About TYE
TYE (TiE Young entrepreneurs) is a TiE Global initiative designed for High School students (grades 9-12 or equivalent) integrating classroom sessions, mentoring and business plan competition. TYE aims at teaching high school students entrepreneurship and leadership skills.

CORE OBJECTIVE OF TYE GLOBAL
Develop business plan acumen and communication skills
Discover the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship
Nurture to be a well rounded personality with leadership qualities
Instill confidence to lead in a global environment

Participants
All high school students from 9th - 12th grade

Mission
To offer a global business plan competition along with structured curriculum, geared to educate and groom high school students as entrepreneurs and future leaders.

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.

To know more details and register for the program: http://www.hubilo.com/theme/3/index.php?event=cfec01d4a4b39d5b694d67fd9c77b17f

TYE Curriculum for 2015-16

Topic 1 – What is Entrepreneurship?

This interactive session allows the students to explore their own definitions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial role-models. To make this an energizing class, the discussion is promoted by inspiring entrepreneurs that can engage the student by sharing their stories. Key takeaways for students are:

What does an Entrepreneur do?
How does an Entrepreneur earn wealth?
Pro and Cons of being an Entrepreneur.

Topic 2 – Opportunity Recognition

To promote the students thinking about their business ideas, it is important to give them a context, a business lens, to look at new opportunities and assess their viabilities as a business. During this session, the students learn:

Cost/Benefit Analysis.
Opportunity Cost.
SWOT Analysis.

Topic 3 – Business Models

The goal of this session is for the students to start thinking about their revenue model – who is my customer and how do I get paid for my product or service. By exploring the different types of business models and understanding their value proposition, students can see new opportunities to make money for their products or service.

Topic 4 – Marketing

Any business needs to find the way to reach its customers. Here the students start to think about the essential purpose and thinking that goes with marketing their service or product to its key customers. Marketing session covers topics from market research to developing a market strategy and Break-even analysis. To help the students best comprehend the details of marketing, the session is broken into 2 different dates. The 2nd date is typically scheduled at the end of the program as the groups have already begun to build their business ideas. Overall, the Marketing session covers:

What is marketing?
What is the purpose of marketing?
Effective marketing
Benefits of marketing?
Market research: the five W’s
Competitive strategies
Advertising and publicity
Break even analysis

Topic 5 – Presentation & Team Building Skills

While the sessions mainly concentrate on the elements of the business plan, it is critical that the students begin the learning for keys skills they are required to use in building and presenting their business ideas and will sustain after the conclusion of this journey. These skills are integrated within the daily agenda along with the hard business skills. Some of the key long-term skills are:

Teamwork and team building
Project management
Leadership and listening skills
Presentation skills

Topic 6 – Finance

Probably the toughest and most crucial aspect aiming to give these young students a taste and appreciation for financial needs in a business plan and operation. The course covers topics at a high level to give exposure to diverse elements of financial model and planning, including key elements of the business plan starting with Income Statement. Session broken into 2 dates providing time to learn the following topics:

Identify Sources and Types of Funding
Various Financial terms like Unit of Sale, Fixed Cost, Gross Profit, etc.
Various Financial Formulas like Break Even Analysis, ROI, etc.
Introduction to Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow statement
Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Credit (Personal and Business), Debt, Venture Capital
Taxation and Ethical Business Behavior

Topic 7 – Business Law

This session will provide the students with the overview of legal aspects of a business. Starting with defining the different types of corporations, the session will cover topics of contracts and intellectual property so that the students gain an appreciation for the legal requirements to launching and starting a business.

What are the key legal contracts and agreements?
Understand the different types of Corporations.
Intellectual Property Protection
TYE - TiE Young Entrepreneurs
A Global Entrepreneurship Competition for Teens
3rd September 2016 - 12th November 2016