Today we mourn the loss of our board member Jon Strong. We wish to thank his family for their generosity in sharing Jon’s personal time with us. Jon truly made a positive difference to us and throughout our community. We mourn the loss of this good man with them and with our community.
Our course activities include videos, puzzles, team challenges, interviews with local business owners - combined with building a real world business plan and business website. All activities are carefully chosen to be age appropriate and promote student success. Kids Biz Club Course Gets Alderwood Students Seal of Approval
Kids Biz Club is an 8-week 16 session course created by SAVENW.org to help local Fifth Graders learn how to start their own business. Topics include creating a business budget, a business plan and a business website.
This Spring, we had the opportunity to provide this course to students in an After-School Program at Alderwood Elementary School in Bellingham, WA. Each student was provided with a laptop to use during the course, a USB drive to save their work and a course notebook. Then their work began. The first lessons were about business planning concepts: How to choose a business, how to estimate costs, how to set pricing, the difference between a service, a product or a knowledge-based business.
Then we took a day to learn from local business manager, John “Westy” Westerfield, of Yeager’s Sporting Goods. The class explored coming to a net profit, and the differences between owners, managers, and employees. We wish to thank Westy for sharing his knowledge with the class and will be sure to say “Hi,” next time we are in his store.
With a business plan forming we moved on to the technical aspects of website design, beginning with the basics of file management.
While the course has very challenging goals, every student was able to finish their own business website – created from scratch using HTML and CSS. Each student customized their website with unique images, font colors and background colors.
Read more: Kids Biz Club Course Gets Alderwood Students Seal of Approval
