Pathway Vision: Ignite the entrepreneurial spirit within students to envision, build, and attain the future they want for themselves.
Do you want to challenge yourself to grow and set yourself apart as a thinker and leader? Do you have an idea you want to develop or a project you want to manage? The Entrepreneurship Pathway equips students with the entrepreneurial mindset and skills to be successful in pursuing their passions through experiences that are transformative, relevant, and professionally validated.
Throughout the pathway, students develop the attitudes, behaviors, and skills for success; use the entrepreneurial process to develop and pitch an idea; manage projects for optimal results; and leverage data to drive insights and inform decisions. Along the way, students get real-world experience and are supported by industry professionals.
Read below to learn more, find class registration information here, and email the instructor with project team interest or questions.
Course Offerings
Develop the attitudes, behaviors, and skills for success!
- Open to 9th-12th graders
In today’s dynamic world, success often hinges on the way we think and act. Our mindset has the power to differentiate us from the average person, empowering us to do the extraordinary. In this course, students will develop the attitudes, behaviors, and skills for success. This includes identifying talents, developing them into strengths, and leveraging those strengths personally and in teams; creating and implementing a trusted productivity system; developing networking skills by creating a resume and doing mock interviews; and defining a problem and iterating human-centered solutions using Design Thinking. These are invaluable skills to any endeavor, including entrepreneurship. Do you want to challenge yourself to grow and set yourself apart as a thinker and leader? Take Entrepreneurial Mindset!
Take your idea from concept to pitch!
Formerly CTE84130 Entrepreneurial Business Development
- Open to 10th-12th graders
- Prerequisite: Recommend CTE80105 Entrepreneurial Mindset (but not required).
Great ideas and successful businesses are often grown from fierce passion combined with disciplined process. In this course, students will learn the process of taking an idea from concept to pitch and apply it to developing a business idea of their own, while learning valuable product management skills.This includes identifying a problem; forming a team; learning about the customer; developing a solution that meets customers’ needs; analyzing and differentiating themselves from competitors; creating a marketing strategy; projecting financials; and creating a prototype. By the end of the course, students will have a pitch deck, which they will pitch to industry professionals. Students will also verify their skills with the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) certification exam. Do you want to learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and how to take your idea–something you are passionate about–to market? Take Entrepreneurial Journey: Concept to Pitch!
Efficiently and effectively get the right things done!
- Open to 10th – 12th Graders
- Prerequisite: Recommend CTE80105 Entrepreneurial Mindset (but not required).
Life is full of projects, and mastering the art of project management is the key to turning your vision into a reality. Whether it is a weekend project at home, semester project at school, passion project in your spare time, or starting a business, it is important to manage that project for optimal success, efficiently and effectively getting the right things done. In this class, students will learn the fundamentals of project management by taking a real-world project from initiation to close and will apply those fundamentals to their own projects. Students will also verify their skills with the PMI Project Management Ready certification exam. Project Management is a skill set used in a variety of career paths, including entrepreneurship. Do you want to take your vision to the next level through implementation? Take Project Management!
Make data-informed decisions!
- Open to 11th – 12th Graders
- Prerequisite: Recommend CTE80105 Entrepreneurial Mindset (but not required).
Data is everywhere; it is the currency on which modern business relies. Businesses set themselves apart when they can leverage their data to drive insights and inform decisions across and in every aspect of the organization. In this class, students will learn the fundamentals of cleaning, preparing, analyzing, visualizing, and communicating data, using it to inform decisions. Do you want to make informed decisions that will drive progress? Take Business Analytics I!
Project Teams
Entrepreneurship Team
The Entrepreneurship team promotes innovation and ignites the entrepreneurial spirit by working on a variety of real-world projects that drive meaningful impact and foster growth. The Student Designers on this team have the opportunity to take initiative and collaborate with other students and industry professionals, developing their own skills while providing opportunities for others. Projects may include managing the Innovation Center Store and Career Closet; designing and teaching Entrepreneurship summer camps; networking and organizing community events; and working with external clients on projects for their businesses or organizations.
