Confidence
Speak up. Back yourself.
Young people learn to share an idea out loud, take questions and hold their ground — in front of peers, mentors and a real audience.
3-day workshop · open enrolment
Three days that turn a young idea into a real business.
mini BOSS is a practical entrepreneurship experience for ages 10–17. Not another classroom — three high-energy days where young people spot a problem, build a brand, price for profit and pitch it out loud. Open to learners from public and private schools, with sponsored places supported by corporate and government funding.
- 3 days
- Immersive workshop
- 10–17
- Age groups catered for
- 5 steps
- Learn · Create · Build · Sell · Lead
- Public + private
- Open to both sectors
Day 3: the pitch
every participant presents their own venture
Why mini BOSS
The world children are entering is changing fast.
We don't tell young people to wait until they're older to make an impact. In three days we give them a safe place to try, fail, create, speak, build and believe in their own ideas.
Money
Cost, price, profit
Practical money skills most learners never meet at school: what something costs to make, what to charge, and what's actually left over.
Creativity
Problems as opportunities
They start with a real need in their own community and design something that answers it, using materials and insight they already have.
Leadership
Decide and take ownership
Teams split roles, make trade-offs under time pressure and carry the outcome together — the habits employers and founders both need.
The 3-day workshop
Learn · Create · Build · Sell · Lead
No long lectures. Three days of doing, facilitated by trained mini BOSS coaches and streamed by age group so every participant is stretched at the right level.
Every workshop ends with a pitch —
real audience, real feedback, real proof.
- Day 1
Learn & Create
Money basics and problem-finding through play and challenges — then each team locks in the idea they'll build.
- Understand the world of business
- Spot a real problem
- Turn it into an idea
- Day 2
Build
Brand identity, customer and numbers. Teams prototype the product and work out cost, price, revenue and profit.
- Name the brand
- Know the customer
- Price for profit
- Day 3
Sell & Lead
A live trading moment followed by the pitch to a panel of mentors, business owners and parents. Certificates handed out.
- Trade with real customers
- Pitch the idea
- Take ownership
10–12
mini BOSS Juniors
Money basics · Creativity · Teamwork · First pitch
13–15
mini BOSS
Business ideas · Marketing · Pricing · Branding
16–17
mini BOSS Leaders
Business models · AI & digital · Leadership · Investor pitch
Outcomes
They don't just attend. They leave with proof.
Parents, schools and funders can see exactly what came out of the three days — five tangible deliverables per participant, plus a short report for sponsors.
A business idea
A problem, a solution and a customer they can describe.
A brand
Name, identity and the message that goes with it.
A money model
Cost, price, revenue and profit — worked out by them.
A pitch
A confident presentation delivered to a live panel.
A certificate
Recognition of participation and achievement.
Flexible & funded
One workshop. Many ways to run it, many ways to fund it.
The three-day format stays the same wherever it lands. What flexes is who hosts it and who pays for it — so no child is excluded because of a school fee bracket.
Weekends & holidays
Open public workshop
Three consecutive days at a community or city venue. Any learner aged 10–17 can enrol, with sponsored seats reserved for public-school participants.
Public or private schools
School-hosted workshop
We run the same three days on site, streamed by age group. Schools host, we facilitate and supply every toolkit and workbook.
CSI, skills levy, district budgets
Corporate & government cohorts
A funder underwrites a full cohort in a chosen community. Impact reporting and participant outcomes are included.
How a workshop gets paid for
A blended model: private and public support alongside paid places.
Private funding
Corporate social investment, skills-levy budgets, foundations and individual sponsors — each sponsoring named seats or a whole cohort.
Public funding
Provincial education and youth-development budgets, district partnerships and municipal youth programmes bringing the workshop into under-served areas.
Paid enrolment
Parents and schools who can pay do — and every paid place helps cross-subsidise a sponsored one.
The team
Operators, educators, and one very clear mission.
Mushfiqoh Samodien
Founder
Built the mini BOSS workshop from the room up and leads delivery with schools, sponsors and parents.
Workshop facilitators
Delivery team
Trained coaches who run each age stream across the three days and keep every team moving.
Partnerships & funding
Sponsors & public sector
Coordinates corporate CSI, foundation and district funding so sponsored seats are always available.
Get involved
Ready to raise a mini BOSS?
Enrol a learner, host the workshop at your school, or fund a cohort in a community that needs it. Tell us which and we'll send dates, costs and the full pack.
- Three days, ages 10–17, streamed by age group
- Open to the public, and to public and private schools alike
- Sponsor named seats or underwrite a full cohort
- Impact report and participant outcomes after every workshop