Build a project that strengthens your portfolio and shows universities what you can do, not just what you can study. Ten weeks with a qualified mentor, from idea to launch.
College applications are full of grades and predicted grades. What often makes a real difference is proof that a student can take an idea of their own, test it with real people, improve it, and stand up and defend it. The Signature Project is ten weeks of exactly that, with a mentor beside you.
You choose the idea: a product, a service, a campaign or a social enterprise. Over ten weeks you frame the problem, design and build a first version, put it in front of real users, refine it from what they tell you, and pitch the result at a showcase. Every step is documented, so at the end you hold a portfolio case study and a pitch you can talk about in any interview.
Separate from CURIOO Campus. Campus is what schools buy for their teachers. The Signature Project is yours: you enrol as an individual, work online in a small cohort, and keep everything you make.
Each week has one live online session with your mentor and cohort, independent work on your project between sessions, and a checkpoint every fortnight so you always know where you stand. Expect around four hours a week in total.
The whole project documented: the problem, your research, the versions you built, what users told you, what you changed and what you learned. Written and designed so it can form part of an application or be shared with an interviewer.
A recorded pitch to a live audience, with questions and answers, and a CURIOO certificate of completion. The thing you can point to when someone asks what you have actually done.
Personal statements and interviews reward specifics. Ten weeks of decisions, setbacks and evidence give you more to say than any summer course, and it is all true.
Every cohort is led by a qualified CURIOO mentor who has taught entrepreneurship through projects with real students. Cohorts are kept small so your mentor knows your project, not just your name. Sessions are live and online; between them, your mentor reviews your checkpoints and replies within the week.
Places are open to any student aged 14–17, at one published price. Reserve a place below and we will confirm your cohort dates and send the enrolment details by email.
No. Many students arrive with a problem they have noticed rather than a solution, and some arrive with neither. Week one is designed to find and shape an idea worth ten weeks of your time.
One session a week, online, at a fixed time for your cohort. Cohorts are grouped by time zone where possible; you will be told the session time before you confirm your place.
No. Campus is the curriculum schools buy for their teachers. The Signature Project uses the same ten-week method and the same standard of assessment, but you enrol as an individual, work with a CURIOO mentor rather than your school, and keep the portfolio yourself.
Some don’t, and that is often the best case study. You are assessed on the quality of your thinking, your evidence and your response to what you learned, not on whether the idea made money.
Yes. Every student who completes the ten weeks and presents at the showcase receives a CURIOO certificate of completion. The portfolio case study and the recorded pitch are the substance you can include in an application; the certificate confirms you completed the programme.
Reserve a place first; no payment is taken. Once your cohort is confirmed, a parent or guardian completes enrolment by card: $1,680 in full, or three instalments of $560. Students who have attended a CURIOOkids Studio, and siblings of enrolled students, receive 15% off. Places are non-refundable once your cohort is confirmed, so please check the session time and dates before you complete enrolment.