Students will enter the project through a fast-paced startup simulation, use entrepreneurship vocabulary to justify an early business-structure decision, and surface the questions they need to investigate with real entrepreneurs in the next phase.

Students will gather direct evidence from an entrepreneur, organize that evidence into an empathy map, and use feedback plus business constraints to revise a startup direction before moving into final pitch development.

Students will present their final startup pitch artifacts to classmates and school partners, explain how interview evidence and feedback shaped their business decisions, and complete a brief oral reflection about the trade-offs of self-employment.