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Young entrepreneurs Annaka Roscoe, Justin Lenehan, Maggie Abbott and Molly Bowes.
Annaka Roscoe stands with her homemade picture frames, Justin Lenehan poses with his treasure boxes, Maggie Abbott holds her creation of flip flop hooks and Molly Bowes presents her original idea of a Swail.
These are a few of the creative products that the youngsters in Grades 3 to 5 came up with during a March Break camp for young entrepreneurs run by Enterprise Carleton.
Molly Bowes was one of the many budding future business owners at the Woodstock Farm Market on Friday morning. She was attempting to sell her original idea, called a Swail to potential customers.
“A Swail is a stuffed animal that I made up. I just thought of the idea one day and thought it was a good one,” said Bowes.
From stuffed animals to dog treats that even humans can eat, these kids thought of it all.
Young entrepreneur Madie Parker
Nine-year-old Madie Parker came up with the idea of dog treats for dogs of all sizes, and if a customer wanted, they could take the hand-painted box the treats came in with them … for a price of course.
“I got a dog treat cookbook and thought that maybe not very many people would know how to make dog treats, so I decided to try it out, ” said Parker. “And even people can eat them because I made them with all natural ingredients.”
Katie Goodine is the youth officer for Enterprise Carleton and couldn’t help but have a smile on her face as she watched the youngsters sell their products to customers.
This is the second time that Goodine has been involved in this type of camp such as this and says she would love to continue with programs such as this.
“It’s been a great week with lots of hard work and fun and it makes it all worth while when the kids come here today and put what they learned into practice,” she said.
Goodine partnered with Joanne Boone, the community co-ordinator for Southern Carleton Elementary School and together they made the camp a great learning experience for the kids.
“The kids learn a lot about business skills like how to run their own business, know how to write a business plan. They met with a loan officer, and took out loans in order to start up their businesses and also learned about profit and loss and how to deal with customers,” said Boone. “Something like this gives them good people skills and gives them a spot to have a creativity outlet, which is huge.”
Young entrepreneur Lukas Calhoun
Lukas Calhoun is the proud creator of what he deems a “one of a kind dragster.”
“I got the model from a kit and the dragsters can even move on their own, it’s a special feature,” said Calhoun.
Not only did Calhoun says he was having fun he really enjoyed selling his product to customers.
“It’s a great time,” he said.
Goodine hopes that when the camp is all said and done, that the kids will be able to take some of the skills that they learned and hang onto them for life.
“I’m hoping that the entrepreneurial experience sticks with them and they can take that away with them,” she said.
She explained that a lot of the kids had the experience of making their own products before and gave the example of one girl who made jewelry before and decided to stick with that and sell her jewelry as a product.
“I hope that now that they realize how easy it is to make their own products, they’ll be able to take that away with them,” said Goodine.
Both Goodine and Boone agree that while the week with the kids has been exhausting, it was all worth it to see them come out on top of the business world and showcase their talents.
Source: Bugle Observer
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