Students suggested reusing or reselling a variety of products they made, from butterfly feeders to cards, artwork, vintage clothing, plants, notebooks, and crocheted animals. Masu.
Nine-year-old Anders Yee will be selling cookies, cupcakes and lemonade today at Bay Center’s Kidbait Youth Entrepreneur Market.
The third-year student hopes to raise $4,000, which he plans to donate to the Victoria Hospital Foundation to fund the purchase of medical equipment in honor of his father, who passed away from a brain aneurysm in the summer of 2022. To do that was to save his life. ”
This isn’t the first time Anders has raised money for the foundation. He has donated more than $3,000 to the hospital foundation from donations and lemonade sales from his driveway in Saanich. One of his anonymous donors donated his $1,000.
“He was always very dedicated. It came naturally to him,” said his mother, Susannah Yee.
Anders said: “I’m really excited about this event. He’s been planning it since Christmas.”
He said making the cookies was “a lot of work” but he enjoyed doing it. “I’m helping others.”
He will be selling cookies and lemonade glasses for $2 each and cupcakes for $3 each from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bay Center. The cookie contains oatmeal, sugar, chocolate chips, coconut meringue, and peanut butter. His own favorite is brown sugar oatmeal.
Kidovate is offered through UVic’s Gustavson School of Business. It focuses on middle school and high school students and teaches participants the basics of becoming an entrepreneur through a step-by-step, graphic novel-style workbook that includes a section on corporate social responsibility.
Located on Center Court and the Center’s first through third floors, students collect everything from butterfly feeders to cards, artwork, vintage clothing, plants, notebooks, and crocheted animals. Students are encouraged, but not required, to consider donating to Goodwill.
Tania Chavez, deputy principal and learning support teacher at Victoria School for Ideal Education, is bringing about 12 students to the youth market, the school’s largest group to date. The school participates every year, and students also volunteer.
She said students who participate, some of whom participate more than once, learn to speak to the public and share their interests in something they are passionate about.
They learn math as they consider the financial aspects of a project, from reimbursing parents for materials to pricing to calculating the amount donated to charity.
“That’s what all my parents say to me.” [the students] I’m working hard at home,” Chavez said. “I’m always amazed at how far they’ve come and how much they’ve done. It all depends on them.” A boy who lives on a farm comes to the farm with root vegetables to sell. Masu. There are also shops selling jewelry, stickers, rock art, baking bags, and hand-sewn bags.
UVic entrepreneurship professors Block and Claudia Smith will once again host Kidbait Market on behalf of the Gustafson School of Business.
Brock-Smith said this could be the largest youth market in the country. It was so popular that this year they had to turn away some applicants.
He believes the youth market is becoming more popular because “everything is so expensive these days.” Recent statistics show that more than 35 percent of North American adults have some kind of side job, and this number is expected to grow rapidly. ”
Kids are struggling with money, and Kidbate is a way for middle school and high school students to start or grow a side hustle to make money, Smith said.
“We encourage repeat participation, as each year participants apply what they have learned to further success. This builds confidence in being an entrepreneur.”
Creating more entrepreneurs means planting the seed earlier that young people should think about and aspire to becoming an entrepreneur, Smith said. He hopes returning participants will learn the important skills needed to be successful entrepreneurs.
For more information about Kidovate, visit kidovate.ca.
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