LeadX: Leadership Experience Leadership | Postgraduates | Elective | Developed in partnership with the University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship Hyde has always held that leadership begins from within — that before you can lead a team, a community, or a cause, you have to reckon honestly with yourself. LeadX, developed in partnership with the University of Delaware's Horn Entrepreneurship program, builds a structured curriculum around that conviction. The course asks three questions: What kind of person do I want to become? How do I close the gap between who I am and who I am capable of being? And what does it look like to lead others from a place of genuine self-knowledge rather than performance? Students engage these questions through reflection on real experience — their own lives, relationships, and choices — developing the confidence, optimism, resilience, and engagement that leadership actually requires. Maine Youth Leadership Day and the Maine State Leadership Alliance place students in direct conversation with peers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders from across Maine, testing what they've built in the classroom against the real demands of leadership in action. EntreX Lab for Social & Impact Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship | Grades 11–12, Postgraduates | Elective | Developed in partnership with the University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship EntreX Lab™ for Social & Impact Entrepreneurship is Hyde's flagship entrepreneurship course, developed in partnership with the University of Delaware's Horn Entrepreneurship program. EntreX, short for "entrepreneurship experience," is a genuine, hands-on encounter with the entrepreneurial process, oriented from the start toward ventures that create measurable good in the world. Students ground their work in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, using them as a lens for identifying problems worth solving: from clean energy and climate action to quality education, reduced inequalities, and sustainable communities. A core emphasis throughout is the distinction between charity and enterprise — students learn to build ventures that are both mission-driven and financially viable, exploring models like social enterprise, B Corps, and impact investing. The course also integrates an applied AI component in which students learn to deploy these tools purposefully across the entrepreneurial process, from problem discovery and landscape research to stress-testing impact models and pitch preparation. No coding experience is required. Each trimester brings a distinct milestone: fall opens with virtual design sprints, an introduction to the business model canvas with Maine Venture Fund, and an Idea Jam™ at the Roux Institute in Portland; winter shifts to community discovery interviews and mentorship at Union & Co. in Bath; and spring culminates in a formal impact pitch to a panel of social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and community leaders. By the end of the year, every student will have identified a meaningful problem connected to a global challenge, built and tested a venture concept with real community evidence, and developed the confidence to represent themselves — and their mission — in any room.
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