Role Model Event at The UCL Academy

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Yxefdtilwtgcszvctnfcqe for 75 students at The UCL Academy aged Age 11 - 18.

Event description

This will be the second in a series of 30min MENTORING sessions with 12-18yr old students on 'product ideation'.

The subject is 'product/service ideation ' and In this session teams will come up with original ideas of products /services they would like to build during this project. Mentors are to facilitate this thought process and help students come up in brainstorming.

UCL Academy has created a mentoring programme that aims to give students the unique opportunity to work in teams and experience an authentic challenge by working with experienced successful business leaders and entrepreneurs on real projects.

By offering 30 minutes of your time as a mentor you will help the students gain experience that complements their academic and personal development in areas such as leadership, teamwork, resilience and meeting deadlines as well as running all aspects of a company and turning an idea to reality.

Two groups (of 36 students) of 12 - 18 year old students will come up with an idea for a product (digital or physical) , develop it and present it to key stakeholders (parents, Founders4Schools, mentors etc) at the end of the programme.

School tutors will be at hand to facilitate the sessions and ensure that the programme progresses and deliverables are ready for next week.
The first session is about how a company is structured and explain the different roles in a team from start-up and as it scales and grows. In collaboration with the tutor, you will help the students with allocation of roles that they will keep until the end of the programme.

The session is to start at 10.40 and end 11.10.