- Location: Multiple locations
- Ages: 11-19
- Session Lengths (weeks): 1, 2
Camp BizSmart focuses on helping kids become the entrepreneurs of the next generation. They offer two business summer programs for different age groups. The camp brings in powerful founders and executives from current companies to work alongside the campers. Meanwhile, judges and advisors also help out the kids.
For younger kids, typically middle school students and early high school students, between the age of 11-15, they offer a two-week summer program focusing on product design and business planning. Their second program for older teens between 16-19 lasts six days and focuses on designing and creating a product, plus also how to gain the necessary capital to make it a reality. It's a perfect pre college summer program to gain valuable experience.
Currently, there are over 9,000 alumni and with a record of 15 years of inspiring young entrepreneurs. Early graduates are in careers as engineers, financial experts, and many more. They work at top companies, and startups, including one's graduates have founded on their own.
They actively work together as teams to solve real-life business problems while building essential skills like design, marketing, financial literacy, and decision making all along the way.