Business Blasters: Small Stars, Big Ideas

Updated: 9/14/2024
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Last Updated: 13 Sept 2024

Vision: Prepare students to be JOB CREATORs rather than Job Seekers[1]

Business Blasters is Experiential learning to cultivate Entrepreneurial habits and attitudes

2+ Lakh students participate in this Entrepreneurial journey every year

BB 2024-25[2]

-- 40,000 business ideas have come up
-- 2.45 lakh students are participating
-- Delhi Govt has given Rs 40 crore seed money to students
-- Private schools can also voluntarily participate

Regular sessions by prominent personalities are organised for students

e.g. Amazon hosted session on branding and marketing for Business Blasters teams in October 2023[3]

Business Blasters: Small Stars, Big Ideas

Classroom Ideas to Yearly BB Investment Expo

Top Students Startups present their business ideas for seed capital to investors from across the country at the Investment Expo[4]

Top students in Business Blasters get[5]
-- Direct admission offer to State Universities
-- An achievement certificate
-- Opportunity to join the incubation cell set up at the Delhi Skills and Entrepreneurship University

BB 2023-24[2:1]

Business Blaster Expo will be held in December 2024

Top Student Businesses

  • A K Logistics was a startup that is now a registered private limited company. After passing Class 12, the students employed 50 people in their transportation business
  • The student startup, ‘Dark Chocobitz’, which makes customised chocolates, is employing 40 women
  • Another student startup, which is an eco-friendly one, ‘Disposal Walaa’, is employing 20 people
  • the ‘Padhai Vadhai’ startup is employing 10 people

BB 2022-23[4:1]

  • 100 startups competed in the investment expo
  • Teams were coached by experienced entrepreneurs for the last 4-5 weeks before Expo
  • Selected from among 995 BB teams of Delhi government schools
  • These 995 teams had presented their ideas in front of 165 panels at 33 locations
  • Before this final round, teams went through a selection process at various levels

Top Student Businesses[6]: QR code-based attendance system, smart road surface lights, electric bicycles, a smart logistics company and healthy chips

Availed by 2+ lakh students in class 11 and 12

BB 2021-22[7]

  • 126 student businesses participated in the investment expo

Ideas like e-cycles for children with disabilities, alcohol detectors in cars and the use of 3-D technology presented at Business Blasters Investment Summit

Availed by 2.5+ lakh students in class 11 and 12

Business Blasters: Small Stars, Big Ideas (image 2)

Industry Participation[3:1]

  • Amazon: A batch of 28 students from 15 Business Blasters teams from Delhi government schools had a one-to-one mentoring session on branding and marketing hosted by the e-commerce giant Amazon in Bengaluru
  • Have received mentorship from experts from companies such as Dell, TCS, NatWest, BCG and others[8]

“What these children have delivered with the seed money of just Rs 1,000-2,000 is exceptional. The best part is that their ideas have originated from the needs of the community. Being impressed by them, I have already invested in three business ideas,” - Rajeev Saraf, CEO-Lepton Software, Gurugram[9]

Students' Shark Tank 2022

Full Playlist of 8 TV episodes

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiN7YZXz4nOezaOWtF3WX1WFLqkb4saru

Success Stories

  • Students from Delhi govt schools outshine 1.5 lakh teams at 'Youth Ideathon' 2023
    -- 2 BB teams received ₹1 Lakh grant for their unique ideas[10]

  • An art startup by 2 Delhi govt school students saw ₹10 lakh turnover[11]

  • "We have received the investment of Rs 3 lakh from an investor to develop 50 such cycles"[9:1]

  • The team bought a 3D printer with its seed money and has earned a lot of profit, with more than 100 orders through B2B[9:2]

Salient Features[12]

Business Blasters(BB) program is an important component of

Many business blasters students continue to earn from their side businesses while they pursue their higher studies[11:1]

Program Structure

  • Ideas: Students of Class 11 and 12 are challenged to form teams, come up with and pitch their business ideas
  • Seed Money:Teams passionate about their Business Ideas are provided a seed money of ₹2,000 per student
  • School-level support: Teams pursue their business ideas to generate revenues and make profit
  • Business coaching: Teams making decent progress are provided business coaching to further develop and scale their business ideas
  • Investment Expo: Top teams are selected for Investment Expo at the year end

Business Blasters Process in Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKr8gw9wJz4kS3Gkt_acUu5RsO0z1AWK)

Business Blasters: Small Stars, Big Ideas (image 3)

References

  1. https://scert.delhi.gov.in/scert/entrepreneurship-mindset-curriculum-emc (SCERT Delhi) ↩︎

  2. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/business-blasters-programme-kicks-off-in-delhi-schools-9564684/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/delhi/delhi-govts-business-blasters-get-entrepreneurship-lessons-from-amazon-1503229836.html ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/business-blasters-expo-selected-students-to-get-direct-admissions-to-top-universities ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/top-students-in-business-blasters-to-get-direct-admission-to-universities/article65616661.ece ↩︎

  6. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/102220463.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst ↩︎

  7. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/students-woo-investors-with-profit-making-ideas/article65193794.ece ↩︎

  8. https://theprint.in/india/delhis-business-blasters-aimed-at-preparing-future-global-business-leaders-education-minister/1796801/ ↩︎

  9. https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/news/business-blasters-programme-to-reach-delhi-private-schools-next-year/cid/1854772 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  10. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/an-app-to-mark-attendance-another-for-children-with-special-needs-govt-school-students-bag-rs-1-lakh-grant-9041381/ ↩︎

  11. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/how-an-art-startup-by-two-delhi-govt-school-students-saw-rs-10-lakh-turnover-9056163/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  12. https://scert.delhi.gov.in/scert/resources-4 ↩︎