For Ontario schools
Entrepreneurship education that meets your class where it is.
Use Launch League with the business program you already teach — or use our complete pathway when you want more support.
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How would you like to use Launch League?
Keep teaching your course. Launch League helps make it real. And if you need everything, it can give you a step-by-step program.
- Option 1I already teach business or entrepreneurshipAdd real-world mentors, competition, feedback and launch opportunities to what you already teach.Use with my course
- Option 2I want a ready-to-run programUse Launch League's lessons, slides, worksheets, projects and competition as a complete entrepreneurship experience.Run the full program
- Option 3I'm helping one student or a small groupGive students a guided, self-paced pathway they can complete on their own.Start a student
Already have a program?
Do the work once. Use it everywhere.
Students never redo work just because Launch League has its own format. What they built for your class is where they start.
One project. More opportunities.
- Already have a business plan assignment? Use it.It's the plan students pitch. Judges score the published rubric, not our template.
- Already have a pitch deck? Reuse it.It becomes the slide walkthrough video in a competition entry.
- Already running a business? Start where it is.Students open the Launch Sprint at the stage their business has actually reached.
- Already run a school competition? Keep it.Launch League is an additional judging opportunity and a provincial competition to go on to.
- Already have entrepreneurship lessons, a pilot or a competition?Keep what works. Add only the pieces that help — on paper or online.
- Starting from scratch?Ten lesson plans with slides, worksheets, a rubric and a letter home. Nothing to build.
Your course
Courses Launch League can support
Pick your course to see the relevant Launch League work, what students can produce, and what it doesn't do. You teach and assess the course; this shows where Launch League can plug in.
12 courses
- BEM1OGrade 9Building the Entrepreneurial MindsetBuilt for it
- BEP2OGrade 10Launching and Leading a BusinessBuilt for it
- BDI3CGrade 11Entrepreneurship: The VentureBuilt for it
- BDP3OGrade 11Entrepreneurship: The Enterprising PersonSupports part of it
- BDV4CGrade 12Entrepreneurship: Venture Planning in an Electronic AgeStrong fit
- BMI3CGrade 11Marketing: Goods, Services, EventsStrong fit
- BMX3EGrade 11Marketing: Retail and ServiceStrong fit
- BAF3MGrade 11Financial Accounting FundamentalsOptional connection
- BAI3EGrade 11Accounting EssentialsOptional connection
- BAT4MGrade 12Financial Accounting PrinciplesOptional connection
- BBB4MGrade 12International Business FundamentalsOptional connection
- BOH4MGrade 12Business Leadership: Management FundamentalsStrong fit
Course titles and descriptions come from the Ontario curriculum. Launch League doesn't grant credits or deliver course expectations. Detailed expectation-by-expectation coverage for BEM1O, BEP2O and Career Studies is in the requirements sheet (free teacher account).
Real work, not busywork
What students can build
Every one of these exists today, and every one is evidence a teacher can look at.
- Problem statement backed by real conversationsBusiness 101, Module 1
- Customer interviewsBusiness 101, Modules 1–2
- Target customer and positioningBusiness 101, Module 2
- Offer and reasoned priceBusiness 101, Module 3
- Unit economics and break-evenBusiness 101, Module 6
- One-page business planPlan builder
- Launch Sprint: offer, validation, setup, first sale, improve, growLaunch Sprint
- Sales, expenses and goals trackedBusiness dashboard
- 30-second, 60-second and five-minute pitchBusiness 101, Module 8
- Competition entry with judge feedbackPitch competition
- Business 101 certificate for the portfolioCertificate
- Financial literacy practiceMoney practice
What a classroom can't do alone
Real-world support
Mentors
Experienced local businesspeople who work with youth, matched by request.About mentorsJudges
Volunteer judges from Ontario business and community life score every entry.About judgingWritten feedback
Every complete competition entry gets written feedback, whether it places or not.How judging worksPitching
A 60-second pitch, a plan briefing and a slide walkthrough — the same three videos real competitions ask for.What students submitLaunch
The Launch Sprint takes a plan to a first paying customer, and keeps going after the assignment ends.The Launch SprintCompetition
A provincial pitch competition. Entries close March 31, 2027.The competition
Request
Bring Launch League to my class
A workshop, a kickoff, a pitch session, judges, a local entrepreneur, mentor matching or competition support. Tell us what would help and we'll reply to talk about what's possible.
A request isn't a booking. What we can offer depends on who's available near your school.
Already have a class on Launch League? Ask from the class's Support tab at /teach instead, and follow our reply there.
Chatham-Kent + Sarnia-Lambton
Local school pilot
Launch League is based in Chatham-Kent. Because schools in Chatham-Kent and Sarnia-Lambton are close to home, a local pilot can include more hands-on support than we can offer further away.
