The Cashless Incubator is a skills for resources trading game. It also teaches about contracts, market testing ideas, and investing.
The Cashless Incubator is one of the two games along with Pitch Drill that will be played at our upcoming Teen Entrepreneur Fall Series events starting Tuesday, October 7th at Greensboro Public Library branches sponsored by Summit Credit Union.
For those interested in the symbolism of our logo, hope you enjoy this video. It also gives an overview of what we do.
Don’t forget to RSVP your teens for one of our eight Teen Entrepreneur events at Greensboro Public Library branches for their chance at $300 and other prizes for launching their own startup. Click here for details.
We are excited to announce the follow up to our successful Economic Literacy Summer Series at Greensboro Public Library with the Teen Entrepreneur Fall Series sponsored by Summit Credit Union.
This series is different in two big ways:
1) Each Teen Entrepreneur event consists of our Pitch Drill and Cashless Incubator games held back to back per event to help players learn in a fun environment the basics of developing a business plan, presenting it, developing product ideas, market testing those ideas, and how to trade their skills for resources with little or no money.
2) After completing a Teen Entrepreneur event, players have the opportunity to submit their own teen business idea to compete with seven others at our November 18th PitchPocalypse contest with $300 going to the winning startup along with great prizes for 2nd and 3rd place winners. Details provided on the entry form available to players of our Teen Entrepreneur Events.
We’ll be going into more detail as these events approach. In the mean time, please help spread the word about this great series coming to the Greensboro Public Library. Here are the events dates:
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
Glenwood Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-297-5000 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
Central Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-2471 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
Benjamin Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-7540 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
McNairy Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-2015 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
Vance Chavis Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-5838 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
Hemphill Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-2925 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
McGirt-Horton Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-5810 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT
Teen Entrepreneur
6:00-8:00pm
Kathleen Clay Library
Greensboro, NC
Call 336-373-2923 to RSVP
PUBLIC (FREE) AUDIENCE EVENT
PitchPocalypse
6:00-8:00pm
Central Library
Downtown Greensboro, NC
(Players Chosen from Participants of Teen Entrepreneur Events)
[Note: the August 30th event has been cancelled]
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT – On Saturday, August 16th and 23rd from 1:00 to 3:00pm, Asheboro Public Library will hold Economy, Jr. free for area teens sponsored by Truliant Federal Credit Union.
The goal of these events is to teach young adults about real world economics by having them play through the game as a customer spending a month’s paycheck on bills for housing, utilities, child care, groceries, and more for them and their families without going bankrupt. The other half of participants will play as the merchants selling products and services to customers with the aim of covering their overhead costs and posting a profit. Customers and merchants which switch roles half way through the game to experience both sides of the economic coin.
The entrepreneur support group Shift, Nussbaum Center’s Entrepreneur Group, is helping organize volunteers for the Saturday events.
Asheboro Public Library
201 Worth Street
Asheboro, NC 27203
RSVP (if you like) for the upcoming Saturday, August 23rd event below:
[Events Completed]
Thanks to all the branches of the Greensboro Public Library along with sponsor Greensboro Municipal Federal Credit for making the Economic Literacy Summer Series possible. Not to mention all the volunteers and participants. We’ll be announcing a similar event in the fall, but in the meantime, check out pictures from this June 7th to August 5th summer program:
These are the pictures from our final event of the Economic Literacy Summer Series sponsored by Greensboro Municipal Federal Credit Union. Thank you Central Library for being the last stop of the Summer Series.
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT – This event is the last of the 8 event Economic Literacy Summer Series sponsored by Greensboro Municipal Federal Credit Union. Bring out your teens on August 5th, (Tuesday Night) 6-7:30pm to Central Library to play Economy, Jr. for FREE.
Central Branch
219 North Church St.
Greensboro, NC 27402-3178
RSVP for your teen by calling 336-373-2471
Great event at Vance Chavis Library sponsored by Greensboro Municipal Federal Credit Union as both Pitch Drill and the new Cashless Incubator game were played. Big thanks to the participants which included 6 players who came out again after playing Economy, Jr. and this was the 3rd ReBuildUp event for one of those 6.
We got wrapped up in beta testing the new Cashless Incubator game and only managed to get in one picture of the action for the entire event:
Learning how to fill out a skills for resources contract
The Economic Literacy Summer Series sponsored by Greensboro Municipal Federal Credit Union has part two of ReBuildUp’s Jobs Course at Vance Chavis Library with Pitch Drill on Thursday, July 31st 6:00-7:30pm FREE for area teens.
We’ll also beta test the new Cashless Incubator game for participants after playing Pitch Drill. The Cashless Incubator is a hybrid of Economy, Jr. and Pitch Drill where players use contracts to trade their skills for resources they’ll use when coming up with a product to pitch to the other players in a :30 seconds commercial.
The top three winners with get a full :60 seconds to make an investment pitch to the other players. The winner is determined by who gets the most funding and we also spotlight the biggest investor. The goal is to show players how to market test their product ideas with little money.
Come on out and see both these games for yourself:
Vance Chavis Branch
900 S. Benbow Road
Greensboro, NC 27406
RSVP for your teen by calling 336-373-5838
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ReBuildUp’s Pitch Drill and Cashless Incubator, Becoming an Investor Ready Entrepreneur All Day Workshop, ReBuildUp’s Economy, Jr., and Fast Facts on Starting a Business
Show Notes / Mentioned Events:
Triad Startup Calendar
Wednesday July 30th to Tuesday August 5th
– THURSDAY –
Vance Chavis Library
Pitch Drill & The Cashless Incubator
6:00-7:30pm
Greensboro, NC
Click Here for Details
– TUESDAY –
Becoming an Investor Ready Entrepreneur
8:00am-5:30pm
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
Click Here for details
Central Library
Economy, Jr.
6:00-7:30pm
Downtown Greensboro, NC
Click Here for Details
Fast Facts on Starting a Business
6:00-8:00pm
High Point Public Library
High Point, NC
Click Here for details
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