BizKids

Where Kids Learn About Building

and Managing Their Own
Business

PLA Innovation Award

Hello!
Ormilla Vengersammy
Department Head, Technology & Education Center

Claude Tido
Instructional Technology Specialist
Tony Orengo
Instructional Technology Specialist
 Why?
Teach Kids Basic
Business Skills
Why Kids Should Be Taught Entrepreneurship Early On
https://www.proposify.com/blog/entrepreneurship-for-kids - Sept. 2017

Why Schools Should Teach Entrepreneurship

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245038 - April 2015
 How?
Teach Kids Basic
Business Skills
Mind Mapping:
Business Startup What are
you selling?
Product/
Service?

Where
would you Who would
sell your buy your
product/ product/
service? service?
What is
your
Business

How much
will you What is the
charge for Business
Name?
product/
service?
Concept-Based Learning through the Integration
of Technology and Curriculum Design
BizKids
Program
at OCLS Children’s
BizKids DIY/Maker
Business
Camps Classes
Fair
EDUCATE INSPIRE LAUNCH
BizKids Camps
BizKids Microsoft Office Expert Develop Your
Business Idea
Managing a
Storefront

Camps
In this three-day camp,
students created In this three-day camp, In this three-day camp,
dynamic presentations in students developed a students created basic
PowerPoint, crunched business idea, created a accounting spreadsheets,
numbers in Excel and business plan, and tracked inventory, and
created eye-catching pitched their business practiced good customer
flyers in Word. concepts to an audience. service.
Microsoft
Day One Day Two Day Three
Office Students explored the Students explored the Students explored the
Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Excel
Expert environment. They used environment. They environment. They
basic typing and editing created a presentation created a spreadsheet
techniques to create an using animations, to calculate and track
informative flyer transitions and graphics the prices for items and
advertising their to promote their the total profit gained.
business to family and product and services.
friends.
Develop
Your Day One Day Two Day Three

Business Students met to

brainstorm potential
Students created a
business plan and a
Students created a
presentation that they
business ideas. They budget for their used to pitch their
Idea came up with a new
product idea for a
business using
Microsoft Word and
business idea to
potential investors for
business. They then Excel. funding.
learned how to price
the product to make a
profit.
Activity: Brainstorming Business Idea
Manage a Day One
Storefront Students learned about
wholesale and retail
price, margins, and profit.
They browsed through
an online wholesaler’s
shopping site and
created an inventory list
in Microsoft Excel.
Day Two Day Three
Students were engaged
in roleplaying exercises
Students worked in the
Library’s gift shop. They
where they experienced used the cash register and
the do’s and don’ts of retail spaces, and marketed
customer service. They the shop and its products to
learned how to handle a potential customers.
cash register and the
importance of creating
marketing materials such
as flyers to promote
their business.
15
 66
BizKids Sessions in 2017

365
Kids and Teens in Attendance

100%
Total success!
DIY/Maker
Classes
What
Theydo
are
Elon
all entrepreneurs
Musk, Mark Zuckerberg,
who innovate
Bill
Gates and
andan
serve
Orange
theirCounty
communities.
third grader
have in common?
Orlando Children’s
Business Fair
 20

Orlando ○ One-day marketplace where

Children’s children ages 6-17 debut their
Business inventions.
Fair ○ Over 20 young entrepreneurs
participated in 2017.
○ Over 400+ attendees.
BUSINESS
CONTEST
 “It was awesome. I was
hoping the other kid next to
me would win and she did.
I’m so proud.”

-Participant
 “A great entrepreneurial
experience for all…please
do it again!!!”

- Parent
“…I learned so much and I
had so much fun.
P.S. I learned some math
too!”

-Participant
Orlando Children’s Business Fair
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Resources
○ ChildrensBusinessFair.org
○ Guide to Writing a Business Plan
○ 101+ Business Ideas for Kids
PLA Innovation Award
Thanks!
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