[orangewarp]

This is a good idea being that the concepts of startup thinking can probably transfer over. That said, it might be even better to use the badge acquisition as a stepping stone toward the real experience and have them do it like the article after, so they can understand how the different contexts affects their assumptions.

When I was in middle school all we had in terms of understanding "business" was an annual pushcart fair where most of the kids just chose to sell gobstoppers and we call it a day. This program seems to go more in depth in terms of giving these kids a genuine problem, having them think, communicate, and plan their actions, and most of all, putting their theories of business to the test with real world results they can use to assess their predictions of the world. These types of applicable real world activities WITH resulting data to challenge ones understanding is crucial. Probably why for us older kids with startup dreams, it's so important to just do something rather than just think/talk only about tech projects and ideas. The earlier one gets real projects out (first foray need not be perfect) and starts getting real user results the earlier we can test our assumptions and adapt, grow.