1. Youth-Led Tech Curriculum
Day 11: Young Entrepreneurs II
Content Goals: Youth will be continue to work on their site
Leadership Goals: Youth will learn more about entrepreneurship and get the
opportunity to practice sales technique.
Materials: Random items (for selling practice)
10:00 AM Sign-in
Use the online attendance sheet to mark students as present
and note any issues.
10:05 AM Mood Check/Icebreaker Question
It’s important to start every session with an opening activity, such
as a Mood Check-in, where students state their mood on a scale
of 1-10. We often pair this with an icebreaker question that each
student answers.
10:15 AM Who are you?
1. Ask for a volunteer to leave the room.
2. While the volunteer is away, the rest of the participants
decide on an occupation for him/her, such as a driver, or
a fisherman.
3. When the volunteer returns, the rest of the participants
mime activities. The volunteer must guess the occupation
that has been chosen for him/her from the activities that
are mimed.

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10:30 AM Sell me
Give students materials and tell them to build something and try
to sell it. At the end teachers will decide who the winning group
is.
1. Get in teams of 4 create a product (5 minutes)
2. Determine what the product does (3-5 min)
3. Make a commercial and pretend to sell it (3-5 min)
4. Present to everyone (5-10 min each team should only
have 1 minute or less)
5. Post products/commercials on Instagram and/or Twitter
#youthledtech
Teachers Explain: (5 min)
You just became entrepreneurs. You created a product and
attempted to sell it. You make your money.
Entrepreneurship has no age requirement. Anyone can be an
entrepreneur. You know your cousin that sells lemonade on your
block - they are an entrepreneur. Can anyone name some young
entrepreneurs?
Matching Game Activity
Students will walk around and try to match up entrepreneurs
with their descriptions. They are in a race to see who matches
them correctly first. After they are done they will sit down and we
will talk about each entrepreneur.
 Caine Monroy - He is an arcade owner 9 years. (Optional
video: http://cainesarcade.com/)
o 9-year-old Caine Monroy spent his summer
vacation building an elaborate cardboard arcade
inside his dad's used auto parts store. The entire
summer went by, and Caine had yet to have a
single customer. Then, on the last day of summer,
a filmmaker named Nirvan stopped to buy a door
handle for his car. Caine asked Nirvan to play, and
Nirvan bought a $2 FunPass, becoming Caine's
first customer. Inspired by Caine's creativity,
Nirvan came back to make a short film about
Caine's Arcade and organized a flashmob to
surprise Caine with lots of customers.
 Marc Zuckerberg- Facebook he was 22 when he created
this website worth billions of dollars.

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 Matt Mullenweg: American online social media
entrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San
Francisco. He is best known for developing the free and
open source web software WordPress, now managed by
The WordPress Foundation. His professional blog is ma.tt,
a domain hack.
o After dropping out of college and working at CNET
Networks from 2004 to 2005, Mullenweg quit that
job and founded Automattic, the business behind
WordPress.com (which provides free WordPress
blogs and other services), Akismet, Gravatar,
VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Polldaddy, and more.
 Jack Kim- He created a search engine that generates
donations as a teenager.
 Blake Ross: Created Firefox and sold the search engine at
19
 Leanna Archer: 9 years old when she created and sold
hair products made from secret recipe.
o Leanna Archer was just 9 years old when she
began bottling and selling her own hair pomade to
friends and family. Based on her great-
grandmother's secret recipe, Archer's line of all-
natural hair products has expanded to include a
variety of hair cleansers, conditioners and
treatments. The now-17-year-old serves as the CEO
of her company and has been recognized by
prominent business publications like Forbes and
Success Magazine. She even started the Leanna
Archer Education Foundation to help build schools
and safe learning environments for underprivileged
children in Haiti.
 Moziah Bridges: Creator of Mo’s Bows at the age of 11.
o Most young boys are revolted by the idea of getting
dressed up, but Moziah Bridges is a rare exception.
After being disappointed in the bow ties available
to him on the market, Bridges learned how to sew
his own with the help of his grandmother. The
fashion-forward 11-year-old began selling his
creations on Etsy, and his products were soon
picked up by boutiques in several southeastern
states. So far, Bridges has earned over $30,000
from his bow ties, and told Forbes that he
eventually plans to start a children's clothing
company.
 Ashley Qualls: At 14 she created a website called

