LAUNCH's High School Entrepreneurship Program serves schools and students in Hamilton County, Tennessee and Walker, Whitfield and Catoosa counties in Georgia. The program seeks to engage interested and motivated students with a simulated entrepreneurship experience that provides real-world lessons they'll need to successfully start their own business.
Over the course of a semester, this program allows students to experience the Kitchen Incubator of Chattanooga, to engage with entrepreneurs from the community, tour food trucks and see what skills are necessary to start a business. Additionally the LAUNCH team offers modules on business fundamentals like market opportunities, innovation, viability, feasibility, and business plan development with students at their schools.
By the end of the semester, students have had the opportunity to experience entrepreneurship in a way that prepares them for the real thing. Watching these young entrepreneurs consider the businesses of the future and their part in it, is incredibly inspiring!