Build your Tech Startup
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| Learning Hours: | 25 hours |
| Domain: | Web development, app development |
| Key Skills: | Planning, collaboration, research, project management, public speaking |
| Assessment: | No formal assessment |
| Hardware/System Requirements: | |
| Progression: | Game Developer 102 |
Course Overview
For aspiring technologists, this start-up course teaches students about cutting-edge new technologies to help them innovate a fresh new tech startup idea.
Starting with fundamentals of technology, students will learn how programming works using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Following this, students will identify a real-world problem that they would like to solve. Through design thinking activities and their newly acquired coding skills, they will design and prototype a working tech solution. Working independently or in small teams, students will then develop a business plan, company brand, and digital online presence.
At the end of the course, students will have created a tech prototype, a business plan presented as a website and a business blog.
Explore new technologies that entrepreneurs use to develop business ideas using the same technologies that empower the major tech companies of today.
Learn the tools that entrepreneurs use to launch businesses, like design thinking, advertising, coding, marketing and brand development.
Create a single-page website to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript, then prototype a business website and a digital portfolio that can be shared online. Use what you learn to launch your own business.
| Project | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
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Technology of the Future |
Students will explore emerging technologies like AI, VR and Robotics to help them think of technology themes that could be applied to a business startup idea. |
2 hours |
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Business Brainstorm |
Students will explore business ideas and begin to develop their own startup by planning out the necessary elements on a webpage. |
4 hours |
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Business Branding |
Students will develop a brand profile for their business startup, including a business logo, mission statement, slogan and a colour palette. |
4 hours |
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Business Website |
Students will develop a multi-page website for their startup that includes the element from the Business Branding project. |
5 hours |
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Business Advertising |
Students will learn about business marketing practices and make a blog advertisement that can be shared on the Multi-page Website. |
5 hours |
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Business Pitch |
Students will learn about how to present a startup pitch and deliver a final presentation of their business idea, website and blog. |
5 hours |