(Guest post by: Greyson, Meghan, and Andrew
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And we need your help!
For the past month our class has been learning something very special: how to start and run our own businesses. Grade 6 classes from our school are being sponsored the Coastal Community Credit Union to take part in The Young Entrepreneur Program
We have been learning all about the different types of businesses. There are retail, manufacturing, and service businesses.
When you own a retail business you sell products that are designed and produced by other businesses. For example WalMart is a retail business. Owning a services business means you do things for people. For example, when you go to the dentist, they are supplying a service to you, not selling tooth brushes like a retail business or manufacturing tooth paste like a manufacturing business. But when you own a manufacturing business (like us) you produce a product and sell it. For example, Duracell produces batteries and sells them to retailer like SuperStore. In our case, we are selling our products ourselves!
Another thing we learned about is how to conduct a market research survey. We put our questions into Google Forms and embedded them on our blogs. We hope they will tell us about what our customers want so we can improve our products. Our fair is on Friday, February 11th–just a week away.
So, to help us out, please visit our surveys!
- Keenan’s Super Sock Monkeys
- Laina’s Superbly Scented Sachets
- Andrew’s Rockin’ Radical Rocks
- Arwen’s Magnificent Magnetic Frames
- Liam’s Inukshuks
- Matt’s Nutty Wild Bird Feeders
- Kendra’s Perfect Pencil Holders
- Matthew’s Superior Stress Balls
- Jordan’s Jumping Jacob’s Ladders
- Darion’s Wonderful Wonder Warmers
- Meghan’s Hand-Spring Original Soap Designs
- Charlie’s S.P.C.A.ngels
- Noah’s YGWYPF (You Get What You Pay For Boxes)
- Orion’s Magnetic Mobiles
- Reid’s Right Hand Rings
- Max’s Fantastic Fizzy Bath Bombs
- Jane’s Beautiful Beaded Butterflies
- Jared’s Turtle Pocket Pals
- Molly’s Pop Art Recycled Necklaces
- Amber’s Magnificent Marbled Magnets
- Jack’s Fantastic Flubber
- Zach’s Hive Happy Honey Healthy Candles
- Daniel’s Magnificent Magnet Creatures
- Greyson’s Fast and Furious T-Wheeler
Have you ever run a business of your own? Did you have a service business or make a product to sell? What did you learn from the experience? And finally, do you have any advice for us? Thanks for taking the time to do our surveys–wish us luck!
Dear Future Entrepreneurs,
These sound like such wonderful business ideas! Hopefully you can take what you learn from this and apply it in the future. Maybe you’ll even be able to open the business that you designed at some point in the future! I’m so glad I got to take part in some of your surveys. I think it’s amazing that you got to use Google Forms to create those! Good luck!
Mr. Avery
Plympton, Massachusetts
Mr. Avery’s Class Blog
You are right, Mr. Avery, Google Forms (and all the Google ships at sea) are pretty versatile tools. We really appreciate your encouragement and thank you for taking the time to fill out our surveys!
Are the surveys just to collect information or is it an actual order form? I was scared to fill them in thinking I might owe a lot of money by the time I was done?
Love the idea and will encourage my grade 6 class to check it out!
Mrs. Quirk in Ottawa
Just information gathering, Mrs Quirk! I must admit I did spend a lot of money at the fair!
I teach 4th grade and we have run a popcorn business before to teacher supply and demand and consumers and producers. You have taken this concept so much further with your surveys. I am going to have my students in my classroom take some of your surveys. Good luck on a awesome project. Would love to know more about how you implemented this project.
http://mrsallardycesawesomeblog.wordpress.com/
This is very nice.
Thanks, Haily!
“For the past month our class has been learning something very special: how to start and run our own businesses. Grade 6 classes from our school are being sponsored the Coastal Community Credit Union to take part in The Young Entrepreneur Program”
That’s absolutely wonderful. I wish more schools took the time to teach students how to be thinkers and leaders. Teaching students at an earlier age how to become a business owner helps to show them there is more than just being an average “burger flipper”.
I wish that I had that opportunity as a student. I’ve been working to build an online business for mobile marketing agencies (seen there) and its been hard. It’s my first venture that’s only about 8 years late
Dear Ms.Smith
Sounds like you and your class had a great time with The Young Entrepreneur Fair. I can’t wait until we get to try entrepreneuing.
See you tomorrow!
-Sophie
Get ready, Sophie, because we will be doing the same thing in February!