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whateverlife.com
o Originally as a hobby, in 2004 at age 14, she
started a website called whateverlife.com,
designed to provide free Myspace layouts and
HTML tutorials for people in her age demographic,
and supported entirely by advertising revenue. The
basement of her home is her office. In addition to
employing her mother, she employs friends from
school. The website receives several times more
traffic than circulations for popular teen magazines
Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and CosmoGirl! combined.
o Qualls has turned down numerous offers to acquire
her company including an offer for 1.5 million
dollars and her choice of any car. In September
2006 she paid cash for a $250,000 home in a
fenced-off subdivision in the community of
Southgate. She lives there with her mother Linda
LaBreque and younger sister Shelby. At the age of
17, she obtained legal emancipation, giving her
the same legal status as an adult.
 Pete Cashmore- He created a blog called mashable.com
 David Karp- He is the founder and CEO of the short-form
blogging platform Tumblr.[3][4] According to Forbes, Karp's
net worth exceeds $200 million, and Tumblr has been
valued at $800 million.[1] On May 20, 2013, it was
announced that Yahoo! and Tumblr had reached an
agreement for Yahoo! to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion.
Karp would remain as CEO of the company.
o Karp began his career as an intern under Fred
Seibert at the animation company Frederator
Studios, where he built the studio's first blogging
platform and conceived, wrote, and edited their
first internet video network, Channel Frederator.
Karp went on to work for online parenting forum
UrbanBaby until it was sold to CNET in 2006. Karp
then started his own software consulting company,
Davidville, where he worked with computer
engineer Marco Arment on projects for clients.
o During a gap between contracts in 2006, the two
began work on a microblogging website, which was
launched as Tumblr in February 2007. As of June
1, 2015, Tumblr hosts over 238.8 million blogs.[6]
In August 2009, Karp was named Best Young Tech
Entrepreneur 2009 by BusinessWeek[7] and in
2010, he was named to the MIT Technology

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Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the
world under the age of 35.[
11:30 AM Break
11:45 AM Howdy Howdy
Participants stand in a circle. One person walks around the
outside of the circle and taps someone on the shoulder. That
person walks the opposite way around the circle, until the two
people meet. They greet each other three times by name, in their
own language. The two people then race back, continuing in
opposite directions around the circle, to take the empty place.
Whoever loses walks around the outside of the circle again and
the game continues until everyone has had a turn.
12 NOON Lunch
1:00 PM What Kind of Animal
1. Ask participants to divide into pairs and to form a circle.
Put enough chairs in the circle so that all but one pair has
seats. Each pair secretly decides what type of animal they
are.
2. The two participants without chairs are the elephants.
They walk around the circle calling the names of different
animals. Whenever they guess correctly, the animals
named have to stand up and walk behind the elephants,
walking in mime. This continues until the elephants can
guess no more.
3. Then they call “Lions!” and all pairs run for seats. The pair
left without chairs become the elephants for the next
round.
1:15 PM Typing club
1. Log on to http://youthledtech.typingclub.com
2. Allow youth to practice/develop their typing skills. This
could be a useful time for facilitators to catch up on
paperwork or setup for the next activity
3. Facilitators can track the students progress to make sure
that they are actually on the right site
2:10 PM Break
2:20 PM Young Entrepreneurs
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoqohmccTSc
 Group discussion
 What advice did they give that stuck with you?

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 How did they get their start?
 What group/s of people were missing from this video?
Why do you think that is?
 What lessons can we learn about their success to help us
be successful?
3:00 PM WordPress
Allow youth to add content and make changes to their pages
3:30 PM Thunder Props reflection
1. Everyone log on to your Twitter account
2. Today we are going to give props to our peers in the
#youthledtech program
3. We have created a prompt for you to fill in on your Twitter
account and on 3 we will all send our tweets at the same
time.
a. PROMPT: “My app will address_______ because
___________ #youthledtech”
b. Make sure they use the hashtag so that we can
view all of the tweets
4. READY??
5. After you read the prompt give students 1 minute to
complete and tell them to raise their hand once they have
typed their message. Tell them “DO NOT hit send until I
say so.”
6. Once everyone has constructed their tweet then count
down 3, 2, 1, SEND!!
3:55 PM Sign out
Make sure each youth is accounted for.