“Innovation Studios gave us an opportunity to improve our teamworking skills which is definitely going to be useful in the future”
T-Level Student, London
Innovation Studios
We’ve teamed up with real businesses to give your students the opportunity to solve real life business challenges.
Innovation Studios is a ready to teach, interactive workshop that leads your students through a series of tasks to develop a solution to a challenge set by our partners.
At a glance
- Teacher delivered
- For ages 13- 18
- Contribution of ÂŁ195 per school per year
- Regional funding and volunteering available
We’ve teamed up with a company, who have shared a real-life business challenge. Your students will act as advisors to the company, helping them decide how best to approach this challenge. They will work through a series of tasks, taken from real-life business practice, to help them devise a solution.
These include: Mind-mapping, Creative thinking exercises, SWOT analysis, Contingency planning & Pitching their solution to the class.
Teachers can deliver the workshop as an off-curriculum day, five one-hour sessions, or twelve smaller tasks.
Following this course, students will have gained insight into how businesses approach complex problems and will have practised their skills in leadership, teamwork, creativity, problem solving, aiming high, staying positive, speaking and listening.
Learning Objectives
- Provide a flexible work-like experience for schools, in collaboration with real businesses
- Develop essential skills for work (e.g. teamwork, confidence, leadership, problem solving and speaking)
- Understand how businesses approach challenges
- Gain insight into different industries, job roles and responsibilities
Three key tools
- Innovation Studios Brochure
- Learning Zone – to purchase or demo
- Get in contact with info@y-e.org.uk
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