Kickstart the entrepreneurial mindset of your students.
Young people succeed in life when they have the skills & mindset of an entrepreneur.
Give your students the room to innovate and succeed.
Through immersive, real-world learning programs, students build skills, confidence, and community.
Q-Zero trains educators to help launch student ventures.
Quarter Zero is here to help teachers — with all levels of entrepreneurship experience — by providing comprehensive training on how to successfully help students take their startup ideas and turn them into a reality. Sign up to learn more about how Quarter Zero can help you guide your students towards achieving their entrepreneurial dreams!
Power the potential of your students.
We know what it takes — learn to do the same with our upcoming handbook, guides, and toolkits.700+
Alumni from 10 countries and all 50 states84%
"QØ positively changed my personal trajectory"$5M+
Generated by student alumni ventures15+
Cohorts of Incubators and Startup Camps87%
Wrote about QØ on college applications100+
Industry experts and professional advisors
Start a Q-Zero club or program at your school.
Quarter Zero’s curriculum is designed, first and foremost, to build 21st century life skills by helping students adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. We have achieved this with over 700 high schoolers across 15+ cohorts and now we want to help teachers do the same! Sign up if you’re interested in starting an entrepreneurship club or program at your school.
Meet Quarter Zero's educators.
We think they're pretty great, and we're confident you will too.
Martha Rush
Martha, founder and CEO of NeverBore Education Consulting and author of Beat Boredom (Stenhouse, 2018), is a nationally recognized teacher with 25 years of classroom experience. She has worked as a professional curriculum writer since 2011 and a workshop consultant since 2013. She founded NeverBore in 2015 with a mission to provide teachers nationwide with hands-on strategies to overcome boredom and improve student engagement and motivation. She now serves as Chief Educator-in-Residence at Quarter Zero and has compiled the QØ Teen Startup Handbook.
Aarshiya Chaudhry
Aarshiya leads strategy and development for Quarter Zero’s products. Prior to QØ, Aarshiya spent 5 years working with Teach For India as a teacher, program manager, project lead, and curriculum specialist. At TFI, she conceptualized and led a program to develop entrepreneurship skills amongst students from at-risk communities in Delhi. Most recently, she received her MBA from Yale’s School of Management where she focused on design, innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship.
Q-Zero Programs for Educators
The Q-Zero Handbook is what students read. These programs are how the adults around them learn to run it.
Q-Zero Educator Workshop
A live training for teachers, school club advisors, and program administrators who use the Q-Zero Handbook in a classroom, school club, or after-school program. You don’t need to be an entrepreneur to run it. You need to know how the Handbook is built and where students get stuck.
What we cover
How the Handbook is sequenced and why: mindset first, then problems, then customers, then prototypes
Running a customer-interview session with students who have never talked to a stranger on purpose
Prototyping and testing with a small budget and one class period
Coaching the pitch without writing it for them
Using the mentor chapter to bring local business owners into your club
The common ways a club stalls early, and what to do about it
What you leave with
A week-by-week plan for a Q-Zero School Club or classroom unit built on the Handbook
Facilitation scripts for the three hardest sessions: customer interviews, first prototype, first pitch
A rubric that rewards learning over polish
Workshops run live online or in person at your school, sized for a single department or a full district.
Q-Zero Advisory
Ongoing support for schools, districts, and youth programs building entrepreneurship into what they already do. Program design, Handbook implementation, educator coaching, and help setting up a student pitch event or mentor network. Scoped to your program and your calendar, from a one-time planning session to support across a full school year.
Express interest
Tell us about your school or program and whether you’re looking for a Q-Zero Educator Workshop, ongoing Q-Zero Advisory, or both. We’ll follow up to talk through fit, timing, and cost.