Discovery India

QLabs - India Virtual Incubator, an initiative for Indian schools.

UQ Ventures Discovery program supports high school students to think and act with an entrepreneurial mindset. The UQ Discovery Program is the first activity for the QLabs Network Schools across India. 

This certified program will give a comprehensive understanding of the different steps involved in an entrepreneurial journey – from the personality and traits of an entrepreneur to customer discovery, ideation, business modelling, pitching and storytelling.

The primary objective is to enable school students experience entrepreneurship development activities as a regular offering which will include a flexible four-month program, mentoring sessions, founder talks, self-directed assignments leading up to the India Future Founders competition.

All workshops have been designed with an experiential learning approach, leveraged by UQ’s world-leading research and entrepreneurship ecosystem with an aim to foster a resilient, flexible, and problem-solving mindset in high school students.

Program highlights

  • Certified long duration entrepreneurship engagement by experts from a world top 50 university.
  • Be a part of an ecosystem of high-performing students over 50 top Indian schools.
  • Two 60-minute live virtual sessions with experts and entrepreneurs followed by recorded sessions, online content, and access to UQ Ventures resources every month.
  • The workshops give a comprehensive understanding of the different steps involved in an entrepreneurial journey – from the personality and traits of an entrepreneur, to customer discovery, ideation, business modelling, pitching and storytelling.
  • Students will get a global platform to pitch their business idea.

Program structure

Pre-program

  • Finding ideas for a startup
  • How to find a problem worth solving?
 

August

Session 1:

Date: Wednesday 17 August 2022
Time: 4-5pm IST | 8.30-9.30pm AEST

  • Using Design Thinking to start a business
  • What is Design Thinking and how to apply it to start a business
Session 2:

Date: Wednesday 24 August 2022
Time: 4-5pm IST | 8.30-9.30pm AEST

  • Founder Story
 

September

Session 3:

Date: Wednesday 14 September 2022
Time: 4-5pm IST | 8.30-9.30pm AEST

  • The power of empathy and customer delivery
  • Why understanding your customer is so important?
Session 4:

Date: Wednesday 21 September 2022
Time: 4-5pm IST | 8.30-9.30pm AEST

  • Founder Story
 

October

Session 5:

Date: Wednesday 12 October 2022
Time: 4-5pm IST | 8.30-9.30pm AEST

  • Storytelling
  • How to develop a strong impactful pitch
Session 6:

Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022
Time: 4-5pm IST | 8.30-9.30pm AEST

  • Founder Story
 

November

  • Dedicated mentoring sessions for the top ten teams
  • India's Future Founders Competition
 

Pitch event

Teams will pitch in front of a judging panel of experts and the top team will be awarded prizes. 

Program certificates will be awarded to all participatns after completing the attendance quiz. 

Discovery International

Ventures Discovery is creating a network of high schools to bring the best innovation and entrepreneurial tools to students. Learn more today.

Contact

For further details or enquries please contact Tomas Piccinini, Ventures Program Officer.

venturesdiscovery@uq.edu.au

To register for Discovery India please contact Ashwin Sreekumar
Registrations close: 31 July 2022, 10pm IST.

a.sreekumar@uq.edu.au