
TASTER PROGRAM
An intensive business taster program for creative teens (10-17 years old) that sees them create a micro-business, logo, hand-made products and test their products at a real-world market.

MAKER2MARKET ™ TASTER PROGRAM IN CANBERRA + QUEENSLAND
Our Maker2Market™ taster program is for young people (aged 10-17) who are creative, love making things, probably been tinkering for a while, and have the aspiration to start their own business.
This business taster builds life and crucial 21st-century skills and entrepreneurial mindset through a real-world, intensive business life cycle experience.
Our three-day experience empowers participants to explore their passion, create a business and test the value of their products and inventions with real customers.
Learn, develop and execute a range of skills:
- Problem-solve and gain an understanding of key business concepts
- Identify an ideal customer with a problem you want to solve
- Prototype and then create a hand-made product from scratch
- Create a logo using online software
- Pitch, critique, and present
- Conduct market research
- Create up to 20 products to take to market day through an intensive Maker session.
- Develop a product costing and hone financial literacy skills
- Develop merchandising and customer sales skills
- Participate in a real market day experience to test products with real customers at Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston (Cbr).
Three-day program cost: $300 ( inc GST)
+ BYO your own materials or choose a materials package when completing the enrolment form so your young person has materials when developing their prototype and desired products/product range for market day.
COMING UP …
JANUARY 2024 PROGRAM 1
2-day Workshop dates: Thurs, January 11 + Friday, January 12 @ Building 7, Canberra University, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bruce. 9.30am - 4pm (both days)
Market Day: Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston on Sunday, January 14 from 9.00am - 2.30pm
JANUARY 2024 TASTER EXPERIENCE:
2-day Workshop dates: Tuesday, January 16 + Wednesday, January 17 @ Canberra University, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bruce. 9.30am - 4pm (both days)
Market Day: Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston on Sunday, January 21 from 9.00am - 2.30pm
TERM 1 HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM:
Workshop dates: Mon, Feb 12, 19, 26 from 10-1pm. Maker Session: March 3 from 10am - 1pm.
Market Day: Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston on Sunday, March 18 from 9.00am - 2.30pm.