To help educate our youth about starting their own business, we now offer some amazing entrepreneurial curriculum available for middle school and high school teachers to implement in their classrooms.

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“Out of the Box” Entrepreneurship Program

15 – 1- hour curriculum sessions in the classroom

• Students can work individually or in 2-3 person teams

• Students learn about personal strengths and challenges

• Students create a consumer product to sell (but if student has a service idea, that is okay too)

• Utilize loans for inventory, final products and materials

• Opportunity to make real money by selling products at their YEC event

• Students research the target market and pricing of competitor’s products

• Students learn about material costs, labor costs, calculate unit costs, determine product price, calculate potential revenue and potential profit

• Create advertising plan and learn about competitive advantage

• After they pay sales tax and loan repayment, then profit sharing occurs

Practical lessons students will learn:      

                Teamwork

                Idea to Production to Sales

                Marketing

                Basic Financials/Costs/Pricing/Profit Calculation

                Sales Pitch Presentation

                Professionalism

                Customer Service

                Making Change

                Tracking Purchases and Sales

                Enhanced Competitiveness at Local and State YEC Events

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If interested in offering this to your students, please contact us. 

Students from Pike Valley schools in Scandia, Kansas