ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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.
“Out of the Box” Entrepreneurship Program
15 – 1- hour curriculum sessions in the classroom
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Students can work individually or in 2-3 person teams
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Students learn about personal strengths and challenges
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Students create a consumer product to sell (but if student has a service idea, that is okay too)
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Utilize loans for inventory, final products and materials
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Opportunity to make real money by selling products at their YEC event
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Students research the target market and pricing of competitor’s products
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Students learn about material costs, labor costs, calculate unit costs, determine product price, calculate potential revenue and potential profit
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Create advertising plan and learn about competitive advantage
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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
If interested in offering this to your students, please contact us.

Students from Pike Valley schools in Scandia, Kansas