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    Summer at Babson offers a range of pre-college experiences that bring our hands-on, entrepreneurial approach to high school students. Options include credit-bearing Babson Academy Summer Study, the non-credit Arthur M. Blank School Summer Program, and additional programming in Miami, giving students multiple ways to explore their interests and build practical skills, connections, and confidence before college.

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Summer Venture Program

Summer Venture Program

 
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The Summer Venture Program is a 10-week intensive experience designed to accelerate the development of student entrepreneurial ventures.

About the Summer Venture Program

SVP PresentationThe Summer Venture Program (SVP) is a 10-week intensive experience that builds entrepreneurial skills and accelerates the development of student ventures. Each year approximately 15 teams are chosen among the most promising graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurs from Babson College, F.W. Olin College of Engineering, and Wellesley College.

The teams gain intensive feedback from advisors and experts, participate in world-class programming including workshops, speaker panels, office hours, and founder talks, and receive resources including co-working space, housing, and meal plans. As teams work to build their businesses, they make invaluable connections to potential customers, partners, investors, and industry experts. At the culmination of the program, teams present at the Summer Venture Showcase to an audience drawn from the Babson community and the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Participants form lifelong bonds with their fellow entrepreneurs, and after the program, they join a powerful network of hundreds of SVP alumni that span over a decade.

The Leader

Since its inception in 2009, the Summer Venture Program has influenced the lives of over 430 student entrepreneurs. Notable past ventures include DARTdrones, DetraPel, Mighty Well, Think Board, and Virool. Babson is recognized nationally as the No. 1 leader in entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report, and the Summer Venture Program has been recognized regionally as the category winner for education 50 on Fire by BostInno. Embracing Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® (ET&A™) ourselves, the program has been finely honed over the course of 18 years, and today represents the best of entrepreneurship education.