Dwight School's Spark Tank

On Developing An Innovation And Entrepreneurship Program

Matthew Moran
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My name is Matthew Moran and I direct the Spark Tank program at Dwight School in New York, NY. Spark Tank is a K-12 incubator, sponsored by The Dwight School Foundation and designed to nurture student innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills beyond the classroom. Beginning in kindergarten, students can participate in Spark Tank to develop their ideas for new businesses, non-profits, or products. Students are eligible to receive financial grants to support their projects as well as mentoring from the panel of experts on the Spark Tank Committee.

Dwight is one of the only K-12 schools in America to offer this incubator experience. We believe that the next “big ideas” will come from the under-18 sector. Spark Tank provides students with real-life experience and essential skills beyond academics and theory, so they can pursue their dreams now rather than at some uncertain time in the future.

Since we launched Spark Tank in 2015, this has been the most successful year for Spark Tank entrepreneurs, in particular thanks to the success of two non-profits SustainABLE Start and Sole Purpose, both of which launched during the...

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