Middle School Elective · Grades 7–8

Life Skills with AI Entrepreneurship

Three weeks of your own work got you here. Today the Agency gets its teams — and its first real problems.

Week 04 · Pod Day · Leg 1 · Join the Agency

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Because of Your Faith

It Will Happen.

With Faith Nothing is Impossible

Leg 1 · Join the Agency · Businesses Exist to Serve

Week 04 — Pod Day.

We make: the Pod Charter + your top 3 problems.

Today · the reveal Five seats · everyone holds one Badge · Problem Detective

"The body is not made up of one part but of many.The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I don't need you!'"

1 Corinthians 12:14, 21 · Week 04

Scripture & Stand-up · 5 min

The verse opens the hour. Takeaways: say ONE of your three from last week. Then: "Today the Agency gets its teams."

Micro-lesson · 1 of 3 · The Reveal

You didn't pick your team. Pros rarely do.

The reveal. Here are your pods. "You get hired onto a team — and then you make it great."

The name. Your name ideas from homework go on the table. The pod picks one or mixes two. If you don't name it, it won't live.

The five seats. Account · Strategy · Creative · Operations · Technologist. Everyone holds one today. Seats rotate every leg — you'll hold all five this year. No seat is the boss of another.

Micro-lesson · 2 of 3 · The Charter

Values are a filter, not a poster.

Four parts: your name · your seats · three team agreements · one mission line + 2 or 3 values.

Real values cost something. "Be nice" costs nothing. "We tell the customer the truth even when it's awkward" — that one will cost you. Pick at least one like that.

The mission line: who this pod wants to serve, and how. One sentence. Businesses exist to serve — you learned that last week.

RememberLast week: "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve." Your charter is where that turns from words into a promise.

Micro-lesson · 3 of 3 · The Pitch Ritual

Your best problem comes to the table.

The pitch: 60 seconds. The frustration · who has it · when you last saw it happen. Everyone pitches at least one problem from their sketchbook.

The good-problem test: Real? people actually have it · Often? it happens a lot · Pod-sized? you can actually reach those people.

Top 3 survive. Not one. Next leg you'll meet the real people behind these — and they decide which problem wins.

The line that mattersThe test decides — not the loudest voice, not your best friend. If it's real, the test will show it.

Build Sprint · Charter, Then Pitches

30:00

First 12 min — the charter: name · five seats · three agreements · mission + values
Then — pitches: everyone pitches, 60 seconds each
Score each one — real · often · pod-sized
Circle your top 3 — the real people decide the winner next leg

Finished early? Sketch a pod logo or invent a hand signal — identity is never wasted

Share-out · 10 min

The Agency, introduced.

The protocolEach pod introduces itself

Your name · who holds which seat · ONE value · your top 3 problems. The class gives one cheer, one sharpen.

The badgeProblem Detective — earned

Charter signed + top 3 chosen = Leg 1 complete. Photograph the charter into your Portfolio of Proof.

Leg 1 · Complete

The Agency is real now.

Pods live and named. Five seats filled. Three real problems per pod. Next: Leg 2 — Listen & Decide. You go meet the person who actually has the problem. At home: keep the sketchbook going — bring your top 3 back next week.

Own It — I am the proof.