Students at a high school in Ohio are participating in a new type of club that provides authentic work experiences creating websites, videos, and training adults. Called Foundry10, the club treats students like employees of a real startup company, giving them responsibilities as "project leads" to take on client work for donations that fund new projects. Students experience both successes when their work is viewed publicly and helps clients' businesses, as well as failures when mistakes happen that must be addressed. The goal is to change students' perspectives and give them skills in technical areas, small business practices, and teaching others while being mentored by professionals.

1. A New Take On School Clubs
http://youtu.be/LTD-F_WMVc8?list=UUt4amuK6_nEr88ya5YoQumA

2. Why
?
How?
What?
The
Golden
Circle

3. Why? (Organization Level)
To change
perspective &
expectations.

4. How? (Organization Level)
Students experience authentic successes
and failures as a
“Project Lead”.

5. What? (Organization Level)
Students create:
- web sites
- video productions
- train adults in software.

6. Break Down The Barriers

8. It’s Real.
● Real donations
o Independent account
o Students dictate purchases
● Real successes
o Work viewed by the public
o reflects on clients business
● Real failures
o “Uh, I broke their website”

9. 4 Critical Elements
● Trust
o mutually
● Technical Skill
● Small Business mindset
o marketing
o persevere through failure
● Teaching mentality
o Transferring skills to students

10. Future?
● Foundry10 research partner (Valve)
● AEDG (Allen Co. Econ Development Group)
o Expanding to more schools
● OETC
o session with students