We Collaborate with Educators to Engage Your Students and Enrich Their Formal Education with 21st Century Skills

We have worked alongside the education sector since 2016, co-creating bespoke entrepreneurship learning experiences and high-quality teaching and learning resources, to engage and train young people to build practical, transferrable skills for the future.

By teaching students to think, act and create like entrepreneurs, we’re empowering them, regardless of who they are and where they come from, to be better creative problem solvers and critical thinkers who will become more pro-active, innovative and resilient in all areas of their life.

Flexible and Adaptable to Diverse Contexts and Learning Environments

Our entrepreneurship IP and program content has been developed in collaboration with educators, entrepreneurs and learning specialists as a flexible project-based teaching and learning resource, that can be easily adapted to diverse contexts and learning environments​.

Co-Curricular, Project-Based

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Entropolis offers a range of real-world learning experiences designed to teach students entrepreneurship skills while also fitting to schools specific needs. These can be completely co-created or project style depending on the needs of each individual school.

Extra-Curricular and Extension

Entropolis extends its support into extracurricular activities by offering programs like entrepreneurship clubs, pitch competitions, and bootcamps that students can engage in after school. These activities provide additional opportunities for students to deepen their understanding of business and innovation, while working on real-world projects.

Career and Vocational Training

As part of the Future Unicorn curricular alignment service Entropolis offers professional development for all core subjects. We help teachers effectively deliver entrepreneurship education in any delivery format they are comfortable with. This ensures teachers and educators are confident and capable of facilitating entrepreneurial learning.

Home and Other Out-of-School

Entropolis supports home learning by offering flexible, online resources that allow students to develop entrepreneurial skills at their own pace. Parents and guardians can access modules that guide students through activities such as starting a virtual business or developing creative solutions to everyday problems.

Coaching and Tutoring

Our mentorship programs, connect students with entrepreneurs, allowing for job-shadowing or one-on-one mentorship that can be customised to a school's curriculum or focus.

Clubs and Holiday Programs

Entropolis can support schools to implement incubators that foster student-led startups, where resources and mentorship are provided to help students develop tangible ventures. This could involve working towards and innovation afterschool club.

Curriculum-Aligned Teaching and Learning Resources for Schools

We give you high-quality entrepreneurship tools, resources and plans to enrich your lessons, bring the formal curriculum to life and enrich your students learning experience and outcomes. 

ONLINE

Entropolis offer three modular entrepreneurship programs covering grades 5-10, that are student self-directed, or can be delivered and adapted to fit specific school environments, programming and requirments.

INTERACTIVE

Entropolis offers a range of real-world learning experiences designed to teach students entrepreneurship skills while also fitting to schools specific needs. These learning experiences are all dynamic and interactive. 

BESPOKE

Entropolis helps schools enhance their curriculum by offering customisable bespoke programs that align with educational goals and required delivery formats.

FUTURE UNICORN

A comprehensive series of cross-curricular teaching and learning resources that support 21st Century education and general capabilities development.  

Fully Supported Implementation

We understand the timetabling, resourcing and capacity challenges currently facing schools and educators. So let our qualified, experienced and highly collaborative education team take some of heavy lifting for you!

We offer project management services including strategy, bespoke program development and ongoing implementation support to ensure success building an entrepreneurial mindset, skills and culture in your school.

Teaching and Learning Resources Accessed Securely Online

Student learning modules, lesson plans, workspace and other resources are available on-demand via private and secure user accounts.

Flexible, Gamified Learning Modules for Engaged Students

Real-world start-up concepts and processes delivered via gamified activities and challenges underpinned by high impact teaching strategies. Student-guided. Self-paced or scheduled.

Comprehensive Lesson Plans for Confident Classroom Facilitation

Curriculum-alignment, learning intentions, success criteria and teaching notes for lesson preparation and streamlined delivery

Student Progress Tracking and Assessment Tools

Track student progress and provide feedback coaching and learning intervention. Collect anonymous data to support assessment and ongoing programming

Staged Learning Pathways

Entrepreneurial mindset and skills are built over time through a considered stage-by-stage approach and interconnected experiences starting in upper primary school and expanding through high school years. 

PRIMARY GRADE 5 – 6

The exciting world of entrepreneurship will inspire students to start learning about core start-up concepts and processes and work in teams on the first stages of building their own micro-enterprise.

