PARENT'S PORTAL
If your student is enrolled in a Project ECHO entrepreneurship program, you're at the right place!
Since its inception in 1996, Launching ECHO has offered a comprehensive business and entrepreneurship program designed for teenagers. Our program culminates with a formal business plan competition, where students get to showcase their newfound skills. At Launching ECHO, we prepare young adults to succeed in a dynamic global marketplace.
Empower Growth
Your student's school has licensed Project ECHO's entrepreneurship program to enrich their classroom-based educational experience. Your students will participate in a robust program where they will be challenged to:
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Ideate a solution to a community-based problem
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Develop a business team with their peers, and adopt a C-suite role focused on their academic strengths and career interests.
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Prototype the solution through an array of opportunities such as 3-D modeling, photography, drafting a website, or designing an app.
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Working together, teams will research their market, create marketing and operations planse, develop a financial analysis of their including start-up costs to profits, prepare a full "Shark-Tank" style pitch and presentation deck.
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Publish a written business plan, generally 10-20 pages.
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Compete for cash start up funds (aka college scholarships) at the High School Entrepreneurs' Business Plan Competition
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And along the way, your teens will learn life skills such as active listening, compromising, team work, public speaking, and so much more!
Stay Informed!
Join our parent newsletter to stay informed of the student events, and receive an invitation to the High School Entrepreneurs' Business Plan Competition, a hybrid event hosted at Loyola Marymount University in addition to Zoom for our out-of-area participants.