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2018-2019 Young Entrepreneurs Challenge
Meeting Dates
Young Entrepreneur
Meeting Summary
Meeting Summary
What is The Young Entrepreneurs
Challenge?
This opportunity is provided through McMurray Student leadership.
In this challenge, students will create a small business, design a unique product(s), produce, and sell that product(s) at the McMurray Arts Festival and Young Entrepreneurs Fair. A team of teachers will provide students with an instructional packet and support to help guide them through this process.Students will also be expected to do the following:
Free enterprise: Some companies may choose to make and sell the same or similar products. This is a free enterprise system and students will be encouraged to create unique sales strategies to promote their product.
The Entrepreneurs Fair will be held TBA at McMurray Elementary Auxiliary Gym during the McMurray Arts Festival.
Each student company will have the opportunity to set up a booth at the event. They will only be permitted to sell their product from 5:00 pm–7:00 pm. Students are not required to be open for business the entire time, however the more hours they are open the higher potential they have for sales.
Booth set up is from 3:30-4:30 this year. The high school TV production team will be around to interview each young entrepreneur at their booth between 4:30 and 5:00 pm.
In this challenge, students will create a small business, design a unique product(s), produce, and sell that product(s) at the McMurray Arts Festival and Young Entrepreneurs Fair. A team of teachers will provide students with an instructional packet and support to help guide them through this process.Students will also be expected to do the following:
- Approach a friend or family member to invest in their company (seed money).
- Approach a teacher to act as an adviser for their company throughout the school year. They will meet with this adviser twice a month to update them on their progress and discuss any challenges they may be experiencing.
- Create their product at home.
- Choose a charity to donate the proceeds of the sale of their product.
- Set up a company booth at the McMurray Arts Festival and Young Entrepreneurs Fair to sell their product.
Free enterprise: Some companies may choose to make and sell the same or similar products. This is a free enterprise system and students will be encouraged to create unique sales strategies to promote their product.
The Entrepreneurs Fair will be held TBA at McMurray Elementary Auxiliary Gym during the McMurray Arts Festival.
Each student company will have the opportunity to set up a booth at the event. They will only be permitted to sell their product from 5:00 pm–7:00 pm. Students are not required to be open for business the entire time, however the more hours they are open the higher potential they have for sales.
Booth set up is from 3:30-4:30 this year. The high school TV production team will be around to interview each young entrepreneur at their booth between 4:30 and 5:00 pm.
What is The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge?
This opportunity is provided through McMurray Student leadership. In this challenge, students will create a small business, design a unique product(s), produce, and sell that product(s) at the McMurray Arts Festival and Young Entrepreneurs Fair. A team of teachers will provide students with an instructional packet and support to help guide them through this process.
Student meetings will be held at 8:15 am in room 110.
TBA
The McMurray Arts Festival will be on TBA
Questions?
Pam Harrison [email protected]
Kelly Borra [email protected]