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Connecting teachers with leaders of growing, successful
businesses to inspire young students
This presentation gives an introductory overview of Founders4Schools
http://www.founders4schools.org.uk
Contents
1. About Founders4Schools
1. Partner Dashboard
1. Achievements in 2014
1. Contact
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About Founders4Schools
Founders4Schools is a FREE nation-wide service that empowers teachers to connect with leaders of
successful, growing businesses to visit their schools and inspire their students.
Doing so helps ensure that children are prepared for the jobs and aware of the sectors that will be
relevant when they leave education.
In turn this will help ensure the UK’s future growth in the global economy.
“I had emails from students giving me their thanks for the event. In lesson and as I walked through the school, pupils and
teachers have said how the event was one of the best things they have ever seen. Our Assistant Head concurred that it was the
best talk she had seen at the school.”
Bobby Ahmadzadeh, Teacher, Brentford School for Girls
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Benefits for Students 8+
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Real-life role models who demonstrate the relevance of what is taught in classroom with careers
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Contact with real business leaders from your local community
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The opportunity to consider business as a viable career choice (particularly in STEAM areas)
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Hearing what jobs are being created today from the creators of the jobs themselves!
“I will look into my future a lot differently. I think it is very much about what jobs you can get and what university to go to
but now I think seeing such amazing entrepreneurs with such incredible stories about what they have done, I will
definitely look at my future in a very different way.”
Brent - a student at JFS secondary school
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Impact
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Click to watch a short youtube clip explaining
Founders4schools to teachers
Thank you to agency ‘Mother’ for donating resources to create this illustration for us
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Empowering Teachers
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4
easy steps
1. Enter Location
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Empowering Teachers
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4
easy steps
2. choose your preferred founders
based on their expertise
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Empowering Teachers
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4
easy steps
3. add your event’s details
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Empowering Teachers
Less than 5 minutes to find and invite leaders into the classroom
in 4
easy steps
4. confirm your selections
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Benefits for Teachers
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We help them find who to invite: Our database covers the
whole UK and 80% of founders. We filter out unsuccessful
businesses and un-inspirational speakers.
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We provide materials to help them prepare their students for
the ‘event’: Enables students to research the careers and
businesses of the speakers before the event
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We help them coordinate / communicate with the speakers:
Think “Eventbrite meets LinkedIn”
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We provide tools to help them assess impact after the event.
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We provide opportunities for their students to experiment
with digital tools and share what they have created with
others.
Principal Tricia Kelleher of the Stephen Perse Foundation with speakers:
Megan Smith, (Previously) Vice President, Google [x]
Alice Rathjen, Founder, CEO DNA Guide
Wendy Tan White, CEO Moonfruit
Mary Lou Jepsen, Head of the Display Division at Google [x]
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Bringing Subjects to life
Subject filtering allows teachers to select
speakers based on subjects they studied at
university to demonstrate to students how the
subjects they are studying are relevant.
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8,600+ volunteers
Events in every corner of the UK
Founder
Spread
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Events
Spread
Event Format
❖ A high impact F4S format event typically lasts 1 hour
❖ 3 - 4 founders talk about their journey and answer students’ questions
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Impact
Click to watch a short youtube clip from an
event with teachers’ and students’
immediate reactions.
“I think it is important for students to meet real
entrepreneurs because I think it motivates them”
Lisa Thefault,
Business Links Co-ordinator, Ursuline High School
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Examples:
Brentford School for girls [click title to see the event’s page]
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Bobby Ahmadzadeh, Subject Leader of Economics at Brentford School for Girls first heard of
Founders4Schools from a friend.
Set the event up online and had 5 speakers (3 female | 2 male)
Impact:
○ 104% rise in students that chose economics. This is an unprecedented growth for any
subject area at Key Stage 5 according to Bobby.
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Maitri, one of the students attending the event approached F4S for an internship. She
worked on an idea for an app and helped with database coding. The F4S event and her
work experience led her to change her university subject of study from History to
Computer Science.
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The positive feedback extends to teachers - “we were all really inspired that people like
that cared enough to come in to talk to students”.
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Examples:
UCL Academy [click title to link to the website for the event]
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Deputy Head Teacher Diarmuid Molloy booked 6 speakers for 2 events in October 2014 with
the aim of complementing traditional ‘theory’ lessons with real life examples.
