The Aldridge Foundation and Startup Sherpas have partnered to create The Social Enterprise Challenge. An initiative that involves all Year 8 students across 8 Aldridge schools.
You will be invited to the platform by the team at Startup Sherpas. All you need to do are follow these steps:
When you sign in, you’ll see your homepage set up specifically for your school and the programme created for you.
From here, you can get to ‘My Workspace’ where you’ll find all you instructions, and we’ve provided you with all the starting points (the mindmaps) that you used in your bootcamp.
You’ll be signed up automatically (along with all your students) to one of our Programmes. To check on your instructions, follow these steps:
An exciting 3 hour in-person Bootcamp.
We kick off The Social Enterprise Challenge with a half-day bootcamp run across
4 x 30 minutes missions, run in the classroom.
The students will explore their ‘starting points’, and will create an initial idea using our BBQ Pitch tool!
6 x 30 minutes missions, run in the classroom.
The students will explore diversity and recognising that everyone has skills, and then they will work in teams to create Product Boxes, Pitch to Video, and a simple prototype of their idea.
* Covid permitting – the programme will adapt to individual work if required
5 x 30 minutes missions, run in the classroom.
THE LAST 2 MISSIONS MUST BE COMPLETED (THE FIRST 3 ARE OPTIONAL)
The students will be making their ideas real using prototyping techniques – Storyboarding and making an Instagram Advert
STICK THE INSTRUCTIONS UP ON SCREEN SO THE STUDENTS CAN FOLLOW THEM…
Don’t forget that we aim to be a ‘no prep’ lesson, and the instructions are written so the students follow them directly.
NO SCREEN OR PROJECTOR? PRINT OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS AND HAND THEM OUT…
If you’ve been beaten by tech limitations, then you can just print the instructions out and hand them around.
WE LOVE PENS AND PAPER, SO YOU’LL FIND A NUMBER OF WORKSHEETS ALONG THE JOURNEY…
In the commercial world, these are called ‘canvases’, but they mean the same thing! Print them out and get your students scribbling.
Your students will have already prepared something for their pitch in Mission 4. All we ask is that you make sure they bring everything and have it ready for the final pitch mission.
The more ‘stuff’ around the room, the better! Get all your students to lay out everything they’ve created at the start of the lesson.
Please take pictures! It’s great to share what your classroom looks like with everyone’s creations spread across the room.
We would like you to award certificates at the end of the pitches, based purely on your own opinion.
The awards are:
A day at the ?Whatif! offices in London, a day being coached by the Startup Sherpa team, a day meeting some amazing people from the world of startups and innovation. And you get a free lunch!!!
You have pitched a couple of times during the programme so you’ll be glad to hear that we are going to use the same format for the final pitch.
Because there are so many teams pitching, we will need to be strict on time. You will have 3 mins on the day so aim for a pitch of about 2 mins 30 secs, because it is better to have a bit of time remaining than run over and be cut short.
Follow the same format:
As before you can use powerpoint, posters and props to bring your presentation to life. We have put some suggestions for powerpoint below if that is a route you want to take. If using powerpoint, please email over copies to kathy@startupsherpas.co.uk by 5pm Tues 26th Apr.
Finally, on the day we will have time to practice and you will get some tips from the Startup Sherpas team.
Our mission at Start up Sherpas is to train the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. We have taken a tried and tested innovation and entrepreneurship process used by corporates and adapted it to be used by young people.
This is a programme designed and funded by the Aldridge Foundation. It delivers an entrepreneurship experience which reinforces the Aldridge Attributes. The aim is to come up with ideas for social enterprises (businesses with a social or environmental mission). The Challenge kicked off with a Bootcamp and then students will complete 16 missions over 3 half terms to build out their ideas.
Your role is about guiding, not teaching, hence the name Sherpa. The programme has been designed so that it is broken down into simple step-by-step instructions. There is no right or wrong answer in terms of completing the tasks so you don’t have to teach, it is more about guiding students through the experience and encouraging them to give it a go.
There are downloadable PowerPoint slides on the Teachers Resources page. Use these!
The best way to connect the dots between your subject and the programme is to highlight start ups working in that space. E.g. if you are teaching thematic mapping then you could use Fat Map (https://fatmap.com); they create 3D maps & guides for skiing, hiking and biking.
We are working on a library of start ups to support different subjects but in the meantime, please email kathy@startupsherpas.co.uk and she will be able to provide some good examples.
If a student misses a single mission, they can usually just move forward and complete the next one. They may need to make a quick decision in order to do so, e.g. select a single idea to work on. Try to encourage those students to log on themselves and complete any missed missions.
Starting in January, the students will be working in teams so it is their team mates role to catch them up on what they have missed.
Please let us know at kathy@startupsherpas.co.uk if you are impacted by Covid, and some or all of the class are moving online. The students work in teams during Term 2 but this will be very difficult if homeschooling. We have therefore designed an individual version of the programme which can be switched on if necessary.
Term 1 missions can be found by toggling to the Term 1 project in the Workspace.