CTC Youth Entrepreneurship Students’ Market Day On NBC5
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CTC Entrepreneurship students had a real life experience of what it’s like to run a business, including the ups and downs of how to manage them. The students had two days in school to open and run a business on campus. They had to plan what they would sell, what it would cost, how to market it, get loans, and any profit they made, the students got to keep.
The students researched what their peers might want to buy. They presented their plans and were granted loans of up to $200 from a nonprofit group to help the kids fund their business and plan for success. The students put up fliers around the school which marketed their business to other students. Everything came with a cost, and if they were lucky they could balance the numbers just right and walk away with a profit.
Their teacher said once the students started to think in a business mindset they kept coming up with bigger plans to succeed.
The program is run through the nonprofit Youth Entrepreneurs. They put up the money for the loans and they’re operating this same program at several school districts across North Texas, including Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas ISDs.
