Launch your very own flagship after school entrepreneurship program (Stages 4-6)
Featuring Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney
Over three years of close collaboration between Young Wisdom and Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College
In 2021, Monte already had an established suite of innovative co-curricular Industry Programs involving corporate collaborations and 1-day deep dives into topics such as design thinking, robotics, or careers in engineering and construction.
There was clear appetite for a structured, ongoing entrepreneurship program within the school community, with several students already operating micro businesses and social enterprises. It was a natural fit and the results to date have been thrilling.
Since then, we have successfully delivered two full cycles of the flagship program with a third about to kick off (October 2023).
130+
Students joined the programs
50+
Startups formed organically
16
Weeks of workshops per cycle
18-20
Guest speakers per cycle
In-person sessions
Monte Entrepreneurs meet after school from 3:30 to 5:30 pm to go through the week’s content, hear from a guest speaker, and work independently on their startup projects with help from program staff.
These sessions are an important opportunity for students to collaborate with their team members in-person and make significant progress.
Regular face-to-face sessions are the cornerstone of a successful flagship program.
Virtual sessions
We also offer live online sessions for the benefit of program participants, involving content delivery, guest speaker interviews, and interactive learning experiences using tools such as Kahoot!.
Although we were initially forced into online delivery during covid lockdowns, we plan to keep offering this format to all partner schools and those in regional and rural areas.
We aim to make our content truly accessible in every sense.
A fully-fledged program in a box for internal champions to run with
The Monte Entrepreneurs program would not be possible without close, weekly collaboration with internal stakeholders - especially the Industry Programs team. We aren’t extra-curricular providers to be kept at arm’s length; we are all about partnering with internal teaching and professional staff to create and deliver programs unique to each school community. If you have an internal entrepreneurship champion or team, we can do the rest!
We offer everything you will need to design, launch and run your own entrepreneurship program at your school:
Program Design & Delivery
Collaborative design
Scope & sequence
Workshop facilitation
Sourcing guest speakers
Administration & Communications
Executive proposal
Board or executive reports
Student & parent communications
Internal & external codes of conduct
Data Management & Content
Feedback surveys
Startup data management
Video and PowerPoint learning materials
Multimedia promotional materials
Why Young Wisdom
Young Wisdom was first registered in 2007 while our founder Shahe Momdjian was in high school at North Sydney Boys. The idea was to bring the brilliance and ingenuity of young people to the corporate world and broader community in the form of exciting new products and services. Young Wisdom was reborn in 2021 with the very same mission.
Shahe’s varied career in-between has provided the skills, experience, team and connections to make it possible on a large scale. We’re comfortable pitching to executives in boardrooms, working with students 1:1 (or 75:1), creating lofty strategic plans, and then rolling up sleeves to rearrange desks - we can do it all with competence, humility and care.
“I’m just so grateful that this program is off the ground, getting students engaged and doing what we set out to achieve...”
Express your interest for a sneak peek at one of our weekly sessions
Included: 1 x 30 min seminar by Shahe on weekly topic + 1 x 30 min interview with a guest startup founder