How To Start A Side Hustle

Finding Ways To Start Making Money While You're Still In School

Themes:

BusinessCareersEntrepreneurship

Length:

Half DayOne DayOne HourTwo Hours

About The Program

The How To Start A Side Hustle Program is a hands-on entrepreneurship experience that shows students how they can turn their skills, interests and ideas into their own small business while they are still at school. Through fast-paced activities and practical business challenges, students will generate new ideas, identify potential customers and explore the foundations needed to turn an idea into a product or service.

Designed to make entrepreneurship practical and achievable, the program helps students build confidence in creativity, communication and business thinking as they develop their own side hustle concept. Along the way, students will explore branding, marketing, pricing, customer needs and minimum viable products while discovering how entrepreneurial skills can support them in school, future careers and their own business ventures.

Workshop Themes Include:

Rapid Ideation & Business Ideas Students participate in a fast-paced ideation challenge designed to generate a range of potential side hustle ideas based on problems, passions, skills and opportunities.
Customers & Business Models Students identify who their business is designed for, explore customer needs and develop a simple business model outlining how their side hustle could create value and make money.
Branding, Marketing & Pricing Students develop the foundations of their brand while exploring how they could promote, position and price their product or service for their target customer.
Minimum Viable Products & Pitching Students develop a simple version of their product or service before bringing their business idea together in a short pitch explaining what it is, who it is for and why customers would choose it.

Students can develop a completely new side hustle during the program or use the workshop to further develop an existing business idea. Longer sessions can also provide students with additional time to develop their branding, products, marketing strategies and pitches.

The program is also a great way to kick-start a new Business or Entrepreneurship unit, build cohort-wide excitement around Business as a future elective, or prepare students for an upcoming school market, enterprise day or fundraising initiative. It can also be delivered ahead of the school holidays to challenge students to turn their idea into a real holiday side project and put their new entrepreneurial skills into practice.

Program Outcomes:

By the end of the program, students will:

Develop confidence in creativity, communication and entrepreneurial thinking
Strengthen ideation, problem-solving and business development skills
Build an understanding of customers, branding, marketing and pricing
Explore how personal interests and skills can be turned into potential income streams
Develop and pitch an original side hustle concept

Every program can be tailored to suit the specific goals and expected outcomes of your classroom. Whether you are introducing entrepreneurship, preparing students for business assessments, enterprise competitions, market days, project-based learning or future career pathways, our team can adapt the experience to align with your students, learning objectives and school priorities.

Age Group

This program has been designed for High School students and is recommended specifically for Grade 7-12 students.

Program Length

This program can be adapted in length to run for one hour, two hours, or half a day in length.

Longer programs allow students to further develop their skills and dive deeper as they bring their ideas to life. Shorter programs are great as a taster experience for students touching lightly on the key topics.

Topics Covered

In this program we will be covering the following topics:

Curriculum Alignment Opportunities

This program compliments the following content descriptors in the Australian Curriculum:

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Case Studies

Our How To Start A Side Hustle program is an incredibly popular workshop with schools around the world using it as a way to spark and entrepreneurial spirit within their students, showing them how they can turn their passions into income streams.

Examples of how schools have utilised this program in the past include:

Northholm Grammar School | Year 10: A two hour masterclass at the end of the term to show students how they can turn their passions into income streams.

St Mary's Anglican Girls School | Year 9: A 90 minute masterclass as part of a half day program to show students the value of entrepreneurship skills.

Methodist Ladies' College | Year 10: A 90 minute masterclass at the end of a multi-day program to show students the value of entrepreneurship in their career pathways.

We understand that ever school and class are different which is why we work to tailor every program we deliver to fit your context.

Classroom Resources

If this program has caught your eye, you might also be interested in some of our classroom resources. These resources have been designed by our team of innovative educators to help you deliver inspiring and engaging learning experiences in your classroom. Resources related to this program include:

Business Builders Activity Pack: A +30 page resource for young people to help them build their own small business. This activity pack is complete with templates, case studies, and a diverse range of challenges to support them along their journey. Click here to find out more.

Pitching Resource Bundle: A resource bundle complete with case studies, activities, and templates to help your students develop their pitching skills. Click here to find out more.

Young Entrepreneurs Starter Kit: A free resources designed to help students build the foundations of their business idea. Click here to find out more.

Future Of Retail Unit Of Work: A 10 lesson unit of work that will see students redesigning the online and in-store experience for one of their favourite retail brands. Click here to find out more.

Other Programs

If you're looking to help students in your community develop their skills in entrepreneurship and business, we'd also recommend checking out the following programs:

Pitching Masterclass: In our Pitching Masterclass, we will be working with students to look at how they can build engaging pitches for their ideas, businesses and projects as they work on the structure, presentation style, and audience engagement techniques. Click here to find out more.

Business Builders: As part of our Business Builders program, we will be working with students to follow their interests and grow their ideas into a tangible product or service, giving them a way to bring their ideas to life, whilst also making money doing so. Click here to find out more.

Ideas Incubator: The Ideas Incubator program is designed to guide students through the early stages of brainstorming and developing a business concept. Students will be participating in a design sprint to generate ideas in a short period of time. Click here to find out more.

To explore our full range of workshop programs, make sure to check out our program library by heading to: www.bopindustries.com/programs

About BOP Industries

BOP Industries is an Australian education company on a mission to inspire the next generation of young innovators.

Run by a passionate team of innovative educators, we work with government, industry, and schools to deliver workshops, masterclasses, professional development, and competitions designed to help inspire and engage primary and high school students around the world. Since beginning our work in the education space in 2018, we have worked with over 100,000 students in 36 cities across Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and North America. To find out more about BOP and the schools we work with, head to: www.bopindustries.com/about-us

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