- Classroom visits
- Local entrepreneurs as guest speakers
- Mentor matching
- Local judges
- Pitch practice and pitch events
- Feedback for the teacher, not just the students
- Connections to local businesses
These are what a pilot can potentially include, planned with each school. Nothing is promised until we've talked.
One student or a small group
A path they can follow on their own
For a student working independently, a homeschool family, a library program or a youth group. Each step says what to do next and why.
Business 101
Eight modules, from finding a real problem to pitching it. Start Module 1.The one-page plan
Builds itself from their Business 101 answers. Open the plan builder.The Launch Sprint
From the plan to a first paying customer. See the stages.The competition
Three short videos and written feedback from judges. How to enter.
After the assignment
Want to actually launch it?
A course might only need a business plan. A student doesn't have to stop there. Everything after this point is optional, free, and doesn't need a teacher to manage it.
- Validate it — ten real conversations before spending a dollar.
- Build it — a name, a way to get paid, a way to be found.
- Sell it — a first customer who isn't family.
- Launch it — the paperwork, in plain words.
- Compete — the provincial pitch competition.
- Find a mentor — by request.
- Keep running it — track sales, improve, grow.
Beyond the business classroom
For co-op, SHSM and careers
Entrepreneurship isn't only for business students. These connect Launch League to programs your school already runs — as enrichment, never as a replacement for their own requirements.
- Co-op: requirements and curriculumThe Ontario co-op requirements, and where a student's own business fits as a placement.
- Co-op business lensOptional enrichment at any placement: how the business makes money, finds customers and could improve.
- SHSM: the five componentsIncluding a ready-to-run six-hour ICE sector-partnered experience.
- Entrepreneurship in your sectorConstruction, hospitality, ICT, manufacturing, arts, agriculture, health and wellness — with regulated work kept regulated.
- OYAP and dual creditsThe business half of a trade that apprentices say nobody taught them.
- Financial literacy practicePlain-language practice on the seven areas of the graduation requirement.
Competition
If your school already runs a competition, keep it.
Launch League gives students an additional pathway, another judging opportunity and a provincial competition. Pick what fits your class.
- Just use the program. No competition required.
- Enter the provincial competition. Students enter on their own, free, before March 31, 2027.
- Run a classroom challenge. Use the published rubric in your own room.
- Run a school championship. Your own event, your own rules — then encourage your best students to enter the provincial competition too.
- Request a local pitch event. Ask us — depends on availability.
- No redoing work. A student can enter with the business plan, deck or pitch they made for your class. Judges score the rubric, not the template.
- Run your own on the same rubric. The pitch challenge pack has a two-period plan, a judging sheet and feedback for every team.
- Nominate projects. From your class's Competition tab. Students still decide, and enter, themselves.
Free teacher account
Teacher resources
- Everything for MondayTen lesson plans, minute by minute, with projectable slides.
- Your classesCreate a class, share a join code, and see each student's progress and work.
- The paperwork, doneRubric, curriculum alignment, letter home, class tracker, and the requirement sheets.
- Consent, privacy and curriculumHow student accounts, consent and privacy work, and where Launch League fits the Ontario curriculum.
Questions
What teachers ask
- Does Launch League replace our Business Studies course?
- No. Your course stays yours — you teach it and you assess it. Launch League adds the parts a classroom struggles to provide on its own: real customers, mentors, judges, written feedback, a place to actually launch, and a provincial competition.
- My students already have a business plan. Do they have to redo it in your format?
- No. Judges score entries against a published rubric, not against our worksheet, so a plan written for your class is a complete starting point. Students can pitch it as it is and pick up the Launch Sprint at whatever stage their business has reached.
- We already run a school entrepreneurship competition. Does this compete with it?
- Keep it. Launch League is an additional pathway: another round of judging, written feedback, and a provincial competition your best students can go on to.
- Does Launch League count for credits or curriculum expectations?
- Launch League doesn't grant credits or deliver curriculum. It can support learning in a number of Ontario business courses, and each course page shows which Launch League work is relevant and what student work it produces. Teachers decide what counts and how it's assessed.
- What does it cost?
- The student program, the teacher toolkit and entering the competition are free.
- What about student privacy?
- Student work is private by default. Teachers see their own class only, and never student email addresses. Students under 18 need a parent or guardian's consent, and showing any student's work publicly needs separate, optional permission.
- Can you come to our class?
- Sometimes. Classroom visits, pitch workshops, judges and mentor matching depend on who's available near you, so they start with a request. We're based in Chatham-Kent, which is why local schools in Chatham-Kent and Sarnia-Lambton can often get more hands-on support.