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Begin your journey to exceptional projects
Most Students Talk About Leadership. You Will Prove It.
- Eligibility: Grades 6 through 12 | Duration: 2 to 4 months | Format: 1:1 with a founder-mentor from a top-25 institution
- Time commitment: 5 - 7 hours per week
- Deliverable: Validated concept, working prototype, and investor-ready pitch deck
Open to middle and high school students worldwide.
Program Overview
Students work one-on-one with a founder-mentor to take an original business idea from concept to a validated, pitch-ready venture. The program follows a structured accelerator model, the same process early-stage startups use, adapted for high school entrepreneurs who want to produce something real. Students have launched ventures in e-commerce, consumer apps, social enterprises, education technology, health and wellness, sustainability, and more. If you have an idea and a problem worth solving, the program can work with it.
three concrete deliverables
A validated concept, tested against real market evidence and customer feedback. A working prototype, built to demonstrate your product to investors, mentors, or competition judges. An investor-ready pitch deck, structured to present your venture clearly and persuasively. Students also receive guidance on the legal foundations of their business — entity structure, intellectual property basics, and what early-stage founders need to understand before they launch.
Choose Your Track
Build Your Business Concept
By the end of the program, you will have a well-researched business concept, a functional prototype, and a pitch deck built to present to real audiences. This mirrors the process early-stage founders use to move from idea to a demonstrable product.
Choose Standard if you want to build:
Launch and Validate Your Venture
By the end of the program, you will have a well-researched business concept, a functional prototype, and a pitch deck built to present to real audiences. This mirrors the process early-stage founders use to move from idea to a demonstrable product.
Choose Premium if you want to build:
How It Works
Already enrolled in Nova AI Product Launch?
Nova Entrepreneurship Studio is designed to work alongside it. Students who take both programs use AI Product Launch to build the product and Entrepreneurship Studio to build the business around it” validating demand, modeling revenue, and developing a go-to-market strategy. The recommended sequence is to enroll in both simultaneously or complete AI Product Launch first. Our team can advise on the right approach.
Our Approach
The program is modeled on the methodology behind Stanford's Lean LaunchPad: the venture formation course that became the foundation for how leading accelerators and graduate entrepreneurship programs teach founders.
We apply the same process at the high scholl level: structured customer discovery, rapid iteration, and milestone-driven progress, adapted for high school entrepreneurs.
Students follow a process designed to produce real decisions under real constraints. Mentor relationships re working relationships; they are in the sessions with you, questioning your assumptions, pushing back on weak evidence, and helping you determine what to build next.
Why families choose nova
A validated concept, a working prototype, and an investor-ready pitch deck are assets that can be presented, entered in competition, or included in a college application.
Who have worked at the stage your student is building toward: raising rounds, navigating customer discovery, building products from scratch. That is different from instructions delivered by someone who has studied it.
Students who discover their concept needs to change, and work through that, leave with something more valuable than a finished product. They leave with the judgment to know why it works.
Our students deserve The best.
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Hear from Our Students
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"I volunteer with women who have experienced homelessness. A population that is disproportionately made up of former foster children. I wanted to build something that could help prepare them financially before a crisis hits, but I had no coding experience. By the end of the program I had a working app. I genuinely like this class also, as I also started doing individual projects on my own because I was inspired by this program. I really like how much the sessions were shaped around each student's specific project. Our mentor brought her own background into the feedback and the sessions were well run and genuinely interactive, with the input from other students in the group pushed my idea in directions I would not have reached by myself"
Cohort & Application Info
Cohorts share a start date, but individual session times are scheduled around your availability. If a conflict arises (e.g., AP exams, finals, competitions) sessions can be rescheduled with 48 hours notice. Applications received after the regular deadline are processed as late enrollment. Late applicants are matched within one to three weeks. Late pricing applies regardless of when enrollment occurs within the cycle.
Program Dates:
Standard: April 19 - June 28
Premium: April 19 - September 6
Deadlines:
Early: March 1, 2026
Regular: March 15, 2026
Program Dates:
Standard: June 21 through August 30
Premium: June 21 through November 8
Deadlines:
Early: May 3, 2026
Regular: May 17, 2026
Program Dates:
Standard: July 19 through September 27
Premium: July 19 through December 6
Deadlines:
Early: May 31, 2026
Regular: June 14, 2026
Program Dates:
Standard: September 13 through November 22
Premium: September 13 through February 21
Deadlines:
Early: August 16, 2026
Regular: August 30, 2026
We know you may have questions...
Most students talk about leadership. You will prove it.
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