SECONDARY GRADE 7 – 8

Gamified knowledge briefings and challenges guide them to come up with a business idea and produce a detailed product prototype that solves a real-world problem in their community or the world.

SECONDARY GRADE 8 – 9

Students bring their ideas to life and building foundation commercialisation skills to work towards launching their start-up – business modelling, budgets, launch plans and pitching for start-up capital.

SECONDARY GRADE 9 – 10

Students are challenged to tackle more complex problems and opportunities. They also expand their commercialisation knowledge and apply it to a comprehensive launch plan and simulated investment pitch.

Our entrepreneurship modules and designed to simulate a real-world start-up experience covering key entrepreneurial concepts and processes. Starting with a strong focus on using creative and critical thinking to solve problems, the stages reinforce and expand the scope of student’s entrepreneurial knowledge, mindset and skillset.

Primary Grades 5 and 6

Kidpreneur Ninjas is designed to be an inspiring and aspiration first step on young peoples’ entrepreneurship journey. They are encouraged to open their mind to new possibilities and explore the world around them – their life, school, community and the world, to identify challenges and opportunities they can solve creatively with new ideas. Through the start-up process build cognitive and non-cognitive capabilities:

  • Innovation capacity
  • Imagination and creativity
  • Foundation critical and design thinking
  • Basic sales, marketing and pitching
  • Confidence, initiation and resilience
  • Collaboration, teamwork and leadership
Secondary – Grades 7 – 10
 
Futurepreneurs offers project-based resources, accessed online, for cross-curricular implementation to enrich secondary school subjects including Design Technologies, Commerce and Business Studies, General Capabilities and FutureReady Careers Education. The Futurepreneurs curriculum can be implemented as stand-alone team-based projects, integrated for a staged pathway, or customised with specific modules and content to meet individual school requirements and desired learning outcomes.
 
The programs expose students to the real-world of entrepreneurship in greater depth, encourage more complex problem-solving and develop further entrepreneurial knowledge, mindset and skills through comprehensive briefings, gamified capacity-building and challenges to apply new skills in a real-world context. They identify then leverage their entrepreneurial strengths, attitudes and motivations and continue to build and master cognitive and non-cognitive capabilities:
 
  • Innovation capacity
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Critical thinking and judgement
  • Design thinking and product design
  • Sales, marketing and pitching
  • Empathy and social justice
  • Risk tolerance, confidence and resilience
  • Collaboration, teamwork and leadership

Working Together to Prepare Your Students for Successful Futures

We work alongside educators, supporting your efforts to inspire, teach and empower young people to build successful lives and to be ready for the wide range of possibilities ahead of them – working for others, starting their own ventures, and contributing to their communities.

Based on research and our own experience over the past 10 years, to build productive and successful futures, young people will need specialist knowledge in their chosen field, as well as an entrepreneurial mindset and skills. 

Training to think, act and create like entrepreneurs is a powerful way to build these skills students can apply to fix problems in their community and world while helping them be more adaptable, employable and productive in the future.

The Power of Entrepreneurship Education and Training

Entrepreneurship education is a research-backed, cross-curricular learning resource that can be used to augment core curriculum subjects and supports significant transformations in education shaping the way students learn, teachers teach, and schools operate.

Entropolis’ curriculum and approaches to learning align to:

  • Shift from traditional to more progressive and student-centred approaches (critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity)

  • Integration of technology

  • Individualized learning and differentiation

  • Emphasis on growth mindest and future workforces skills development

  • Blended and online learning, gamification in learning

  • Experiential learning with real-world applications

Skills for Future Work and Life Built Through Entrepreneurship

Learning Principles

Rigorous Pedagogy

Align with and augment formal curriculum to ensure high-quality cross-curricular learning outcomes while encouraging students to question their assumptions and think deeply.

Real-World Learning

Contextual, engaging and relevant learning experiences that follow real-world scenarios and processes with clear practical applications and outcomes.

Entrepreneur Magic

Ignite young people’s imagination and empower them to take risks and confidently explore challenges and opportunities in the world around them.

Conscious Inclusivity

Make entrepreneurship accessible and engaging to all young people regardless of who they are, where they come from, and their ambitions for the future.

Exciting Pathways

Expose young people to a road less travelled and open their minds to new opportunities for their future they may never have considered.