Pitch with Confidence!
 
The Future Entrepreneur Challenge Program Presentation Skills course is an advanced program designed for middle and high school students to learn the skills they will need for pitching their business ideas to investors. Throughout this course, students will join a 3-week competition pitch event and receive instruction and mentorship from experienced professionals and entrepreneurs
 
By the end of the course, students will have:
Learned the comprehensive pitching knowledge and techniques
Demonstrated the learnings through a pitching competition
Received a Presentation Skills course certificate
* Top performers may receive a recommendation letter from the instructor
 
Session
Module
Learning outcomes
1
Fundamentals and getting to AMAZING
Understand the history of pitching from Silicon Valley perspectives
Learn basic pitch elements
Stack the deck – tips and tricks
Know the common examples- success and mistakes
Pitch and Q&A
2
Competition kick-off
Kick off the competition – pitch round 1
Pivots – some ideas need to change
Communicate the product vision
Know big market- what investors expect
Craft yours story- company story and user journey
Learn word optimization and cadence
Be ready for anything- what happens when something goes wrong?
Learn mental preparation techniques – mind of matter
3
Competition semifinals
Competition pitch round 2
Understand what makes you fundable?
Know why metrics matter
Rote or off-the-cuff – about memorization
Know your audience
Learn posture and body language
Beautify the pitch – visual design methodology
4
Competition finals and final notes
Learn the three key principles of high-level fundamentals 
Learn the four-step framework
Competition finals
 
* Please note that the curriculum plan may be adjusted to match students’ needs and skills.
 
 
Instructor: Ethan Schur
 
Honored with the VFX Societies Lumiere Award and hold the title of “America’s Greatest Maker” as the $1 Million Dollar Prize winner
Speaker, panelist, and moderator who has appeared on Forbes, CNN, TBS, and others
CEO at Grush, the inventor of the smart connected toothbrush technology
CTO at Telepresence Robotics Corporation (TRC). TRC disrupts the economics of the service robot industry with an advanced multipurpose modular robotTM and MMR-PlatformTM
Board member of the VR Film Festival and the Robotic Fashion Network
Co-author of several patents and papers, and is an accredited journalist with the International Federation of Journalists
 
If you have any questions about the programs, please don’t hesitate to email us at info@harmonyplus.org or give us a call at (650) 409-9999.