Kickstart Your Passion Project
Event Information
Description
Want to support your child in starting their own passion project but don't have time or don't know how to? Sign up your child for this one-day workshop where we help them explore and start on their own passion projects!
About the workshop
- For kids ages 13 - 19
- Hone new skills and explore their passions outside of school
- Time for unstructured play, exploration and creation
- Identify roadblocks, conceptualize a project, validate the idea and start your own kickstarter campaign
- Design-thinking approach
- No experience needed
- We keep our class size small (maximum 15 students)
What parents say about us?
"Thinking without making is theory without practical. This course teaches your kids real world skills, and to do the things that machines can’t yet. Which is to imagine, invent and create."
–Calvin Soh (father of 2)
What is the programme schedule like?
Highlight: Sharing session by Lih Wei on his experience of starting a crowdfunding campaign
- At a young age of 28, Lih Wei is the CTO and Co-founder of successful Singapore-grown start-up - TinyMOS. TinyMOS designs and sells the worlds smallest, smartest and most social astronomy camera. During the launch of their flagship product, their crowdfunding campaign made global headlines by hitting US$100,000 withn 4 hours and raised a total of US$489,770!
- Apart from sharing about his entrepreneur journey, Lih Wei will also share with your children about how he used his interest and passion in science, electronics and fiddling with gadgets into creating a succcessful project.
- Check out Lih Wei’s crowdfunding project here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tiny1-the-world-s-smallest-astronomy-camera#/
Morning: Ideation Time
- We waste no time and will dive straight into forming the students into small groups of 3 to ideate on their passion projects and create action plans!
Afternoon: Get Out of the Classroom
- What's more real than taking your ideas out to real people? Students will take to the streets to do market survey about their ideas and refine their projects. They will also film a video to showcase their projects!
Evening: Final Showcase
- Students will end of with a presentation and pitch of their final projects. Parents are invited!
Why should my child join "Kickstart Your Passion Project"?
In this fast-changing world where the economy becomes more unpredictable for us working parents, it’s even more so going to impact our children. How can we be certain that the old ways of education and schooling can prepare our kids for the uncertain future?
These parents let their children take the path towards their passion, and their children learnt values and skills which are taught beyond classrooms: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/feature/young-uns-and-top-guns
Kickstart Your Passion Project is a workshop that keeps things real and brings the real world to your kids. It will help build your child’s personal capacity to innovate, identify opportunities and build useful skills that will be important for their future.
In this one-day workshop, your child will learn how to validate their business ideas and start a crowdfunding campaign in a fun and interactive way. They will learn how to solve problems, real problems and work in teams of 3. Parents are invited for their pitching presentations from 3.45pm to 4.30pm.
What will my child walk away with?
- Their very own campaign/project idea
- Their very own kickstarter video, and website (if time allows)
- Confidence in themselves and their abilities
- A certificate to represent their accomplishments!
What other cool stuff will my child learn?
- Understanding business fundamentals
- Identifying market opportunities and gaps
- Validating ideas
- Marketing and communication of new ideas
- Creating their very own video to share about their idea
What should my child bring?
- Laptop: If your child has a laptop, please bring it along. Otherwise, we'll have ours available for them to use throughout the day.
- Money/Packed lunch or snacks : We will be bringing the students out for lunch at City Square Mall, but feel free to get your child to bring their own packed lunch and snacks.
- A bundle of enthusiasm and creativity! It’s going to be a day of fun and excitement!
What will the workshop look like?
About the venue
Mutual Works is a community of businesses and entrepreneurs, who believes that when people come before profit, businesses thrive; because Mutual Works.
Find out more about them here:
Website: https://www.mutualworks.sg/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/mutualworks
How to get there?
Address: 193 Jalan Besar, Level 2 & 3 Singapore 208883
*The workshop will be held at level 3
Location link: http://www.bit.do/mutualworks
Frequently Asked Questions
1. “Can I see my child pitch his/her idea?”
- We’re just as excited as you about this, so we’ve allocated 3.45pm to 4.30pm to be a presentation showcase. Take an early day off work to witness your child’s brilliant ideas!
2. “What is the age range for this workshop?”
- Most of our students are between the ages of 13 and 19. However, if your child is slightly younger or older, that's perfectly fine! As long as they have an interest in learning, the things that matters more is whether they are comfortable interacting with other kids who are slightly younger or older.
3. “How big are the classes? Will there be enough supervision?”
- We keep our class size small with up to only 15 students so that every single child gets the best learning experience. There will be at least 3 adults which means that your child will have someone looking after them and making sure they have a great time!
Have more questions about this workshop?
Or the date/time don’t fit?
Call us at +65 92220148 or
Email us at contact@praxium.sg
We will try our best to make it work for you!
Please note:
We will be filming and taking photographs of your child in our workshop. By registering a child's attendance at this workshop, parents/guardians grant Praxium a perpetual licence to use the student's work, photographs or videos of the student, and other materials for purposes such as publicising or promoting our workshops/events and the students’ accomplishments on Praxium's website or on our partners' websites.
Should there be a cancellation of the workshop, Praxium will inform all participants beforehand.
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