FUN FACTS
• 61% of small business owners use personal funds during a financial crisis.
• 82% of businesses fall through because of poor cash management.
• 23.4% of small startup owners are women.
• 8% of entrepreneurs stated that money is their major motivation.
• Men are more likely to receive financing to start a business.
• Retail and food are the most popular industries for small business owners.
Unlocking the World of
Academic Exploration for Students
Nurture Your Inner Teen Entrepreneur with Spike Lab
Academic Quests takes pride in collaborating with international organisations to provide enriching opportunities for students.
Do you aspire to be a purpose-driven teen entrepreneur? Are you seeking opportunities to make a real impact while standing out to top colleges? Spike Lab (SL) is your gateway to becoming an unforgettable teen entrepreneur and change-maker.
Here’s what you need to know:
Exceptional College Acceptance Rates
- 100% of SL students have gained admission to top 50 colleges and universities or an Early Decision school.
- 86% of SL students have been accepted to their reach or “high-risk” colleges.
- 63% of SL students were admitted to their Early Decision or Restrictive Early Action school.
- Accepted Everywhere: In 2022, SL students secured spots at renowned institutions like Stanford, Cornell, Brown, UPenn, Columbia, NYU, USC, UC Berkeley, and many more. These opportunities extend beyond Ivy League schools, making SL a valuable choice.
What is Spike Lab?
Spike Lab is a high school entrepreneurship program that transforms students into founders. Through this program, you’ll develop essential entrepreneurship and innovation skills by creating a Spike – a passion-based project with a real-world impact.
The Spike Coaching Program
Spike coaching is the core work at Spike Lab. First, students are taught to identify and develop their Spike direction, from which they craft an unforgettable founder origin story that distinguishes their Spike. Then, SL cultivates students’ executive and innovative skills through building a Spike, a project that is uncommon among teens, rooted in genuine passion, and unique.
Spike Coaching Program consists of two core components:
Component 1: Spike Incubation
Develop a Spike that aligns with your identity and purpose. Your project could range from launching a business, starting a non-profit, conducting research, or a combination of all three. Every Spike is unique, just like your passion.
Component 2: Story & Plan
Students craft a compelling and cohesive narrative to communicate their personality and profile and build a comprehensive plan to help them realize these long- and short-term goals.
To organize progress and create clear intermittent deliverables, we’ve split Spike coaching into six developmental stages:
1. Founder Story
Craft your unique origin story.
2. Identification
Connect your Spike with the real world.
3. Validation
Test your idea and build a launch plan.
4. Launch
Make your Spike a reality.
5. Traction
Achieve real-world impact and adjust as needed.
6. Scale
Keep growing and evolving your Spike.
Coaching Process at Spike Lab
Spike Lab’s coaches are seasoned entrepreneurs and experts in teaching entrepreneurship. Your coach will be carefully matched to you based on personality, interests, and learning style. This close mentorship is crucial for your success.
Program Fee
The Starter Package
$6,600 (12 sessions)
Beyond the Starter Package
$550 / per session
The Starter Package
- 12-session bundle to kickstart your Spike journey.
- The average time to complete a Spike is around 18 months.
- We recommend avoiding long breaks during this phase to maintain momentum
Beyond the Starter Package
After completing the Starter Package, students can choose how they want to continue with their Spike Coaching. SL charges the same price per session for additional sessions after the Starter Package. These are billed in increments of 4 sessions.
The Spike Foundations Program
- A four-week intensive innovation-entrepreneurship Boot Camp.
- Designed for teens aged 13 to 17.
- Learn startup frameworks, innovation, and executive skills.
- Enhance your extracurricular profile.
- Weekly 90-minute 1-on-1 coaching sessions.
- Troubleshooting concierge sessions.
- Unlimited messaging and calls.
- Progress updates and thorough evaluations.
Celebrating Brilliant Spike Students
Celebrate the achievements of our class of 2024 spike founders! This year’s graduating seniors not only launched incredible spikes but also secured admissions to some of the world’s most prestigious colleges. Here’s a glimpse of our students’ outstanding results this year:
- 100% of our students who launched a spike were accepted into top 50 colleges.
- 93% of our students gained admission to a “reach” college.
- 73% of our Early Decision or Restrictive Early Action applicants were accepted.
Spike Lab Introducing Two New Summer Programs
HyperJump Summer Internship Program
Paid internship in software development preparing advanced high school coders for a career in tech. Spike Lab new summer program is helpful in various ways.
Spike Summer Bootcamp
A 4-week bootcamp version of our flagship spike coaching program, for students with time over the summer to identify and launch a passion project.
View The Useful Information Regarding This Program:
In this post we outline the variety of spikes that seniors worked on in disciplines ranging from AgTech to children’s literature, habit formation to Alzheimers. And we send congratulations to our seniors that got into a host of great colleges including Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Duke, Cornell, Penn, UC Berkeley, and many more!
If you’re laboring away trying to figure out what to do this summer, labor no more; build a Spike. Pursue your own ambitious passion project, a custom crafted venture — business, service, artistic, academic, athletic, or anything else — that fits with your “story” and is tied to your passions and interests. You can patchwork it together with self-led learning, internships and other things if you wish but make a Spike the keystone to your summer.
Program Dates will be announced soon.