TechnoVenture

In TechnoVenture, high school students use Microsoft Word to write a viable business plan. In this session, they are introduced to the program window and basic formatting options.

The entrepreneurship lesson plans in TechnoVenture, include worksheets that help students develop a business idea for a specialty store. To get started they select an item to sell at their store such as cakes, skateboards, or dolls. After deciding on what to sell they must then decide what to name the business and the company structure. A list of ideas get the creative juices flowing.

Once students have a business idea they learn how to prepare a business plan that will act as a roadmap to success. Using Microsoft Word a document is created that has formatted styles for the headings, subheadings, and body styles. Following detailed instructions students create a table of contents that updates itself automatically to display each entry and page number.

The next section of the business plan includes a brief description of the company and an explanation of the job roles. To begin this task, students assess their strengths and weaknesses using a worksheet. This helps them to decide what jobs they can do and which are best left to someone else.

Afterwards they create an organizational chart in Microsoft Word that summarizes the various divisions of their business’s operations including marketing, production, finance, administration, and human resources.

Students write the product overview section of the business plan using the detailed Microsoft Word lesson plans. They produce an illustrated list of items that requires the application of the following word processing skills: