Budding Entrepreneurs At Work

Budding Entrepreneurs At Work

Wednesday 27 March 2013

Kids Invent! Open House - 20/04/2013

Some of you may be wondering what this program is all about so here's your chance to experience it first hand.

Join me at a Kids Invent! Open House where your kids will get a complimentary session and you can also join in on some of the activities planned for the day.

Here are the details:

Date: 20th April 2013, Saturday
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Venue: Casa Merah Condominium (function room)
50 Tanah Merah Kechil Avenue,  Singapore 465524

For planning purposes, please register your attendance with me before 15 April by emailing your child's name, age and school, as well as your contact number to lapaul232@gmail.com.

If you come for the open house, you will also get to enjoy a fabulous one time offer of $395 (U.P. $450 per person) if you register your child for The Young Entrepreneurs June holiday camp, which will be held at Victoria Junior College from 4th to 7th of June 2013.

So please help spread the word about our Open House, and come with your friends and family!

I hope to see you then!

God bless and have a great week ahead.

Lorraine

Sunday 24 March 2013

The Young Entrepreneurs Camp for kids 7 to 15yrs.

Coming off from the success of our entrepreneurial camp in November last year, JLPC is bringing it back with a renewed and refreshed programme this June.

Here are the details of the camp:

The Young Entrepreneurs Camp
(for kids 7yrs to 15yrs)

Date: 4th to 7th June 2013 (Tues to Fri)
Timing: 9.30am to 5.30pm daily (lunch included)
Venue: Victoria Junior College, 20 Marine Vista, Singapore 449035
Camp Fees: $450 ($400 per child for group registrations of 3 or more kids)

Register before 30th April for early bird price of $410 per child

Registration closes on 24th May 2013.


Apart from changing our camp venue, we're also very happy to extend a warm welcome to the student leaders from VJC who will be joining the team of experienced facilitators for this camp. We look forward to having them on board with us.

It is so important to be able to give our children the time and an outlet to explore the world around them, and see it through an inventor's eyes. I've been wowed by what our children have been able to create at our past events and more importantly, been amazed by their levels of engagement for each and every challenge that we've thrown at them. I strongly believe that this will make them even more ready to take on what the future holds for them in this unbelievably challenging world that we're living in.


JLPC, through the Kids Invent! program, focuses not only on the Science experience that each activity brings but also on the life skills that the children pick up along the way, such as collaboration and teamwork (trust me... this is always a tough one with the kids), thinking out of the box and problem solving, learning how to communicate their thoughts and ideas with others, creating and innovating with limited resources but unlimited imagination, and even learning to do simple things like tying their shoelaces or ripping off a piece of masking tape.

Our line up of activities include all-time favourites like gravity cars, straw shooters and water rockets, but we've also incorporated new ones which will allow kids to work with batteries and circuits, as well as some water related challenges such as a gravity boats and aluminum ferries.

We also want to give the kids time to invent and produce a prototype of a toy idea that may possibly be brought to venture given the right support system. We've had interesting ideas popping up in the past and who knows what this camp will bring us.

Parents have a HUGE part to play in this component of the camp and the kids are always thrilled to see their parents engaged in their ideas.

Contact lapaul232@gmail.com to register your child now!

Camp Highlights:
Here's the program line up for our camp. Please note that the number of activities may vary according to how fast (or how slow) the kids are able to complete the various challenges within a day. Weather is also a consideration as some of the activities need to be done and measured outdoors.

Day 1 – Things that zoom and fly
-          Magic paper ring  
-          Gravity cars
-          Wind powered cars
-          Rocket Cars
-          Propeller Cars
-          Paper Flyers
-          Handocopters
-          Aluminium Gliders
-          Circuit game (optional)


Day 2 – Things that float and blast into space
-          Tallest Tower
-          Gravity Boats
-          Propeller Boats
-          Aluminium Ferries
-          Cartesian Divers
-          Straw shooters
-          Straw Rockets
-          Paper Canons
-          Pneumatic Rockets
-          Water Rockets


Day 3 – Invention Day – Developing the BIG Idea
-          Teams will spend the early part of the day being introduced to building a simple business/action plan, brainstorming and deciding what type of game they want to invent.
-          Second part of the day will be spent building their prototypes.

Day 4 – Investor Fair – Selling the BIG Idea
-          Most of the day will be spent finishing up their prototype, followed by ‘quality testing’, evaluation and revision of prototypes. After which, teams will prepare for their presentations and develop promotional POS materials to ‘sell’ their inventions at the Investors Fair.
-          There will be an Investors Fair at 5pm where parents and guests will turn investor for the day, sit through their kids’ presentations, proceed to try out and sample the merchandise on offer and provide the kids with objective feedback on the feasibility of their idea to venture.