Weekly Children's Business Incubator: Junior Board Members
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SURF Incubator, Seattle, United States
Junior Board Members: Get on the Board
A Weekly Boardroom and Business Incubator for Kids Ages 8–14
SURF is opening its startup community to the next generation.
For years, adults have come to SURF Incubator to build companies, test ideas, solve problems, meet collaborators, and learn from other founders.
Now, Seattle’s young people get that opportunity too.
Junior Board Members is a weekly, hands-on business incubator where kids can develop real businesses, products, services, inventions, books, games, media concepts, community initiatives, and other creative projects—inside an actual Seattle startup incubator.
Big Ideas Start Young
What Is Junior Board Members?
Junior Board Members combines a real business incubator with a kid-friendly board meeting.
Participants may bring something they are already building or use their first few meetings to discover what interests them.
They may:
Build an ongoing business or creative project
Start something completely new
Explore several possible ideas
Join another member’s project
Bring a question or problem to the board
Experiment until they discover something they genuinely want to pursue
This is not a traditional class where every child completes the same assignment.
Some members may spend several months developing one business.
Others may explore different ideas, change direction, collaborate with another member, or complete one project and begin another.
Participants may attend once, join us occasionally, or return every week to continue building.
What Can Junior Board Members Work On?
Members may:
Brainstorm business and project ideas
Develop products and services
Create names, brands, logos, advertisements, and prototypes
Explore pricing, costs, revenue, profit, and budgeting
Develop books, shows, games, channels, and other media concepts
Practice marketing, public speaking, selling, and pitching
Research customers and competitors
Test ideas and collect feedback
Solve problems with help from