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]

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

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)

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 ↩︎

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