What is Entrepreneurial Adventure?

The Goals and Vision of the Program

The Learning Partnership’s “EA” experience is a hands-on entrepreneurial journey. It’s about sparking students’ natural curiosity, abilities and passion to seize an opportunity – and in the process, learning to make the most of resources and community networks, engaging others and discovering just what they can do!

Each venture is a unique, local partnership open to K – 12 students, teachers and business partner volunteers. Supported by a rich network of fellow EA participants, and TLP’s resources across Canada, students are able to “live” their curriculum while turning their ideas into reality.

The Learning Partnership’s Regional Entrepreneurial Adventure (EA) Program has been designed to instill a sense of entrepreneurial spirit in children from kindergarten to Grade 12. It is the goal of the program to harness local resources and to provide students with a foundation of knowledge that will allow them to envision, create and operate their own entrepreneurial undertakings.

Entrepreneurial Adventure Goals

 Enhance critical and creative thinking 
 Cultivate the spirit of adventure and enterprise, risk and reward, and sense of satisfaction that come from transforming an idea into reality 
 Promote self-reliance through transforming an idea into reality 
 Experience collaboration and team work
 Develop project and time management skills
 Develop leadership and collaborative skills (ability to lead a team and work within a team)

Find out about Entrepreneurial Adventure through the eyes of a Business Partner:

 Benefits of the Entrepreneurial Adventure Program

The program benefits not just the teachers, business partner volunteers and students, but the communities in which it is developed. The entrepreneurial ventures become a point of pride for communities and generally result in funds being raised to support special causes. By instilling a sense of entrepreneurial adventure in the students, the program also opens the door for economic development and innovative projects to occur in communities and could effectively reduce the amount of youth out-migration by illustrating the boundless opportunities that an entrepreneurial venture provides.

The program is about collaborations – between teachers and students, students and business partner volunteers, and the participants and their community. There are numerous benefits for each of the partner groups that become involved in the Entrepreneurial Adventure Program.

Benefits to Educators

 Help students develop important life skills (leadership, teamwork, time management, etc. 
 Teach students to be creative, strategic thinkers 
 An innovative approach to traditional instruction that will engage all learning styles 

Benefits to Business Partner Volunteers 

 Share your knowledge and expertise 
 Give back to youth in your community 
 Help students to explore opportunities in your own community 
 Make a valuable contribution to education

Entrepreneurial Adventure Governing Principles

 Student Experience: (EA) is about taking an entrepreneurial journey that allows students to learn from the experience of turning their own ideas into reality. It’s all about being enterprising! (It’s not about “how-to-start-a-business”.)

 Partnership: An (EA) journey is based on creating an entrepreneurial environment for everyone. (EA) is about bringing together students, teachers and business partners with a passion for a good idea and building an effective partnership team to make it happen.

 Accessing Community Networks: Like any successful entrepreneurial venture, (EA) partners achieve success by learning to make the most of available resources and community networks to support them throughout their venture (i.e., (EA) events, programs, resource materials, alumni and fellow participants on the journey!)

 Curriculum Focused: (EA) experience is solidly linked to the curriculum and it integrates a variety of curricular areas. Not only are students learning about mathematics, language arts, social studies, science and technology but also about interpersonal relationships, cooperative and collaborative learning, meeting timelines and following through on commitments, all important life skills.