Entrepreneurship education, without a new subject to design.
Students build a real business inside the app, one decision at a time. Your school gets a ready partnership, not another programme to staff.
- Ages
- 8 to 18, elementary to preparatory
- Languages
- English and Amharic
- Fees your school collects
- None
What your school gets.
Two things, and no work that involves money.
A share of every enrolment
For every student from your school who enrols, The Kidpreneur remits your school’s share to you, with an enrolment report showing who joined.
Certificates with your school’s name
Students who complete the programme receive a certificate carrying your school’s name alongside ours.
No fees to collect
Parents pay The Kidpreneur directly. No collection, no invoicing and no money handled by your staff.
What students do.
Grade-banded from elementary through preparatory school, so the tone and difficulty grow with your students. Each mode opens the next.
Quest Mode
Ten stages of a business each student chose. A customer, a supplier or a problem turns up at each stage, and every choice changes their Birr balance.
Practice with money, customers and trade-offs.
Who: All grades
Builder Mode
Nine blocks of a business model, one question at a time, with Birrhanu pushing back on vague answers.
A complete business plan each student can present.
Who: All grades
Startup Mode
Students pick one idea, test it with practice customers played by the AI and change it based on what they learn.
Practice at testing an idea, before any money is spent.
Who: Older students
How a cohort starts.
A cohort is one class or grade at your school, taken through the programme together. Five steps, and your staff never touch money.
01
A call with us
We agree on the grade, the class size and a start date that fits your timetable.
02
Parents hear about it
You send home the parent letter we give you. Interested parents sign a letter of intent online, so you see the demand before anything starts.
See the parent letter of intent03
Parents enrol and pay us
Each family enrols their child and pays The Kidpreneur directly. Nothing passes through the school.
04
Four Saturday sessions
A teacher runs each session from one page on the classroom screen. Between sessions, students keep playing at home.
05
Share and certificates
We remit your school’s share with the enrolment report. Students who finish receive certificates with your school’s name.
The four sessions
Week 1 of 4
Spot the need
Week 2 of 4
Make it and price it
Week 3 of 4
Sell it and record it
Week 4 of 4
Pitch and celebrate
The teacher’s session page.
On session day the teacher opens one link on the classroom TV. It shows the plan for the day with timings, a short checklist, and a class board of who played this week, who sold something and who needs a hand. It reads from across the room.
- No account to set up: a private link for your class.
- English or Amharic, switched on the page.
- A TV mode with very large type.
Today's session · Week 2 of 4
TV modeMake it and price it
- 10 minOpener. What does it cost to make one? Materials, time, transport.
- 25 minBuild. Builder Mode: cost, price and profit per item. Plan the first batch or make a sample.
- 10 minShare. Show one sample or drawing. The class asks: would you buy it at that price?
Teacher checklist
- Price set.
- First batch planned.
Class board
- Abel32240 Br
- Hana21150 Br
- Liya43410 Br
- DawitNeeds a hand000 Br
- Meron2190 Br
Refreshes every minute
Example class. Names and figures are illustrative.
Where the money goes.
You bring the classroom. We handle everything that involves money.
- Parents pay us
- Never through the school. No collection, no invoicing, no extra work for your staff.
- Your school’s share
- A percentage of every enrolment from your school, agreed in writing before the cohort starts, and sent to you with a report of who enrolled.
- Your name on it
- Students who complete the programme get a certificate carrying your school’s name.
- Parentpays us directly
- Enrolment fee
- The Kidpreneurremits the share
- Share and report
- Your schoolnever handles fees
- No fees pass through the school
Built on methods your teachers will recognise.
Business Model Canvas
The one-page plan startups use instead of a forty-page business plan. Builder Mode walks students through a simplified version.
Lean Startup
Test small, learn fast, fix it before spending real money. A wrong choice in the game costs practice Birr, not real Birr.
Design Thinking
Ask customers, then change the idea. Students practise this loop in Startup Mode with practice customers played by the AI.
Entrepreneurial competencies
Quest decisions practise the ten competencies taught in EMPRETEC, the UN entrepreneurship programme.
EMPRETEC is a programme of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Kidpreneur is independently developed and not affiliated with or endorsed by UNCTAD. Business Model Canvas by Strategyzer AG, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
The pilot, in figures.
A free pilot with 4H Ethiopia, now Memhir Institute, in school computer rooms in Addis Ababa. Students often played four to a screen, with an instructor in the room.
- 300+
- students reached
- 15
- schools
- 36
- letters of intent
- 90%
- completed it with an instructor in the room
- Over 70%
- did something real, beyond the game
I have taught economics for nine years. This is the first time I have seen students voluntarily stay after class to continue a lesson.Students who rarely speak in class were debating pricing strategies. The Kidpreneur reached students I had almost given up on.My English students learned more business vocabulary in three sessions than in an entire semester of textbook lessons.This is what a student’s decision looks like.
A real round from Quest Mode, about tire sandals. No signup needed. It waits for your choice.
BirrhanuA buyer who wants everything is tempting. Think about what each pair cost you to make.
What will you do?You were asking 50 birr a pair.
Questions school leaders ask.
No. Parents pay The Kidpreneur directly, and your school never collects or handles fees.
Our mission
To make simulation-based entrepreneurship education as standard in African schools as reading and mathematics.
Bring it to your school.
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