School Holiday Program for Year 7 – 10 Students Startup High is a 1-day program aimed to equip teens with the fundamental mindset required to succeed in a fast moving century.  In an exponentially changing world, our education system is doing what it can to maintain pace, relevance and impart the skills required to prosper in the 21st century.

However, technology and business model innovation moves much quicker than the school system is capable of responding. As such, the very existence of jobs traditionally seen as ‘safe’ such as accounting is being questioned and today’s kids are facing an uncertain future in which they are likely to have several careers and up to 15 jobs.

Clearly, a capacity for personal reinvention and an ability to identify new business and personal growth opportunities will be of significant importance.

Collective Campus co-founder and program facilitator Steve Glaveski says that “kids are always asked ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ but perhaps we should ask them ‘what do you want to create’?”

Fundamental business skills will be absolutely imperative to success in the 21st Century.

Help your children learn the basics of business building and how to pitch their ideas. This week long class will introduce your kids to these principles in a fun and interactive way and have them solving real problems.  As part of the course work students will be introduced to building prototypes, websites, apps and 3D printed mock-ups.  Armed with this information they will be placed into groups of 5 and given the opportunity to create their own business and pitch to ‘grown up’ startups, investors and parents. 

Startup Kids Success Stories

• Nick D’Aloisio was 17 when he sold his news app Summly for US$30M.

• Juliette Brindak was 16 when she launched Miss O & Friends. It’s now worth US$15M.

• Cameron Johnson was 15 and earning US$400,000 each month with SurfingPrizes.com.

Startup High aims to empower your children to reach their potential and take advantage of the unique opportunities that today’s business and digital landscape presents.

Course Curriculum

• Ideas everywhere – how to identify an idea
  
• Solving a real customer problem / introduction to Value Proposition Design
• How to make money / introduction to Business Model Development
• Building prototypes to test customer appetite for a product (see below for list of prototypes)
• Marketing / introduction to customer acquisition
• How to deliver your product / introduction to distribution
• Measuring success / introduction to analytics
• Pitching to buyers / investors (parents)

Prototype Development

Part of the fun of this course is all about building prototypes to test customer appetite for a product quickly and cheaply, empowering students to take many small bets – a critical mindset to support innovation as they get older.

What kind of prototypes will they build?

• Websites / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
• Website Landing Pages
• Mobile App Prototype
• Powerpoint Prototypes
• 3D Printed Prototypes
• Paper Prototypes
• Cardboard Prototypes
• Sketches
• Lego Prototypes 
  
  

Who Will Teach Your Children

Steve Glaveski, Co-founder of Collective Campus

Previously founded Hotdesk.net, ran a live music venue and has worked in consulting for KPMG and Ernst & Young in addition to roles with Macquarie Bank and the Victorian Auditor General’s Office.

Steve facilitates classes on topics such as lean startup and enterprise innovation at Collective Campus and has worked with companies such as Sportsbet and Australia Post.

Qualifications: Master of Accounting, Bachelor of Business, Agile Certified Practitioner, Project Management Professional

Sean Qian, Co-founder of Collective Campus

 

Previously founded Collins Collective and Queens Collective, both Melbourne tech startup coworking spaces.

Has also run an events management company, and been a registered migration

agent.

Prior to founding his coworking spaces Sean spent time in operations and business development at a Registered Training Organisation.

Qualifications: Bachelor of entertainment business management, Graduate certificate in immigration law and policy, Certificate IV in training and assessment.

About Us

Collective Campus is an innovation hub where large enterprise, SMEs and startups learn, connect and innovate. Set on 500sqm in Melbourne’s CBD, Collective Campus runs events, workshops and courses for both companies and individuals wanting to learn more about data science, customer experience design, digital marketing, web development, lean startup and design thinking. The space has been home to some of the biggest names in the business such as Uber, General Assembly and Zomato and is home to peak Victorian startup bodies such as Startup Victoria, Startup Grind and Silicon Beach Melbourne. We have worked with organisations such as Sportsbet, Australia Post, Bluedot Innovation and Mailguard. 

Customer Testimonials

“After completing the Lean Startup Short Course at Collective Campus I feel I know what questions to ask and what I should be focussing on to get new ideas off the ground. Steve’s responsive approach as well as class discussions helped me clarify my ideas and experiment with usable tools. A valuable and inspiring part of the course was hearing diverse personal stories from several entrepreneurs, including Steve. Highly recommend for anyone looking for an intro to Lean Startup and some inspiration!”

– Carl Turner, Swinburne Design Factory

“Steve is extremely knowledgeable around innovation theory and start up methodologies and provides great commercial perspectives on disruptive innovators. Definitely worth a listen for any company not currently disrupting themselves”

— Sue Hogg, Iterations Manager at Australia Post

“The Lean Startup Short Course at Collective Campus equips you with the fundamentals required to take your startup idea to an MVP and validate it. Interactive classroom sessions, hands-on exercises and guest speakers who talked about their startup journeys were the highlights of the course for me.”

– Hima Tk, PwC

“As a growing team at b2cloud, we decided to approach Collective Campus to realign our teams mission and vision of agile and scrum. The result was a great bootcamp session with plenty of information, examples, exercises and thoughtful conversations. I found the experience really helpful and we look forward to implementing a lot of our learnings in our process. I would recommend Collective Campus to teams who need to create change, innovate and realign their scrum mindset.”

– Mac Korasani, B2Cloud