Upstart – Leaders in entrepreneurship education
Our flagship entrepreneurial program. Designed for students in years 8-10 and VPC across a range of curriculum areas. This program is ideal for business students and those delivering community projects. The Upstart Challenge will encourage and inspire your students to have a go, to develop critical thinking skills and connections, and to discover their inner entrepreneur and changemaker.
The Upstart Challenge is aligned to the Australian Curriculum General Capabilities .
Why is the Upstart Challenge vital for today’s young people?
The world is changing fast. Covid-19 will undoubtedly fuel the next wave of innovation.
Jobs of the future will require resilient people with an entrepreneurial mindset who can use critical thinking to identify and understand problems, create effective solutions and successfully take them to market, think differently and work collaboratively in an agile manner.
Entrepreneurialism is a toolkit of hard and soft skills; teachable skills, and the development of characteristics and traits that are essential regardless of career pathway.
From promoting social change, fuelling the economy to driving innovation, entrepreneurship is important for many reasons and in organisations of all sizes and types.
As an Upstart Challenge Teacher, you’ll get:
Curriculum mapped resources you can deliver to the whole class.
Minimum preparation – our resources are ready-to-go!
Certified Professional Development opportunities.
As Upstart Challenge students, you will:
Gain confidence to enter an ever-changing employment landscape.
Learn vital skills such as communication, creative and critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork needed for the jobs of tomorrow.
“The Upstart Challenge program gives students a great opportunity to carefully consider problems affecting the planet and how they can address them. They learn a lot about their own ways of thinking, how to collaborate with others and build on their entrepreneurial skills.”
Ballarat Secondary School Teacher
The Upstart Challenge includes:
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Teacher-led Design Thinking Journey: Delivered in-class by you, the teacher. Don’t worry – we’ll give you all the resources you need, and we’ll share our best practice in the PD session.
Ready-made Resources: We’ve mapped our ready-to-teach resources to the Australian Curriculum General Capabilities so they can be taught in-class across a range of curriculum areas.
Upstart Online Learning Portal: All of our resources are available in the portal allowing flexibility for in class or online delivery and remote learning (if necessary).
Upstart features you know and love
Engaging material that makes it easy and exciting to introduce and discuss entrepreneurship and innovation in the classroom
Upstart ProPitch Showcase: Students will have the opportunity to present their ideas in front of their peers. A great opportunity to connect with your local business community.
Are you ready to introduce entrepreneurship to your classroom?
“The more we can educate secondary school students to learn both business basics and entrepreneurial traits, the better off as a country we will be. The Upstart Challenge program manages to successfully weave in both. ”
Maurice Grasso, Melbourne Angel Investment
