According to Engineering For Kids, what is an 'Outside Program'?
Engineering_For_Kids Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You may directly solicit participants from, and conduct Programs in, areas located outside the Territory if those participants and/or Programs are not located in an Assigned Area (an "Open Area") and the following conditions are met. You may only solicit participants from, and conduct Programs in, Open Areas located within 25 miles of your Territory. If you are conducting a Program in an Open Area (an "Outside Program") and that area later becomes an Assigned Area, then you must immediately give control of the Outside Program to the Engineering For Kids Business franchisee for that Assigned Area. Once an Open Area becomes an Assigned Area, you may no longer directly solicit participants from, or conduct any Programs in, the Assigned Area.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 36–41)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Engineering For Kids' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, an 'Outside Program' refers to conducting programs in areas located outside of a franchisee's assigned territory, specifically in what Engineering For Kids defines as an "Open Area". An Open Area is any area not already assigned to another Engineering For Kids franchisee.
For a franchisee to conduct programs in these Open Areas, they must be within 25 miles of their assigned territory. However, this is contingent on the area remaining unassigned. Should the Open Area later be assigned to a new franchisee, the original franchisee must immediately relinquish control of the Outside Program to the new franchisee assigned to that area.
This policy ensures that Engineering For Kids franchisees can expand their reach to unassigned areas under specific conditions, while also protecting the territorial rights of other franchisees as the Engineering For Kids system grows. Once an open area becomes an assigned area, the franchisee can no longer solicit participants or conduct programs in the newly assigned area.