Brescia’s Just Own It! Entrepreneurship Video series is now available and ready for use in high school classrooms. Earlier this year, Brescia successfully hosted 270 high school girls at a one-day conference and summer entrepreneurship boot camps. The program was supported by funding from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure to promote entrepreneurship to high school girls,

Just Own It! is a series of five videos that provides high school students with an introduction to entrepreneurship . The videos feature young entrepreneurs to whom high school students will relate. The quirky, fun, ironic approach will engage students.  The videos range in length from 6 – 8 minutes, ideal for use in an educational environment. Find them on our Just Own It! YouTube channel.

The videos cover topics such as the traits of an entrepreneur, identification of a customer problem, development of a product, creating a business model, validating a business model, and pitching a business idea.  And for good measure, we have also created a Teacher’s Guide for each video, with resources and class activities.  Go to Just Own It! Teacher’s Guides to download the teacher’s guides. Please share these videos with anyone who might find them helpful in reaching Ontario’s Youth.

If you’d like to help promote these videos, we’re especially interested in getting the message out to high school teachers. Feel free to send a Tweet, Facebook or Linked In post, or just send emails to your nearest and dearest. The Just Own It! team is very grateful for your assistance! Thank you.