School for tween and teen entrepreneurs opens locations in Wixom, Troy

Kidpreneur, the entrepreneurial education company for tweens and teens, is in the process of opening two new locations in Wixom and Troy.

The Wixom-based startup is opening its second location in Troy this month, a move that should help double its enrollment. The 1-year-old company helps teens learn the basics of starting a business and other new economy skills, such as software development.

“We want them to be able to compete for an internship with college students,” says Thanh Tran, founder of Kidpreneur. “We also want them to be able to build with these skills. We want to them to take this education and do something with it.”

Kidpreneur got its start in Northville a little more than year ago. It also opened a temporary location in downtown Detroit before settling down in Wixom. It now teaches classes on digital arts, coding, robotics, and video game design. It averages six kids per class and teaches about 75 kids per month.

“We shrunk the class size because we wanted to get more kids more personal time,” Tran says.

He expects the number of teens and tweens leveraging his course to double over the next year as the second location in Troy gains traction.

“We have a model that works very well,” Tran says.

Source: Thanh Tran, founder of Kidpreneur
Writer: Jon Zemke

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