My Future Career

This effort will see a small team of motivated social influencers conduct scientific interviews of 50 successful Belizeans (entrepreneurs, artists, lab technicians, doctors, CEOs, athletes, engineers, etc) in their favorite places and find out why they have been able to achieve success in this difficult little country. We will analyze the results and write a book for primary and high school children with the results from the interviews. We will tie in the printed content with videos which we will make available on the internet. Schools that adopt the books will have free access to the video content. We hope to share the secrets of success with childern who are on the borderline in life. We will influence them to fall into the group that achieves and strives for progress.
Name
Frantz
Last name
Smith
At what stage is your proposal?
Design (Prototype/MVP in development)
What category/categories do you want to address with your idea?
Education
Describe the need or problem you want to address
There are few opportunities that Belizean children from the countryside or the inner city can learn some of the basic life success factors that thier counterparts from previlaged areas such as Belmopan or north Belize City are exposed to. This book will do the hard work of unearthing the secrets of success that are specific to Belize and will put them in print and electronic format in a way that most, if not all children, can acces and use. We will tease out the secrets in a way that is a specialized field of research and simplify complex knowledge into some basic truths of life. We will then package these so that teachers and schools can impart and reinforce.
What is the main product or service you will offer?
The first product is a book with life experiences of the most successful Belizeans alive. A workbook to test appreciation and the nuances that these success stories convey through their interviews placed online. The second output is therefore online educational content for chidren who are not strong readers but need to learn and benefit just as well from listening and observing the noverbal messages from successful people. In these videos, we will have Belize's most successful minds give business ideas and life skills advice to people who will most likely never get to meet and get lessons from highly successful people.
Briefly describe the community or population that will benefit from your solution and how do you plan to involve them in the project
We will benefit childern that have a natural inclination for independence and leadership. In the rural areas and inner city these traits can lead children to do good or bad things. We will lead them to the path that has been taken by the people in society who choose to go down the path of good. We will help prepare them for a life of challenges.
Does your proposal have a business model (i.e. strategy to generate revenue)? Please describe
Yes. We will publish a book of the findings and offer it to upper primary and high schools. The book will also come with a workbook. We envision that the books will be able to sell for $30 or $40 Belize dollars per copy and the workbook for $30. These books will be complemented by elearning interviews which schools that adopt the book will have free access to. We can easily manage the access to the videos.
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This is a very authentic and innovative initiative that will greatly motivate our youths and improve their future and by extent, our entire country! I can’t wait to see this project materialize!
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3 years ago
I fully endorse the idea of Mr. Frantz Smith's "My Future Career". Belize will benefit greatly from his educative project - in particular the nation's primary and high school children, who certainly require modules of leadership and career orientation. I particularly believe it is a great idea that he shall incorporate live examples of successful community members. Mr. Smith has the capability and intelligence to execute this project well to completion. And the meshing of a book, online content, and a workbook is clearly a foolproof method to captivate and effect results from the target audience!
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3 years ago
This concept is novel & brilliant in that it will allow students to gain knowledge & valuable insight into how successful careers were developed. The goal is to empower students to develop their own successful careers. My suggestion to improve efficiency of the program is to increase the number of successful Belizeans to be interviewed and then categorize them into 2 main groups; the first group will contain Belizeans who did not undergo a higher formal education or whose higher education did not necessarily play a pivotal role in developing their careers (e.g. athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs etc). This group could be used to develop a book specifically for primary school students. The second group will contain Belizeans who achieved success which relied heavily on a higher formal education (e.g. architects, doctors, engineers etc.). Data from the second group could then be used to develop a book for highschool students. In other words, two books ought to be developed.
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3 years ago
That’s a brilliant idea Diego. Maybe we can indeed split it in two for different levels. Thanks for this.
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