Coming May 20: Hudson's version of The Apprentice
Come rain or shine, the Hudson High School Business Club will be holding its Apprentice Challenge on Friday, May 20. Students from several Hudson High School clubs will be competing to sell the most cupcakes from Main Street Cupcakes. The challenge will take place from 3:30p.m. until 6:30 p.m.
The GCAT (Environmental Club) will be on one end of the small Green at First and Main. The Girls' Rugby Team will be on the other end. The German Club will set up in the Jo-Ann Fabrics plaza, while the high school student government organization will be on the Western Reserve Academy Campus. The Random Acts of Kindness Club will be outside the Hudson Library & Historical Society, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes will be near the gazebo on the main Green.
Teacher and Business Club Advisor Betty Banks-Burke will not be saying "You're fired" in Donald Trump-fashion at the end of the competition. Rather, the club that receives the most money from sales – minus expenses – will receive 25 percent of the net sales for their club's budget. Fifty percent of the total proceeds will go the winning club's charity of choice, and 25 percent will go to the HHS Business Club for sponsoring the event.
East Woods trade show June 7
Fifth graders from East Woods Elementary will showcase their wares from 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. on June 7 at the school's Young Entrepreneur Trade Show. The exhibit culminates months of study and work. The students – in groups or individually – design a business around a product or service they think fills a customer need. The product or service must be completely original or a significant and unique change/improvement to something that already exists. They come up with a slogan or motto, plan a marketing strategy, and prepare a budget. In 2010, teachers Marie Rourke and John Brockway won a prestigious national award for excellence in free enterprise education for the project.
Fundraising webinar scheduled
Burton D. Morgan Foundation President Deborah Hoover will conduct a one-hour webinar on resource development June 15. Dollars and Sense: Raising Funds for Entrepreneurship Education will start at 4 p.m. and is one of the regular webinars conducted by the Columbus-based Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education (CEE). To register for the free web-based discussion, go to http://www.entre-ed.org.
Site offers insight into business
A look into the life of a successful teen Web entrepreneur, tips for youthful job seekers, and stories about teens and green awareness are available from a site operated by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Knowledge@Wharton High School, KWHS for short, is an online journal for students interested in finding out more about the world of business. The site is accessible at http://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu
Learning is the BEST medicine
On April 2, more than 100 middle and high school students participated in the BEST Medicine Science and Engineering Fair in Akron, hosted by the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron. The fair was organized by the Institute to stimulate interest among young people to become physician scientists or biomedical engineers and also to help educators motivate their students to be interested in science. The winners were: Arian Daneshvar and Alex Russell - Firestone High School (first place); Abigail Freitag and Louis Ray - Firestone High School (second place); Donghan Kim and Kyunghan Kim - Hudson Middle School (third place).