Established
2003
Franchise Units
180
Minimum Investment
$50,100
Franchise Fee
$49,900
Total Investment Range
$59,150
Home Based
Yes
Description
Challenge Island is a one-of-a-kind enrichment program at the forefront of S.T.E.A.M. education, combining Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math with modern 21st Century learning principles. The brand’s unique collaborative learning approach is designed to meet the needs of children today while helping develop the critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills needed for the adults of tomorrow.
Background
Established: 2003
Support Training
Financial Assistance Provided: No
Site Selection Assistance: N/A
Lease Negotiation Assistance: N/A
Recruiting Assistance: No
Co-Operative Advertising: No
Training: A Challenge Island New Owner Training takes place monthly in Atlanta. Training takes place over three full days and hands-on support continues during the ramp up period and throughout their time as a Challenge Island franchisee.
Ideal Candidate
Challenge Island is among the world’s leading educational franchises for children. It has a one-of-a-kind approach and personality that makes it a consistent standout from the competition and great fun to operate. Challenge Island is aligned with the latest and greatest in education including STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math), 21st Century Skills, and Cross Curricular Learning. It is also a proven franchise model, an exciting service to deliver, and a rewarding business to own.
Our franchisees focus on promoting their business and scheduling programs, on-site workshops and events. Challenge Island programming is delivered by a staff of part-time instructors with or without the franchise owner on site (although we recommend spending a good bit of time in the trenches training your staff and getting to know the business in a hands on way). A client-base is quickly built as Challenge Island customers keep coming back and referring us to others. Our classes are known to fill in a flash and schools and districts often come knocking at our doors desiring our unique programming. Over 60% of Challenge Island business is repeat business!
Challenge Island franchises provide a wide array of exhilarating and enriching programs to children in schools, homes, camps, libraries, and community centers—wherever kids can be found in their communities. Our programs include classes, in-school field trips, camps, kids-nights out, Family Challenge nights, homeschooling events, and Challenge Island Jr. preschool programming. We even offer corporate team building events. We pride ourselves in providing our franchisees with a steady flow of action-packed programming that easy and profitable to deliver and wildy popular.
The comprehensive and cutting edge educational benefits of Challenge Island are truly needed by every child, therefore ownership offers you a unique opportunity to build a successful business while contributing to the goal of helping ensure the future of our children and our communities. Teachers, parents, school administrators, businesses and the government have vested interests in providing kids with collaborative learning experiences in STEAM and 21st Century Skills. Once word gets out that you’ve opened your doors, the welcome mat will be rolled out for Challenge Island and you as an owner. We will teach you how to embrace and facilitate that incredibly rewarding process.