High school project idea · Sports & Performance
Look beyond the scoreboard to understand how a sports organization earns, spends, grows, and serves its community.
Analyze the operating and revenue model of a team, league, facility, or sports organization using credible public evidence and reasoned estimates.
Why this project matters
Analyze the operating and revenue model of a team, league, facility, or sports organization using credible public evidence and reasoned estimates. This project feels different from a school assignment because the student serves students, fans, or aspiring sports-business professionals, creates something visible, tests it honestly, responds to feedback, and explains the decisions behind the final result.
What you will create
Use these deliverables as milestones for Find the Business Behind the Team. Adapt the details to your interests, available time, and real-world opportunities.
Research tickets, media, sponsorship, merchandise, concessions, facilities, labor, community programs, competitive performance, regulation, and risk. Document the needs, constraints, credible sources, and perspectives of students, fans, or aspiring sports-business professionals.
Turn the evidence into a focused plan for the sports organization business teardown, including success criteria, ethical boundaries, scope, and a realistic path to completion.
Create the first complete version of the sports organization business teardown. Include an organization map, revenue and cost model, fan and partner analysis, benchmark comparison, risk scenarios, strategic options, and executive brief.
present the teardown to informed sports fans or business reviewers and test whether each estimate and strategic claim is traceable Record what happened, what failed, what users or reviewers said, and which changes you made.
Publish the final sports organization business teardown with a portfolio-ready case study showing the challenge, evidence, process, revisions, results, limits, and next version.
Make the work stronger
For Find the Business Behind the Team, use these checkpoints to protect the quality of the work without turning the project into a performance for admissions.
Skills you can build
College application value
Can demonstrate initiative, curiosity, reflection, and growth through the student’s choices, response to setbacks, work with students, fans, or aspiring sports-business professionals, and development of Sports Business, Revenue Analysis, and Strategic Research.
The goal of Find the Business Behind the Team is not to manufacture an impressive activity. Do real work, keep evidence of the process, and reflect honestly on what changed.
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Find the Business Behind the Team is an original Compass educational starting point designed around real work, visible evidence, feedback, and reflection. It is not an admissions guarantee.