Surge Start-Up Academy 2025

This badge recognises completion of NLCS SURGE, an intensive 9-week entrepreneurship academy developing essential business skills applicable across all career paths. Recipients demonstrated mastery of entrepreneurial capabilities through industry-led workshops with partners including Century Tech, Pinterest, and Oliver Wyman. The programme's 3 Es framework—Empower, Equip, Engage—developed practical skills in business model development, market analysis, strategic thinking, pitching, and leadership. Badge holders have cultivated an entrepreneurial mindset characterised by resilience, creativity, and adaptability. This certification represents commitment to developing transferable skills including problem-solving, communication, and innovation that prepare young women to shape their professional futures.

Issuer	North London Collegiate School
Issued On	1764331200
Expires	1890561600

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