Young Entrepreneurs Launch T-Shirt Business In Middle School
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Eighth-graders at Adm. Richard E. Byrd Middle School in Winchester, Virginia have created a T-shirt business for their Future Business Leaders of America club.
“We worked as a class to design the shirt,” said student Damian Berdecia. “It was fun.”
The middle school students received some guidance from three Sherando High School students who have been visiting Byrd once a week recently.
Their visits were assignments for the high school’s Distributive Education Clubs of America.
On Wednesday, the middle and high school students worked together to distribute the nearly 20 T-shirts that had been ordered by Byrd students.
“I didn’t expect them to sell that many,” said Sherando junior Maegan Songer, 16, who helped to collect money and hand out shirts during the middle school’s lunch periods.
The T-shirts, which sold for $12 each, proved popular with outgoing eighth-graders who will leave Byrd in the spring and prepare to attend high school.
June 5th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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