Kickstart Your Passion Project! 💫

This June holiday, a group of enthusiastic students joined us for a day to kickstart their very own crowd-funding project. Let’s just say these young kids are going to grow up to be very passionate entrepreneurs in their own ways!

Here’s what went down:

MORNING: IDEATION TIME! 💡

After some games to break the ice, the students dived straight into a sharing session about their interests and their project ideas.

Students sharing their interests and passion projects they want to work on

It was amazing to hear that these students have varied interests and passions — some were into dancing and music while others were into games, prototyping, and even social issues.

Our student, Iqbal, sharing about his interest in making things

Shortly after, we introduced Lih Wei and he shared about his experience starting and executing an actual crowd-funding project when TinyMOS just started. The students were excited to hear his personal stories and very eager to ask questions as well!

TinyMOS CTO and Co-founder with an intimate Q&A session with the students

After mapping common interests together, the students formed into two groups to work on the project idea.

Mapping their business ideas and assumptions

AFTERNOON: GET OUT OF THE CLASSROOM! 🏃🏻

After a quick lunch break, students went on the streets to interview people and validate their ideas and assumptions. I have to say this part was nerve-wrecking for some, but we’re very proud that our students rose up to the challenge!

Interviewing people on the streets for idea validation

Getting out of their comfort zones to talk to people on the streets!

EVENING: FINAL SHOWCASE & FILMING 📹

In this last segment, students consolidated findings from their interviews and refined their projects.

Discussing about how to best change their project to solve the problem

Visualising how their project would look like

Thereafter, they filmed a short video intended to be published on a crowd-funding site to gather support for their projects. They learnt how to best present themselves in front of a camera to exude enthusiasm and spread the word about their project ideas.

Apart from learning how to best craft their message, the students also picked up some video filming skills and techniques.

Filming and sharing about their project idea

We’re very thankful for this passionate bunch of students for joining us and inspiring us in their own ways! (:

At Praxium, we’re passionate about uncovering students’ passions and working with them to build purposeful pathways. Do you have an idea for your own passion project that you’ve been sitting on? Have you ever wondered how you might transform an idea into a viable business? Join us for our next workshop to Kickstart Your Passion Project — register your interest here to stay in the loop!

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