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A nonprofit teaching design thinking, how to build with AI, and financial literacy.

Curriculum

⚙️ How the Program Works

The Money Club now runs as a focused one-week sprint.

Each day combines two parts:
morning instruction and afternoon workshops.

In the morning, students learn the business mechanics behind real products: money, demand, sourcing, pricing, design, marketing, and go-to-market strategy.

In the afternoon, they put the theory into action.

They research markets, study what people already buy, identify problems, shape ideas, test assumptions, and build toward a simple product, service, or AI-assisted concept of their own.

The goal is simple:

🧠 Build judgment before confidence.

Students are not just learning business terms. They are learning how decisions get made.

They learn:

  • how money flows
  • how costs add up
  • how pricing shapes decisions
  • how sourcing affects margins
  • how design, positioning, and demand connect
  • how AI can support research, planning, and execution
  • how to ask the most important question in business:
🛠 Why would someone choose this?

By the end of the week, students will have moved from idea to testable concept — with a clearer understanding of how value is created, priced, communicated, and improved.

WHAT STUDENTS EXPERIENCE

🗓️ Week Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
💰 Financial Literacy as Survival Gear
🏭 Sourcing 101: Where Value Is Actually Made
🗂️ Control Brand Playbook
📊 Market Research: Follow the Money & Problems
🎨 Design Thinking & Human Factor Research
📋 Cambridge Business Model Canvas
🚀 Go-To-Market: Blast Off Without Burning Fuel
📸 Creative Fundamentals: Photography, Design & Visual Clarity
📣 Marketing: Ride Existing Channels Before Building Your Own
🛠️ Build Workshops:
✨ Market Research and Sourcing with AI
📸 Flash Photography
🏗️ Website Design with Vibe Coding
🎙️ Guest Speaker
🎤 The Maker Market Event

Core Build Modules

  • 💰 Financial Literacy as Survival Gear

    Students learn how money actually moves through a business: gross margin, profit, fixed and variable costs, break-even points, and cash flow. They begin to see why many businesses fail because the economics do not work.

  • 🏭 Sourcing 101: Where Value Is Actually Made

    Students learn how products are sourced, priced, bundled, and scaled. They are introduced to suppliers, minimum order quantities, lead times, logistics, and pricing leverage.

  • 📊 Market Research: Follow the Money & Problems

    Students learn to look for signals, not just opinions. They study demand by looking at existing spending, substitutes, complaints, inefficiencies, and what people already pay for.

  • 🏷 Control Brand Playbook

    Students learn how operators create value by studying what already works, improving the offer, and controlling margin. This introduces the logic behind positioning, private label, and pricing power.

  • 🎨 Design Thinking & Human Factor Research

    Students learn to observe behavior, identify friction, and translate real problems into ideas people might actually use.

  • 📋 Business Model Thinking

    Students connect the problem, customer, value proposition, revenue model, cost structure, and path to execution so the idea works as a system, not just a concept.

  • 🚀 Go-To-Market: Launch Without Burning Fuel

    Students learn to test quickly, learn early, and avoid overbuilding. The focus is on feedback, traction, and learning before polish.

  • 📸 Creative Fundamentals: Photography, Design & Visual Clarity

    Students learn how design, messaging, and visual clarity affect trust, demand, and perceived value.

  • 📣 Marketing: Use Existing Channels First

    Students learn how marketplaces, retailers, social platforms, and partnerships can help test ideas faster than building everything from scratch.

  • 🕵️‍♂️ Staying Ahead of the Game

    Students learn that research is ongoing. They monitor competitors, pricing, customer behavior, and shifts in the market over time.

  • 💻 AI Tools Used Across the Program

    AI is part of the program because it is part of how real products and ideas are now developed.

    Students use AI to:

    • research markets and understand customers
    • spot patterns and opportunities
    • compare products and pricing
    • model simple business cases
    • create media and marketing assets
    • prototype websites and app concepts

    The goal is not just to use AI. It is to use it well — as a tool for better thinking, faster iteration, and more informed decisions.

  • 🎤 The Maker Market

    The program ends with a live Maker Market.

    Each team presents what they built: products, services, apps, and ideas.

    Every participant receives virtual cash and decides what to spend it on.

    That creates one real question:

    Why would someone choose this?

    There are no grades in that moment. Just judgment, value, and decision-making.

    Students have to explain:

    • what they made
    • who it is for
    • how it works
    • what it costs
    • how it is priced
    • why somebody would want it

    It is a simple format, but it teaches something important:

    An idea is only as strong as the choices it can earn.

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