Kid Boss Market
Achieve Academy Students Yearly Entrepreneurship Program
The Kid Boss Market is designed to help K-12 students learn the skills needed to start their own businesses. Since 2019, Achieve Academy has been focused on teaching its students, the Achievers, how to become entrepreneurs.
The Kid Boss Market program is fun and engaging and includes entrepreneurship skills from business planning, to marketing, to finance. The Kid Boss Market has been successful in helping hundreds of children learn about entrepreneurship. After this year’s program, 90% of our Kid Boss Market participants said that they had a better understanding of business. 80% of students said that they were more likely to start their own business after participating in the Kid Boss Market.
In addition to teaching success skills like hard work, organization, perseverance, and creativity, the Kid Boss Market teaches the entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on problem-solving, idea development, and business planning. Local entrepreneurs are invited into the program as teachers and mentors. Their entrepreneurial journey, personal story, creative expression, and experience are used to teach practical skills to the students.
The program concludes in an entrepreneurial marketplace in December and March that launches each business into the public arena. Local business owners, community organizers, students’ families, supporters of the school, and the general public are invited to come and shop with the students. The event is always an overwhelming success with local media coverage and positive feedback. The response of the participants to receiving the first income from their business makes a lasting impression and excites them about taking their efforts in entrepreneurship further.