JA Be Entrepreneurial®
Grades 9-12
Students learn about:
- Advertising, competitive advantages, financing, marketing, and product development
Following participation in the program, students will be able to:
- Recognize characteristics and practices of successful entrepreneurs.
- Evaluate an entrepreneurial idea based on product, customer, and
competitive-advantage criteria. - Demonstrate business-planning skills for venture start-up, marketing,
financing, management, and ethical decision-making.
Session One: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Students are introduced to the elements of successful business start-ups, myths and facts about entrepreneurship, and participate in a product development competition.
Session Two: What’s My Business?
Students take on the roles of various entrepreneurs as they develop their product or service idea, and analyze sources of successful entrepreneurial ventures to select a product or service as the basis of their business plan.
Session Three: Who’s My Customer?
Student groups create and present advertisements to demonstrate how market needs and demographics contribute to successful entrepreneurial ventures.
Session Four: What’s My Advantage?
Students evaluate actual companies that have excelled in selecting and applying successful competitive advantages.
Session Five: Competitive Advantages
Students play a game that demonstrates effective competitive advantages and select the best for their own entrepreneurial venture.
Session Six: Ethics Are Good For Business
Students learn through case-studies how being ethical is good for business in the long run.
Session Seven: The Business Plan
Students apply the key elements of successful entrepreneurs to their product or services and complete a sample business plan.
Bring JA Be Entrepreneurial to your classroom!
At your invitation, we help arrange for business people and local community leaders to visit your classroom a few times or throughout the semester. Request JA Be Entrepreneurial for your classroom today at JAjax.com.
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