Businesses United in Investing Lending and Development Build (BUILD)

Year 1: Build your Business (y1) freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year Build your Business students gain an introduction to entrepreneurship and how Build wants them to become the ceo of their own lives. They use the human-centered design process to create and pitch an original product idea to volunteer professionals. They Build out these ideas into Business pitch decks that they present in a culminating Business plan competition event.

Year 3: Build your future (y3) junior and senior year Build your future is the bridge that links entrepreneurial skills and mindsets that our students develop in y1 and y2 to their pathways after high school. Our y3 students learn to be ceos - they're learning how to be career-focused, enterprising, and opportunity-oriented. Through their Build experience, they are expanding their social and navigational capital. They're growing their networks, and learning how to utilize these networks and resources to be proactive about their future. Build your future empowers Build students to learn about potential pathways and how to access them. They are setting themselves up to be successful no matter what their pathway is.

Year 2: Build your voice (y2) freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year in Build your voice, students develop their unique voice and brand (both personal and Business) as they continue their journey to college, career, and life success. They continue building their skills in product design, marketing, production, finances and sales, finishing the year with a selling event and portfolio pitch.