Teachers
Prepare your students for the real world of entrepreneurship
Why Get Involved
Blue Ocean Mini-Course
Takes less than 35 minutes to complete!
Get Valuable Teaching Resources for Your Class
By registering, you will get free access to the online Blue Ocean Mini-Course which provides valuable content you can use in your classroom. The online course will help your students understand the fundamentals of Blue Ocean Strategy and help them prepare for their pitch. Your class will walk away with a new perspective and the tools and frameworks to build new entrepreneurial businesses of tomorrow.
The mini-course is fast, fun and interactive. Both teachers and students can complete this free course to earn the official course completion certificate. To date, more than 20,000 students have taken the course.
It takes less than 35 minutes to complete, so you can use it during your class!
Make Entrepreneurship Exciting for Your Students
Teachers around the world are integrating Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship into their curriculum to make entrepreneurship exciting for their high school students. This provides the students a practical opportunity to conceptualize innovative businesses that stand apart from the competition, pitch ideas to experienced entrepreneurs and win cash prizes.
Integrating the Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition into your class is easy.
Whatever the big idea is that your students have, the Blue Ocean Competition is the perfect platform to share it and receive feedback and mentorship from successful entrepreneurs around the world.
Stand Out as an Innovator and Get Recognized
Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneurs Corp. recognizes educators and dedicated supporters at local and international level for outstanding and significant contribution to the organization’s mission of preparing high school students for the real world of entrepreneurship.
Blue Ocean Teacher Champions are showcased on our website and through our social media as the leading innovators exemplifying how to effectively teach entrepreneurship to high school students.
Blue Ocean Teacher Champions also get certificates of outstanding contribution for integrating Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship in their curriculum.
Recognizing Ms. Kristin Taylor of Centennial High School.
Win Awards
$500 award for each of three selected Blue Ocean Teacher Champions, recognizing their outstanding commitment and contribution to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship among high school students.
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Win Recognition for Your School
By getting involved and inspiring your students to participate in the Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition, teachers have a chance to get:
- Certificate of Distinction awarded to Blue Ocean Teacher Champions.
- Certificate of Recognition for supporting Innovation and Entrepreneurship in High Schools awarded to all participating teachers.
- Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift books for your library.
The award money can be used for starting a blue ocean entrepreneurship club at the school or for supporting activities that help students start blue ocean businesses.
Some high schools that have won prize money in the past include:
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
- Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York
- Spanish River Community High School, Boca Raton, Florida
- South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
- Herningsholm Erhversgymnasium, Herning, Denmark
- Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, California
- Irvington High School, Fremont, CA
- Barrington High School, Barrington, IL
- Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California
Meet Eric Sera, the 2025 Blue Ocean Teacher Super Champion
Eric Sera is a dedicated business educator at Munster High School in Indiana, where he brings real-world innovation into the classroom. After discovering the Blue Ocean Strategy during his graduate studies at DePaul University, Eric set out to integrate its principles into his entrepreneurship curriculum—culminating in Munster’s first-ever participation in the Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition. His thoughtful, hands-on approach has sparked student creativity, strengthened critical thinking, and inspired a wave of entrepreneurial spirit throughout the school.
Read Eric’s post where he explains how he integrates the Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition into the Classroom
Hear from a Business Teacher, Just like You
Ilene Littman is a teacher at Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, New York. In addition, she is also a DECA Advisor.
Ilene has embedded the Blue Ocean Competition into her high school entrepreneurship class and used it in conjunction with DECA.
It doesn’t matter if her students are interested in sports, STEM, the arts, or something entirely different because the Blue Ocean Competition allows everyone to pitch their revolutionary idea. Her students have submitted pitches for both for-profit and non-profit concepts in industries including consumer products, healthcare, education, agriculture, technology, and many others.
“The competition enriches the marketing curriculum and provides students with essential entrepreneurial, critical thinking, creativity and collaboration skills to prepare them for the future.”
Meet Top Blue Ocean Teacher Champions
Meet trailblazing teachers who have integrated the Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition into their classes.
Sana Abdul Salam
Aga Khan School, Garden, Pakistan
Derek Arnell
Ruben S. Ayala High School
Bryan Pederson
Pillager High School
Ilene Littman
Ward Melville High School
Alain Bazile
Spanish River High School
Kristie Letter
Peak To Peak High School
Michelle Wargo
Skyline High School
Khokon Mahmud
DPS STS School, Dhaka
Allwyn Samuel Bryner
International School of Panama
Tendai Cleopas Magaya
Mattayom WatMaiKrongThong School, Thailand
Henrik Graversen
HERNINGSHOLM Erhvervsskole & Gymnasier, Denmark
Eric Sera
Munster High School, Indiana, USA
Teacher Registration Form
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