MAKER2MARKET ™ SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM IN CANBERRA + QUEENSLAND
Our Maker2Market™ holiday program is for young people (aged 10-17) who are creative, love making things, have probably been tinkering for a while and have the aspiration to start their own business.
This business taster builds life skills and develops crucial 21st-century skills and entrepreneurial mindset through a real-world, intensive business life cycle experience.
Over three days participants 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-solving and key business concepts
- Identify an ideal customer
- Steps to take a product to market including general prototyping and then creating a hand-made product from scratch
- Logo creation using online software
- Pitching, critique, and market research skills
- Creating up to 20 products to take to market day through an intensive Maker session.
- Developing a product costing and honing financial literacy skills
- Developing merchandising and customer sales skills
- Participating in a real market day experience to test products with real customers at Old Bus Depot Markets (Cbr) or Eumundi Square (Sunshine Coast, QLD).
Cost of three-day program: $220 ( 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.
Participants receive upon completion of the Maker2Market Taster program:
- Invitation to join the M2M Pick your path program to attend market and maker days throughout for 12 months at a reduced rate so you can continue to test skills and products.
For more information, contact: Charuni Weerasooriya on 0416094172 or email: admin@edii.com.au
Testimonials
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"My son has continued in leaps and bounds since the program. It's been really rewarding watching the creativity, innovation and confidence build and build in him." -
"Excellent hands-on experience, guided structure, great exposure to business concepts"
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"After making over $290, my daughter is self-funding her hobby business and bubbling with new ideas to try next time."
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"My daughter loved this program! I highly recommend it for kids who are innovative and interested in making money"
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"Love, love, love! There'll be a generation of kids who're destined for success because of this program! Our daughter was so inspired by your course!"
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I was blown away with how much was learned n three days, the kids learned so much and had so much fun - edii’s way of learning really works
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"My kids really enjoyed the Maker2Market program. They had fun, made some new friends and are already talking about doing it again next holidays."
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"My son has always loved tinkering, this course was perfect for him and taught him some valuable lessons in testing his products and marketing." -
"Our daughter was so inspired by your course!"
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"Learning by doing suited how my son learns best -thanks for a great program!"
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"Thank you so much, my daughter never thought she could make money from something she loves doing and here she is now doing it!"
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"Learning this way is so much fun!"
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"I always loved making things but I didn't think I could turn it into a business until I did the Maker2Market program" -
"My mum saw the course advertised. I didn't really want to go to a school holiday program but I'm glad I did - I loved it!" -
"I've done the course 3 times and each time I feel like I learn new stuff to try with my business"
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"I always thought I'd get a part-time job when I was 16. Now I think I'll just keep doing products and selling at markets"
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"I was able to make money doing something I really love doing”
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"I really enjoyed the Maker2Market experience, can’t wait to do it again”
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"It's a great course, I am using the problem-solving techniques and design thinking steps in loads of other things I do"
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"Learning a business model that I can use for my creations is really helpful”
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"I'd never really understood the marketing and promotion side of business and now I do"
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"Making products was my favorite part and seeing whether I had got my ideal customer right on market day"
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"Market day was my favorite part but I really liked all three days a lot”
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"I'm going to try this again next holidays"
QLD: Eumundi Square Markets
CANBERRA: Old Bus Depot Markets
