Applications open for the 2026–27 cohortSessions begin in NovemberWeekly Tuesday sessionsStudent Showcase on April 23Toronto, OntarioApplications open nowApplications open for the 2026–27 cohortSessions begin in NovemberWeekly Tuesday sessionsStudent Showcase on April 23Toronto, OntarioApplications open now

Sixteen sessions · Four principles

Agency.
Judgment.
Consequence.
Community.

01 — Agency

Work on something you care about.

Students choose the problem themselves. No assigned case, no brief handed down, no invented company to practise on. What a student picks in week one is what they try and solve for the year.

In practice · every venture starts from a problem the student named

02 — Judgment

Take a real risk while it is cheap.

Students learn to size a bet, test it cheaply, and operate with imperfect information. A wrong business decision during high school is the cheapest one they will ever make and the one they learn most from.

In practice · a working budget each student decides how to spend

03 — Consequence

Leave a mark before you leave school.

The work goes outside the building. EIB ventures have real customers, a real budget, and judgment from people with no reason to be kind about it. What students build here is theirs to keep building.

In practice · the prototype is used by someone outside the school

04 — Community

Get the network ten years early.

Founders, operators and investors sit with each venture during the term, then a panel of them judges it at the end. Students leave the sixteen sessions with top business people already knowing their name.

In practice · operators and investors in the room give feedback on student ventures

The EIB difference

A reason to walk back into the building.

Every mentor in an EIB room comes out of the school's own community, bringing with them years of experience. By pressing student teams on their ventures, they pass hard-won knowledge to the next generation of founders while closing the distance between the classroom and the real world.

A student's first company should happen while there is still someone around to help them build it.

My dad uses business words I didn't know, and now I know all of them, so I can eavesdrop better.

The curriculum

  1. Stage 01 · Identify

  2. Lesson 01Problem Identification
  3. Lesson 02Problem Validation
  4. Lesson 03Ideation and Solutions

  5. Stage 02 · Plan

  6. Lesson 04Exit Strategy and What Success Looks Like
  7. Lesson 05Building the MVP

  8. Winter break · Dec 18 to Jan 4 · no sessions

  9. Lesson 06Monetization and the Business Model
  10. Lesson 07Legal Basics
  11. Lesson 08Traction and Go-to-Market

  12. Stage 03 · Build

  13. Lesson 09Prototyping Day, physical
  14. Lesson 10Prototyping Day, digital
  15. Lesson 11Data Collection and Feedback
  16. Lesson 12Value Extraction

  17. Stage 04 · Convince

  18. Lesson 13Narrative Construction and Investment
  19. Lesson 14Founder Journey

  20. March break · Mar 8 to 19 · no sessions

  21. Lesson 15Pitch Refinement
  22. Lesson 16Pitch Prep and Showcase Briefing

  23. Stage 05 · Launch

  24. April 23Student Showcase and Cougars Den

Cost and logistics

$525 for the year.

Sixteen Tuesday sessions from November to April, a working budget, and a place at the April 23 Student Showcase.

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