Discovery South East Asia

Join the QLabs - South East Asia (SEA) Virtual Incubator: Ignite Your Entrepreneurial Spirit! 

Welcome to the QLabs SEA Virtual Incubator, an exclusive initiative for high school students across South East Asia by UQ Ventures. Our Discovery program is designed to empower high school students with the entrepreneurial skills and mindset needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

This invite-only program is a certified, five-week journey that takes students from the spark of an idea to a polished pitch, ready to impress judges and win prizes. Participants will delve into the essential steps of entrepreneurship, including understanding the traits of successful entrepreneurs, mastering customer discovery, honing ideation, crafting business models, and perfecting market validation, pitching, and storytelling.

Our primary goal is to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset in high school students by immersing them in real-world challenges and competition. Each team will be guided by expert mentors, ensuring a transformative learning experience that culminates in the creation of tangible prototypes and compelling presentations.

All our workshops are crafted with an experiential learning approach, leveraging UQ’s cutting-edge research and world-renowned entrepreneurship ecosystem. We aim to foster resilience, flexibility, and a problem-solving attitude in students, equipping them with the tools to become the innovators and change agents of tomorrow.

Program Highlights

• Certified, long-duration entrepreneurship engagement by experts from a world top-50 university
• Weekly online sessions (Session 1–4) and Pitching Event (Session 5)
• Master the entrepreneurial journey: from developing key traits to excelling in customer discovery, ideation, business modelling, pitching, and storytelling
• Compete for a chance to win prizes
• A Certificate of Completion will be provided to each individual who completes the program