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Impact:
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Sharpened students understanding of future careers
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Showed intricate links between the Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering areas
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Showed students how interesting and fun STEM can be
Following those events Diarmuid has booked a PROGRAMME of EVENTS part of UCL’s
‘Women in STEM’ week in March 2015.
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Ambassadors: Students
Click to watch a 10 second youtube clip
from a student from JFS School in North
London just after a role model event at her
school…
See the event details and line up of
speakers here
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Ambassadors: Teachers
Click to watch a 10 second youtube clip
from the teacher just after a role model
event at his school…
See the event details and line up of
speakers here
Andrew Flack, Head of Year 12, JFS School
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Ambassadors: Business Leaders
"A great initiative and a unique opportunity for students to see where their education
can take them. Founders4Schools events show teachers show students which are the
high growth sectors and where the jobs are likely to be when they leave education."
Eben Upton
CEO
RaspberryPi
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Ambassadors: Business Leaders
“In an age of digital disruption, young people's career paths have never been more
uncertain. The jobs of tomorrow have yet to be created today. Founders4Schools is
dedicated to inspiring, motivating and mentoring young people to see their potential
within the world of business and as the entrepreneurs and change-makers of the
future.”
Kathryn Parsons,
co-Founder and co-CEO,
DECODED
Kathryn spoke at the Channing School for Girls
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Ambassadors: Business Leaders
“The biggest impact I can make to creating more great tech and business leaders especially female ones - is to inspire them while they are still deciding what they want to
do with their futures.
By giving these young people examples of careers they may not have thought of, we can
really make an impact on their lives, and on future society that benefits from more
diverse leadership.”
Alicia Navarro,
Co-founder and CEO,
Skimlinks
Alicia most recently spoke at the Central Foundation Boys’ School
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Partners
We partner with over 60 organisations to deliver our
service. Here’s a selection of our educational partners...
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Partnership dashboard
Partner’s logo
Founders4Schools is a platform that enables teachers to
connect with founders of successful, growing businesses to
visit their schools and inspire their students.
2,000,005 students
3000 Founders
About the partner
have been inspired
have spoken at inspirational talk events
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Review of 2014
Q1
Moved from Agency to in-house
product development
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Quickly implement improvements
Dedicated focus
More direct engagement with the
developers which speeds up our
product development process
Secured Edmodo as a partner
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Edmodo has a massive network of
teachers in both the US and the UK.
We now have a dedicated area on
Edmodo that we can engage directly
with this community.
Review of 2014
Secured Telefónica
and Wayra as a
partner
Telefonica/Wayra are
financial partners.
Introduced Partner
Referral Programme
Monitor
Allows partners to view how
many students they have
referred to us simply by
looking at their individual
page
Q2
Review of 2014
Q2
Introduced
KPI reporting Dashboard
Allows the Founders4Schools team to monitor overall progress founders, events, students inspired etc.
Agreed Teach First Partnership
Teach First has a network of very engaged teachers very keen to
inspire their pupils. We have seen a number of teachers booking
follow up events after the success of the initial event.
Highlighted in Lord Young’s report ‘Enterprise for All’, published June 2014, as an initiative ‘offering
high-quality enterprise and careers activities which are beneficial.’
Review of 2014
Q3
Secured Nominet Trust as a
Partner
Nominet Trust is a financial partner.
Launched Scotland and
Northern Ireland
We soft-launched our services to Scotland and Northern
Ireland
We have partnered with more than 60 organisations - and counting!
We are endorsed by the Department for Education and BIS
Review of 2014
Q4
Secured iDEA as a Partner
The iDEA programme is a national competition to inspire young
people between 14-25. Founders4Schools is building a co-branded
website for iDEA centres to search for mentors for workshops and
speakers for inspirational talk events.
Released dramatically improved
Interface for teachers
We have reduced the steps a teacher needs to take to book an event
from 11 to 4 and have introduced a refinement system to enable
teachers to search for founders that specialise in specific subjects,
based on their LinkedIn profile.
Focused on inspiring female
students
We introduced in October and deepened in December a bias to the
ranking of founders bringing female entrepreneurs higher in the list of
results.
Contact:
Harriet Williams, Communications & Partnerships Manager
[email protected]
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