A HARRINGTON FOUNDATION PROGRAM
Turn your big idea into a real business.
A free, eight-week virtual program where middle and high school students create a product, build a company, and pitch it — with a shot at personal mentorship from Kevin Harrington, the original Shark. Oh, and our first winner got a surprise $10,000 check.
Free · Virtual · 8 weeks · Grades 6–12
$0 to apply
$10,000 prize
8
Weeks
25
Students per cohort
$0
Cost to apply
$10,000
1st place prize
The mission
We turn dreamers into doers.
Most entrepreneurship programs hand students a textbook. We hand them a microphone, a customer, and a deadline. Writing a business plan is not building a business — taking an idea, putting it into motion, and offering it to a real person is.
Learn by doing
Week after week, our students don’t study entrepreneurship. They practice it: testing ideas, talking to customers, making offers, and learning from what comes back.
Build something real
Three live sessions a week. Real motion in between. Games, mini-challenges, and real feedback turn an idea into a product and a company.
Pitch to win
Every cohort ends with a final pitch. The standout student earns personal mentorship from Kevin Harrington — the original Shark.
An orignal Shark
$6B+ in product sales
The mentor
The kid with the best pitch gets Kevin Harrington.
One standout founder walks away with personal mentorship from Kevin Harrington: the original Shark, inventor of the infomercial, and the man behind $6 billion in product sales.
“The best entrepreneurs aren’t the ones with the best plans. They’re the ones who actually start.”
— Kevin Harrington
25 students. One winner. One Shark.
Our first winner just made history.
Our very first cohort has wrapped — and one standout founder took the final pitch. The prize: private mentorship from Kevin Harrington himself, plus a surprise $10,000 check we couldn’t wait to hand over.
Class of 2026 · Winning idea
Akshara Abaddi was the innagural winner with Lumivo, an app to help students find unclaimed scholarship funds.
2026 WINNER!
Akshara Abbadi
Testimonials
What students are saying about our Young Entrepreneurship program.
Hear directly from the students of our program about what they've learned and achieved.
“I feel much, much more confident. Because at the beginning of the program, I was scared to just come off mute, and now I could present to Kevin Harrington himself!”
Kelvin Petrushev
Class of 2026
“I learned that community input is one of the most valuable parts of creating a product people genuinely connect with.”
Sharleez M.
Class of 2026
“I never saw myself ever being in this position but I’m doing it, it feels amazing that I’m doing something I’ve never done before.”
Dilan K.
Class of 2026
Join the next cohort
Your idea deserves eight weeks.
Free. Virtual. Twenty-five seats per cohort. The next class of young founders starts soon.