Early Admission to INDUSTRIALIZATION 5.0

 Entrepreneurship & AI: Build Your Future

7-8:30PM ET June 26, July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 21, 28

AI is already changing the world—automating tasks, generating new ideas, and helping people work faster and smarter. From writing code to designing products and running businesses, AI is becoming the ultimate teammate in every industry. 

While schools may be banning AI, everyone knows that teaching students is about preparing them for the future and not the past. Successful individuals will not be employees but managers of teams of AIs.

That’s why we created the Entrepreneurship & AI Program, where students won’t just learn about the future—they’ll build it.

In just 1.5 hours a day, students will learn how to learn how to:

• Turn your ideas into real businesses 🧠
• Use AI tools like your own team of employees 🤖
• Become a manager of AIs—just like adults managed people in their generation 👔
• Solve real problems in a school or community—and make money doing it 💡

Let’s go from “AI is banned” to “AI is your superpower.”

What students will learn?

• How to build and develop their own business 
• How to use AI tools as teams of employees to accomplish business tasks
• How to become managers of AIs, just as previous generations learned to become managers of people
• How to creative ideate to build economically valuable solutions to problems
• To develop a positive mindset towards AI

What will students accomplish?

• Students will develop a basic business they can use for college applications and interviews
• Students will prepare themselves for a future where the number of entrepreneurs may exceed the number of employees.
• Students will earn certificates recognizing their completion from “MIT Technology Review + Study Hall AI.”
• An opportunity to publish an article about their journey

What additional opportunities will it create?

• Build foundational knowledge for our year-round program
• Demonstrate knowledge of AI, a general purpose technology that is likely to restructure the economy and society
• Move on from “AI prohibited” to “AI enabled”

• Introduction to entrepreneurship: What it means, myths vs. reality, and teen entrepreneur examples
• Entrepreneurial mindset activities: Problem-spotting exercise in school/community
• Introduction to AI tools for entrepreneurs: Overview of AI tools such as Ideogram, Gemini, Replit and other beginner-friendly tools

• Problem identification frameworks: How to spot opportunities in everyday challenges
• Market research basics: How to determine if a problem is worth solving

• Understanding your users: Creating basic user personas
• Interview techniques: How to ask good questions and get useful feedback
• Using AI to create interview guides and analyze responses

• Brainstorming techniques for solution development
• Introduction to simple business models: How businesses make money
• Using AI to evaluate different solution approaches

• Introduction to MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) and prototyping
• How AI can help design and develop prototypes faster
• Workshop: Creating a paper or digital prototype of their solution

• Basics of startup marketing: How to tell your story
• Using AI for content creation and social media planning
• Creating a simple value proposition with AI help
• Activity: Design a mini marketing campaign for their concept

• 25 min: Simple startup financials: Understanding costs, pricing, and profit
• 20 min: Basic operational considerations for teen entrepreneurs
• 25 min: Using AI to help with financial projections and planning
• 20 min: Exercise: Create a basic budget and pricing strategy for their idea

• Elements of an effective pitch
• Using AI to refine and practice pitches
• Mini-pitch presentations (1-2 minutes each)
• Resources for continuing their entrepreneurial journey and next steps