At a high school in Redmond, WA, students change the world by creating startups. Through this process, they learn human-centered design and empathy, wrapped up with engineering, business, and entrepreneurship. While designing for specific customers, they are exposed to authentic design frameworks and tools that help them create better products and businesses. And, every step of the way, they engage with industry partners as speakers, facilitators, mentors, and judges.
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STEM Startups: Teaching High School Students Design through Entrepreneurship - IxDA 2019
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High School Students Create Startups
Teaching Design in an Interdisciplinary
Engineering and Entrepreneurship Class
Melanie Kong | mjkong@gmail.com | @stemstartups
- Engineering and Entrepreneurship Teacher at Tesla STEM High School
- Co-founder and CEO of Floop
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“The people who are crazy enough
to think that they can change the
world are the ones who do.”
- Steve Jobs
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STEM
Startups
also known as Engineering 3 at the
Tesla STEM High School
Introducing STEM Startups, a yearlong course where students learn
design, engineering, and business through creating startups.
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What?
● Develop technical, business, and people
skills and processes
● Crawl, Walk, Run - Practice different
components of startups before running with
the real idea
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Course Timeline
People BusinessTechnical
Startup - Practice Round
Startup Phase I: Story
Startup Phase II: Demo
Startup Phase III: MVP
Nov - Jan
Jan - Feb
Feb - Mar
Apr - May
Q1 Kickoff Challenges
Sept - Nov
Q2 Practice Startup
Q3 - Q4 Real Startup
Startup Ecosystem Find Your Story
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How to Build Industry Connections
1. Find industry professionals
- Events, meetups, parent community
2. Build relationships with professionals
3. Expand your networks
- Referrals from mentors and students
Drop-in
Mentoring or
Judging
Guest Speaking Workshop
Long-term
Mentoring
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I truly appreciate your approach to involving
industry experts in teaching your classes.
Students are getting exposed to the industry
concepts early on, and the industry ultimately
gets better professionals who have the
right mindset formed at the right time.
- Lada Gorlenko
Experience Research Director at Smartsheet
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What I’ve Learned:
- Value young minds and shape them early
- Build connections between education and industry
- Embrace unexpected and interdisciplinary places to
teach design
- High school students CAN change the world
Thank you! - Melanie Kong, mjkong@gmail.com