The School Business Start program has already covered about 7,000 Tatarstan schoolchildren
The School Business Start project team continues its journey through the Republic of Tatarstan. Entrepreneurial skills training in the format of a business game, which began on October 3, has already covered 6,712 students in grades 5-7. Classes were held in Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Zelenodolsk, Alekseevsky, Laishevsky, Menzelinsky, Zainsk. Bugulma, Vysokogorsk, Nizhnekamsk districts. There are 2 more weeks of intensive training ahead.
The business game became the second stage of the project, at the first stage Tatarstan teachers were trained according to the program developed by the Institute for the Development of Education. As part of the business game, schoolchildren, divided into groups of 60 people, draw up a portrait of an entrepreneur and undergo special testing, as well as present their own projects, having previously prepared a business plan and developed a PR campaign. Thus, students will be able to try themselves as business creators, as well as learn how to work in a team. A total of 12,000 schoolchildren will attend classes by the end of October.
In parallel with the classes, the organizers are preparing for the next stage of the project. Recall that schoolchildren who successfully cope with the business game will undergo in-depth training in theoretical and practical skills of entrepreneurial activity. These will be training team seminars in which school companies will take part. Upon their completion, the participants will present their projects to expert entrepreneurs. Students who pass this stage will advance to the next level of the project. Before the New Year, they will take part in a charity school fair, and then a business case championship.
The final gathering of school business companies is scheduled for April 2023. It will be attended by 40 teams, in which 120 students will compete. All of them will have a unique experience.
The organizers of the School Business Start project were the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. The program is implemented within the framework of the National Project "Small and Medium Enterprises and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiatives".