New Learning Spaces for the EBA students at Kempsville HS
Entrepreneurship and Business Academy “Look Book”
The Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School was approved by the School Board of the City of Virginia Beach in October 2015, and the new academy welcomed its first class of students in September 2016. Rising ninth-graders were selected for enrollment through the Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) Advanced Academic and Academy Programs application and selection process.
Students will engage in curriculum around three strands of study that include entrepreneurship and innovation, business information technology and corporate finance. To enhance learning experiences for academy students, Kempsville High School will have various flexible learning spaces that will be used to foster an innovator’s mindset.
Classrooms will be designed with an open and flexible feel, including a movable wall to allow a large collaboration for interdisciplinary work among teachers and students. The furniture is purposely designed to allow students to set up for group work and easily move around within the room. There will be multiple white boards and wall space to share and adjust ideas as students embark on the design process.
The Makerspace within Kempsville High School will be the focal point for the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy program. The front of the Makerspace is a place where students can work in groups to ideate and collaborate with one another in a structured or unstructured setting. A section in the back of the Makerspace will have 3D printers, a laser cutter, tools, and other materials with which students can engage to make and create products, services and put their ideas into action. The Makerspace will be a place that students can work during school hours, and in the evenings students, will run the Makerspace as a facility to be used by community members through a membership process. Once constructed, the Makerspace will take on a life of its own, changing as the needs and opportunities of our budding entrepreneurs and innovators change.
The Entrepreneurship and Business Academy will host a state-of-the-art seminar space that will provide students a professional arena where they can pitch ideas to forums of business leaders, community partners, and fellow classmates. This area will also serve as space for community leaders and business partners to speak with academy students about entrepreneurship, information technology, business, and finance.
There will be a 21st century conference room built in the space so students can hold their own board meetings and business meetings. This will provide them a professional opportunity to extend their learning and conduct the types of meetings they would in the business world.
The hallways surrounding the academy spaces are created as additional learning spaces to extend the learning beyond the classroom spaces. The hallways will include laptop charging stations, white board walls, flexible seating for group collaboration, conference areas for students to meet in teams, and displays that will showcase academy student work. There are also areas built into the hallways that extend the work of the Makerspace including green screen zones where students can film and edit media work.
The entrance of the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy will feature a donor wall where donors who have pledged $1,000 or more toward the capital improvement of the academy space will be featured. Names of contributing business, organizations or individuals will be engraved on the donor wall by academy students.
Business Leaders who support the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy can assist the program in developing and inspiring the future innovators of Virginia Beach and our larger Hampton Roads community.
For information about donating to the capital improvement fund for the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School, contact Meghan Timlin, Academy Coordinator at 757-648-5400 or via email at [email protected].
Pictures below showcase the new learning spaces to be developed at Kempsville High School and the files showcase the space at Kempsville. Construction took place in the Summer of 2018 and was completed in the Fall of 2019. Come by and see our new spaces during one of our Information Nights or school-sponsored activities!
The Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School was approved by the School Board of the City of Virginia Beach in October 2015, and the new academy welcomed its first class of students in September 2016. Rising ninth-graders were selected for enrollment through the Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) Advanced Academic and Academy Programs application and selection process.
Students will engage in curriculum around three strands of study that include entrepreneurship and innovation, business information technology and corporate finance. To enhance learning experiences for academy students, Kempsville High School will have various flexible learning spaces that will be used to foster an innovator’s mindset.
Classrooms will be designed with an open and flexible feel, including a movable wall to allow a large collaboration for interdisciplinary work among teachers and students. The furniture is purposely designed to allow students to set up for group work and easily move around within the room. There will be multiple white boards and wall space to share and adjust ideas as students embark on the design process.
The Makerspace within Kempsville High School will be the focal point for the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy program. The front of the Makerspace is a place where students can work in groups to ideate and collaborate with one another in a structured or unstructured setting. A section in the back of the Makerspace will have 3D printers, a laser cutter, tools, and other materials with which students can engage to make and create products, services and put their ideas into action. The Makerspace will be a place that students can work during school hours, and in the evenings students, will run the Makerspace as a facility to be used by community members through a membership process. Once constructed, the Makerspace will take on a life of its own, changing as the needs and opportunities of our budding entrepreneurs and innovators change.
The Entrepreneurship and Business Academy will host a state-of-the-art seminar space that will provide students a professional arena where they can pitch ideas to forums of business leaders, community partners, and fellow classmates. This area will also serve as space for community leaders and business partners to speak with academy students about entrepreneurship, information technology, business, and finance.
There will be a 21st century conference room built in the space so students can hold their own board meetings and business meetings. This will provide them a professional opportunity to extend their learning and conduct the types of meetings they would in the business world.
The hallways surrounding the academy spaces are created as additional learning spaces to extend the learning beyond the classroom spaces. The hallways will include laptop charging stations, white board walls, flexible seating for group collaboration, conference areas for students to meet in teams, and displays that will showcase academy student work. There are also areas built into the hallways that extend the work of the Makerspace including green screen zones where students can film and edit media work.
The entrance of the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy will feature a donor wall where donors who have pledged $1,000 or more toward the capital improvement of the academy space will be featured. Names of contributing business, organizations or individuals will be engraved on the donor wall by academy students.
Business Leaders who support the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy can assist the program in developing and inspiring the future innovators of Virginia Beach and our larger Hampton Roads community.
For information about donating to the capital improvement fund for the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School, contact Meghan Timlin, Academy Coordinator at 757-648-5400 or via email at [email protected].
Pictures below showcase the new learning spaces to be developed at Kempsville High School and the files showcase the space at Kempsville. Construction took place in the Summer of 2018 and was completed in the Fall of 2019. Come by and see our new spaces during one of our Information Nights or school-sponsored activities!
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