We already run an entrepreneurship program through a ministry pilot. Why would we add this?

You might not need to add much. Keep the program. What Launch League can add sits around it: a printable workbook, written feedback from a judge on every student's plan, local awards, and a province-wide competition your students can go on to. Start with one gap, if there is one.

Our board is pulling back from one-to-one technology. Is this a platform?

It doesn't have to be. The workbook is printed, the lesson plans and worksheets are printable, and a class can run the whole thing on paper. Technology comes in only where it adds something — a phone-recorded pitch, a competition entry — and a class can do that part in one sitting on a school computer. Digital or paper, it's the same program.

Behind the scenes. AI helps Launch League keep administration low and participation free. It doesn't replace student thinking: students explain their own reasoning in their own voice in three short pitch videos, judges score those against the published rubric, and the rules make students responsible for every claim in their entry.

Does this compete with Junior Achievement, Summer Company or a school competition?

No. There are already excellent programs in Ontario, and Launch League is built to fill the gaps between them and to point students toward them. If a student is a fit for Summer Company, we say so. If your school runs a competition, keep it — ours is one more round of judging and a provincial stage to go on to.

What does it cost the board?

Nothing. The student program, the workbook's online edition, the teacher toolkit and entering the competition are free. Where a community wants a local award, a local sponsor funds it.

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. A paper-only class shares nothing with us at all.

For schools already teaching entrepreneurship

Keep what works. Add what helps.

Already running an entrepreneurship course, a competition or an experiential-learning program? You don't need another curriculum. Launch League can add the pieces you're missing — from a printable workbook and business-plan tools to local judging, written feedback and an Ontario-wide competition.

See the pieces Start with one gap

Three ways in

Same program. Three sizes.

Some schools have nothing yet and want all of it. Some have something good and want one piece. Both are the right way to use Launch League.

Level 1
Full program
For schools with little or no entrepreneurship programming.
- Business 101 — eight modules, free
- The Launch League Workbook
- One-page business plan
- Launch Sprint to a first customer
- Provincial competition and judging
- Teacher reporting on a class
The six-class plan
Level 2
Competition partner
For boards that already teach entrepreneurship well.
- You keep your curriculum
- Students enter with the plan they already wrote
- A submission structure and three short videos
- Volunteer judges and a published rubric
- Written feedback on every complete entry
- Local and regional awards, then province-wide
How the competition works
Level 3
Resource layer
For one teacher who wants one thing.
- A printable workbook
- A lesson, a worksheet or a rubric
- A business-plan tool
- A pitch guide
- A mentor or career connection
- No change to the course
The teacher toolkit

Pick the pieces

Take one. Or nine.

Every one of these exists today. None of them requires the others, and none requires changing your course.

Your curriculum stays yours.

Technology only where it earns its place

Digital or paper. Same program.

Some boards are deliberately stepping back from one-to-one technology. Launch League was built so that doesn't matter.

Option A · Online

Students use the Launch League platform: Business 101, the plan, the Launch Sprint, the entry. The teacher sees the class's progress.

Option B · Paper

Print the workbook, the lesson plans and the worksheets and run the whole unit offline. Nothing about a student is shared with us.

Option C · Mix

Teach on paper. Use the platform only where it adds something — recording the pitch videos on a phone, or submitting a competition entry, which a class can do in one sitting on a school computer.

The workbook comes as a registered PDF edition and as printable trackers; the toolkit's lesson plans and worksheets print as one booklet.

A straight answer on AI

It keeps our admin low. It doesn't do the thinking.

AI is how a small team can offer this free across Ontario: it keeps administration low and participation free. It does not replace a student's thinking, and the program is built so that it can't.

Students explain their own reasoning, in their own voice, in three short pitch videos — a 60-second pitch, a plan briefing and a slide walkthrough.
The plan briefing video asks a student to walk through who the customer is, how it makes money and what they'd do next — in their own words. Judges score that against a published rubric.
The rules make students responsible for every fact, number and claim in their entry, however it was drafted.
A paper class can run the entire program without any of it.

“Who is the customer, and why did you decide that?”

The question every business owner gets asked, and the one the plan briefing video puts to every student, on camera. A student who can answer it has learned the thing. Whatever tools drafted the plan, that answer can only come from them.

How a province-wide program stays local

Standard backbone. Local edges.

Every community's students are judged the same way. How each community gets there is its own call.

The same everywhere

One competition deadline
One published judging rubric
One submission format
Written feedback on every complete entry
Student records and privacy handled the same way everywhere
The provincial competition

Yours to decide

How the curriculum is delivered
Whether the workbook is used, and how
Local awards and who sponsors them
Local judges
A live event, or none
Local award categories, venue, timing
How much technology is used, if any

Not a replacement for anything

Ontario already has excellent programs.

Ministry pilots, Junior Achievement, Summer Company, Futurpreneur, school competitions, co-op. Launch League is designed to fill the gaps between them and make it easier for a student to find the right one.

Start with one gap

Tell us what's missing

No pitch, no package. Name the one piece that would help your existing program and we'll reply to talk about it. If the honest answer is that you're covered, we'll say so.

Teachers at a school board on our list get teacher access the same day they ask. Everything else starts with a conversation.

Questions boards ask

Straight answers

We already run an entrepreneurship program through a ministry pilot. Why would we add this?: You might not need to add much. Keep the program. What Launch League can add sits around it: a printable workbook, written feedback from a judge on every student's plan, local awards, and a province-wide competition your students can go on to. Start with one gap, if there is one.
Our board is pulling back from one-to-one technology. Is this a platform?: It doesn't have to be. The workbook is printed, the lesson plans and worksheets are printable, and a class can run the whole thing on paper. Technology comes in only where it adds something — a phone-recorded pitch, a competition entry — and a class can do that part in one sitting on a school computer. Digital or paper, it's the same program.
Where does AI fit?: Behind the scenes. AI helps Launch League keep administration low and participation free. It doesn't replace student thinking: students explain their own reasoning in their own voice in three short pitch videos, judges score those against the published rubric, and the rules make students responsible for every claim in their entry.
Does this compete with Junior Achievement, Summer Company or a school competition?: No. There are already excellent programs in Ontario, and Launch League is built to fill the gaps between them and to point students toward them. If a student is a fit for Summer Company, we say so. If your school runs a competition, keep it — ours is one more round of judging and a provincial stage to go on to.
What does it cost the board?: Nothing. The student program, the workbook's online edition, the teacher toolkit and entering the competition are free. Where a community wants a local award, a local sponsor funds it.
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. A paper-only class shares nothing with us at all.

Looking for the full picture instead? Launch League for Ontario schools starts from your course.