Enterprising Entrepreneurs

Through a range of dynamic activities, students will explore how entrepreneurs take their passions and turn them into successful businesses.

Using case studies of Western Australian entrepreneurs, this program will unpack the journey of success and identify skills and assets that enabled their businesses to thrive.

Working as a team, students will then develop their own ideas into a business opportunity.

Student experience

Students will: 

• Hear examples of entrepreneurship in the Rio Tinto Innovations Gallery and explore concepts of problem-solution fit, proof of market and scalability.
• Develop an entrepreneurial elevator pitch
• Further their ideas by following outlines such as value proposition charts  
• Present their ideas and ‘invest’ in other student ideas.

Program feedback

"Students were engaged. Great atmosphere created by facilitator. Delivery was excellent. Subject related to everyday life and meaningful exhibits in the museum tied in extremely well with the session."

Curriculum links

Programs at the WA Museum support teachers in their delivery of the WA Curriculum. This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum:

Year 7

• Design and Technologies
  Technologies and society: People in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors, social and ethical influences and existing technologies for designed solutions (WA7TDETS1)
  Design thinking skills:
  • Investigating and defining
    • Investigate and define the problem and requirements of a given design brief (WA7TDEDTID1)
    • Consider given technologies, resources and/or components to develop solutions (WA7TDEDTID3)
• HASS
  Economics and Business:
  • Consumers and businesses
    • How businesses respond to the changing tastes and preferences of consumers (WA7HAKUE3)
  • Innovation and enterprise
    • The concept of innovation and the ways businesses identify and respond to business opportunities (WA7HAKUE6)
    • The characteristics of entrepreneurs, including the behaviours and skills they bring to their businesses (WA7HAKUE7)

Year 8

• Design and Technologies
  Technologies and society: 

  • People design for change considering ethical and sustainable factors, available technologies and systems for designed solutions, locally and regionally (WA8TDETS1)
  • Products, services and/or environments are designed and developed with creative and innovative application of technologies (WA8TDETS2)

  Design thinking skills:

  • Project management
    • Plan, develop and communicate, using project management processes, considering time, resources and costs to achieve solutions (WA8TDEDTPM1)
  • Investigating and defining
    • Investigate a problem for a given need or opportunity (WA8TDEDTID1)
    • Develop a design brief for a given need or opportunity (WA8TDEDTID2)
    • Consider technologies, resources and/or components to develop solutions, identifying constraints (WA8TDEDTID3) 
       
• HASS
  Economics and Business:
  • Consumers and businesses
    • How businesses respond to the changing tastes and preferences of consumers (WA7HAKUE3)
  • Innovation and enterprise
    • The concept of innovation and the ways businesses identify and respond to business opportunities (WA7HAKUE6)
    • The characteristics of entrepreneurs, including 
       

Year 9

• Design and Technologies
  Technologies and society: 

  • People consider social, ethical and sustainable factors, and use specialised technologies for designed solutions to address community needs (WA9TDETS1)
  • Products, services and environments are designed and developed with consideration of economic factors and alternative technologies (WA9TDETS2)

  Design thinking skills:

  • Investigating and designing
    • Develop a design brief for a solution based on end user needs (WA9TDEDTID2) 
       
• HASS
  Economics and Business:
  • Opportunities, risks and rewards
    • How businesses seek to create and maintain a competitive advantage in a global and/or domestic market (WA9HAKUE4)
       

Year 10

• Design and Technologies
  Technologies and society: 

  • People consider social, ethical, sustainable and security factors to improve design and production systems using specialised technologies to achieve designed solutions (WA10TDETS1)
  • Products, services and environments are designed and developed with consideration of specialised occupations, economic and environmental factors to identify market opportunities, innovate, create and develop entrepreneurial behaviours (WA10TDETS2)

  Design thinking skills:

  • Investigating and designing
    • Ideate a problem and define the needs of the client/stakeholder through anecdotal evidence and/or data gathering techniques (WA10TDEDTID1)
    • Develop a design brief for a solution or to innovate an existing product, service or environment (WA10TDEDTID2)
       
• HASS
  Economics and Business:
  • The changing world of business
    • The role of ethical decision-making in production and consumption (WA10HAKUE8)
    • The way the work environment is changing in Australia and the implications for current and future work (WA10HAKUE9)

All facilitated workshops are led by the Museum’s experienced Learning and Engagement team and have been curated using the Museum’s unique resources to provide a deeper learning experience in our specialist subject areas.

Your booking for a facilitated workshop will include all materials and activities for the duration of the program with no prior preparation required.

As part of all facilitated workshop bookings, you are welcome to explore the rest of the Museum free of charge pre or post workshop and do not need to make any additional bookings to do so.  WA Museum Boola Bardip is open daily from 9.30am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm.