8 and Up is a company that teaches entrepreneurship to children in a fun way through a 6-week program. During the program, children ages 8 and up develop their own business ideas with a $50 budget provided by their parents. The goal is to help kids learn skills like problem-solving, creativity and resilience by allowing them to start their own businesses and make mistakes. The company launched as a pilot in 2013 and is expanding to more cities to prepare the next generation for an innovation-driven world where they will need to create their own job opportunities and think of new ideas and questions.

1. Teaching the Next Generation of
Entrepreneurs
Digital Kids Education Conference || Museum of Children’s Creativity || 10/18/2013

2. What is 8 and Up?
• A company teaching entrepreneurship to kids in a
fun way.
• Launched a pilot Spring 2013
• Parents invest $50 in their child’s business
• Expanding to NY, SF and London

3. Our inspiration . . .

4. So who’s next?

5. How we define entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur changes the future by
asking . . . .

6. Inventions are just
things people made up!

7. Two rules for kid entrepreneurs
Make Mistakes

8. How it Works
$50 Budget6 Weeks
Design a Product And Have Fun!

9. Dreams of a 7 year old

10. Week 1
What is an
Entrepreneur?
Week 2
What the Big
Idea?
Week 3
Just Jump In!
Miskates

11. Week 4
Build a
Prototype
Week 5
Tell your
story
Week 6
Showtime!
Share the

12. Education changes when kids ask
“What If ?”

16. The Big Picture

17. The Bigger Picture

18. Why this matters
• Education has changed in the Google Age.
• Knowing answers matters less than asking
interesting questions.
• What will skills will matter in the world of 2023?

19. What the experts say. . . .
“Today, what you know matters far
less than what you can do with what
you know.”
“Our goal shouldn’t be to make every
students college-ready but innovation
ready.”

20. The Long View
“My generation had it easy –
we got to “find” a job”.
Increasingly, kids will need
to invent their jobs.”

21. We’re Small but Growing

22. Questions and Ideas
?

23. Thanks!
• For more info visit us at www.8andup.com or
follow us @8andup.com
• Email contact@8andup.com