The DUT Midlands Entrepreneurship & Student Desk held an Entrepreneurship Business Start-Up Boot camp at Hella Hella Adventure Centre (Richmond). The Entrepreneurship Boot Camp was the first of its kind at the Durban University of Technology (DUT).
The Boot Camp was divided into two sessions. The first session was on the 16th -17th of May 2019 (Thursday – Friday) with The DUT Midlands Students from the Department of Public Management. The second session was on the 20th -21st of May 2019 (Monday –Tuesday) with students from the Department of Public Management (Supply Chain), DUT Durban.

The main objective of the Entrepreneurship boot camp was to teach entrepreneurship in a fun, impactful, engaging and practical manner that is slightly different from the traditional method of teaching and learning. “I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Remember, I Do and I Understand”. Entrepreneurship is all about being practical.
The two groups on their first day played a variety of educational entrepreneurial and teambuilding games. Entrepreneurial games included the Levels of Start-Up, Spaghetti & Marshmallow Tower Challenge and Navquard. These games taught students quite a number of imperative things about entrepreneurship. Consistency, competitiveness, drawing a business plan, feasibility study, idea generation, creative thinking and other innumerable things, are part of what the students gained from the games.

Subsequently, they played teambuilding games namely the foefie slide, hiking, soccer and wall climbing. However, the evening was all about the presentations based on an on a 6-week business start-up training that was facilitated by the DUT Midlands Entrepreneurship Centre.
The boot camp was a lifetime experience to the DUT Public management students, as they were exposed to a wide spectrum of information about entrepreneurship. This boot camp was the very first one for the DUT Midlands Entrepreneurship Centre, however, it was phenomenally executed.
Sindisiwe Ndlovu