TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE)
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Mission
Foster the next generation of leaders by creating a new learning environment where high school ages participants can experiment, build resilience, and collaborate to create productive and successful pathways for personal and professional goals.
Vision
Empower youth worldwide to be entrepreneurial and lead in a dynamic global environment through a unique integrated curriculum that can be modeled to meet local economic and social challenges.
Objectives
To build resilient and collaborative entrepreneurs to meet local economic and social change
Program Details
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TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) is an exciting and challenging program designed to help high-school students develop business acumen and realize the rewards of entrepreneurship through a combination of instructor led and mentor facilitated sessions. Teams employee design thinking approach to ideate on product or service they would like to bring to the marketplace. Working under the mentorship of industry leaders they validate their ideas with customers by building prototypes, develop go to market strategies and financial plans. Towards the end of the program, the teams compete at the regional level for cash awards totaling $5,000. The regional winner goes on to compete at the global competition for cash awards totaling $10,000.
This is a very competitive program and requires commitment of 3-4 hours per week over the 6-7 month duration of the program.
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Program Flow
Fees
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New participants $500
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Returning participants $400
If registration and payment is completed by July 15th.
For financial aid, email tye@tiecarolinas.org
Schedule
| Date | Topic |
| October | Business Model Overview |
| October | Opportunity Recognition |
| November | Research & Insights |
| November | Ideate using Design Thinking |
| December | Customer & Market Validation |
| December | Market Placement and Promotion |
| January | Setup and Scale Operations |
| February | Financial Model |
| March | Communications |
| April | Mock Competition |
| May | Regional Competition |
| TBD | TiE Global Competition |