Entrepreneurship Program
Learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, while exploring innovative ideas and identifying your interests with the guidance of international experts. This program involves launching impactful projects, developing your personal brand, networking with seasoned founders, visiting the headquarters of leading start-ups, participating in a pitch competition, and generating tangible outcomes.
Duration: 6 Weeks
2024 Dates:
Summer Cohort: June 15 - July 21st
Location: Emaar Club Beryl, Sector-65, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Mode: In-Person
For: Grades 9-12, recent class 12 grads and gap semester students
Foundations, Concepts & Tools
Learn essential entrepreneurship foundations, from idea validation to revenue models, market sizing, and pitch decks. Leverage tools like no-code website builders, ChatGPT, and designing software to turn your ideas into reality.
HQ Visits & Immersions
Experience work environment and culture at top start-ups and leading corporations as you visit their headquarters and factories with the SparkSchool Cohort.
Expert Insights
Gain valuable insights from guest lectures by expert founders and executives hailing from successful start-ups multinational corporations, and esteemed universities.
Personal Branding
Develop and master your individual and professional online brand presence as you build a compelling LinkedIn profile, a personal brand video, and more while documenting your skills, interests and experiences.
Pitch Competition
Stand a chance to raise venture funding as you demonstrate your learnings from SparkSchool in a pitch competition, competing for top spots, mentorship and exciting prizes
Certification
Upon program completion, receive a certification that can bolster your college, internship and job applications, opening doors to future opportunities.
Curriculum & Schedule
-> In-Person Cohort Sessions on Saturdays between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM
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Summer Cohort: June 15, 22, and 29 and July 6, 13 and 20
-> Flexible virtual sessions during the weekdays
-> Start-up HQ visits on select Sundays
-> Pitch Competition and Concluding Conference
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Summer Cohort: Sunday 21st July
Introduction, Entrepreneurship & Ideation
Program, instructor, and cohort introduction, understanding entrepreneurship and business entities, exploring related career opportunities and education paths, a dive into ideation and idea validation methodologies.
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Saturday: In-Person Cohort Learning
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During the week: Guest Expert chat and connect
Key Activities & Tools: Idea Validation Matrix and Ideation Methods
The SparkSchool Boot-Camp Differentiator
Early development of business acumen & design thinking
Stand out from peers in competitive application pools, be it for college, internships, or full-time roles as you learn concepts taught at the top
B-Schools and bestselling books.
Engage in practical projects with tangible outcomes
Practical activities and deliverables to ensure that you graduate with a personal brand, a business plan, and potentially even raise venture funding.
Leverage your entrepreneurial instinct across passions
Learn how to apply entrepreneurial frameworks in diverse domains to fuel value creation across hobbies and passions.
