english black belt one spark presentation
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English Black Belt One Spark
English Black Belt is a local 1st coast company on a mission to make Learning English fun
Who we are…
The Concept
Immersive 3D Game
Formal ESL Curriculum
Reward Zone
English Black Belt has created a custom online world designed to help subscribers learn English. As they complete missions in the online world they are allowed to journey to the Outpost, our integrated and customized Minecraft server.
The Curriculum
The English Black Belt curriculum contains 2000 words. Students are tested on their skills with listening, reading, spelling and speaking. Their pronunciation is graded in real time in our game and on the mobile app.
The 3D Game
Players will help the Black Belt Villagers by saying magic spells to battle strange creatures that are mysteriously arriving in their town. They must say the spells correctly to progress in the game.
Minecraft
We have integrated our 3D world with a customized Minecraft server. Players will move between the 3D world and Minecraft as they play the game.
Additional funds to complete the 3D portion of the game. This is needed to pay staff, develop the 3D models and complete the Java coding.
Outside investment
Outside expertise to assist with the development of a marketing plan
What we need….
Our team of founders has an international background and combined experience with gamingand technology. Spending time overseas, and wanting our kids to speak proper English, we realized that there were not any systems to teach kids that were fun. So we created a fun to play game that leverages technology to provide real time feedback on speaking skills.
Why English Black Belt…
Feature Mingoville 3d Avatar School English Town English Blackbelt
Standard Gaming Experience
Yes No Yes Yes
*3d Gaming Experience No Yes No Yes
Live Video Training No No No Yes
Live Audio Training No Yes Yes Yes
Parent Friendly No No No Yes
Progress Indicators No No Yes Yes
Fun Factor *** ***** ** *****
**Cost Standard Content: 90 n/a 690 599
**Cost Premium Content n/a 600/hour 1290 3995/6 hours
Notable… Sing-a-long gamesEasy to playVery Cheap
Charge HourlyTargeting 100K subscribers
Recently won 5M contract with Brazil
Only company to embed live English speakers via video
*http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/83CD0001-CA91-4741-B6D3-522089FCB77C#!83CD0001-CA91-4741-B6D3-522089FCB77C** All prices in Thai Baht – exchange rate roughly 30 baht/1USD
Competitive Analysis – Web Based
The Global Market
The Asian Market
Notable Facts Concerning Thailand…
Digital English language learning in Thailand, Vietnam & Malaysia is expected to grow by over 40% over the next 3 years
Thailand began distributing tablets to P1 (1st graders) in 2012 and plans to continue delivering them to new 1st graders each year moving forward
Thailand launched an “English Speaking Year” project in 2012 with the goal of teaching 14M students in 34K state schools at all levels of the educational system
Public School Students Private School Students International School Students
Anuban 1,700,000 22,100 5610
Prathom 5,100,000 66,300 16,830
Matthayom 2,800,000 36,400 9240
Total Students: 9,600,000 124,800 31,680
English Black Belt’s 2014 goals:
• 1200 combined subscriptions or 1% of the students in private schools aged 5-14
• Development of an ESL based virtual classroom standard
• Integration of the English Black Belt curriculum and virtual world with selected private schools
Anuban (Pre-K through Kindergarten) 1,780,074
Prathom (Grades 1-6 5,138,475
Matthayom (Grades 7-9) 2,792,286
Upper Matthayom (Grades 10-12) 2,003,534
Undergraduate Degree and below 2,093,545
Graduate Degree 190,414
The Thai Market
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