Generation E Showcase - Bright side 7

Next we head to Battle Creek, where more than 200 students will present their businesses at the Generation E Institute student business showcase. We start out teaching young people how to dream, and asking them what would they love to do, what do they like to do, where do they feel they have a talent, where do they feel they have an ability. We're L and N's Hair Accessories. We came up with the idea because we live in a small community and there's not really big fashion stores around it, so we decided to start selling hair accessories. And we make all of them by ourselves. We YouTubed and Googled how to make different types of bows, like cheer bows and stuff. This is our 7th annual Generation E student business showcase. There are 170 businesses here today. There's 235, I believe, students because some of them are sole-proprietor and some are partnership businesses. The name of my business is called Thirsty's. It's a business that we created for our marketing class. My business is a partnership. We basically sell our lemonade at sporting events at Berrian Springs High School. It's something really cool because there's not many concession stands in Berrien Springs. There's some, but they're not always open and on hot days, when it's really hot, people usually take some nice lemonade. My teacher taught me. She went through the steps with me about the business plan, about how to develop my business and find something that I really care about. And it'll really help me develop more in my learning as well as different money management and stuff like that. So Generation E is such a great program to go through if it's offered. And a Generation E program is either in a school or it's a community organization. Any program where there's a certified educator or facilitator who uses the Generation E curriculum. They write that business plan. They do all their market research and they end up with an operational business. We are basically a matching service for humans and animals. We make... we find your animal friend for life. Well, my dad is a veterinarian, so I figured that might as well follow something in the family business, if you will. We have one in Battle Creek who's been in business for seven years and employs thirteen other people. Last year or the year before, I can't remember, we had an organic goat's milk business come and they brought the goat, so we had the goat here. And the young man sold shares of his goat. And he's turned around and bought more goats, and it's now become a family business. I think it just brings happiness to everyone, having a cupcake. But I really enjoy baking, too. It's one of my favorite things to do. My grandmother actually taught me how to make these. They've been made in my family for multiple generations, so. We went to three sporting events so far and out of the three sporting events, we sold out one time, which was really good. We sold everything out and we made a pretty decent amount of money. I've done pretty good on the caramel corn. I've sold out. It's something fun that we enjoy, and we can make money off of it, so. So when they get all done, whether they want to be that entrepreneur right away or they want to be an intrepreneur, an employee, we feel that we are contributing and helping them be that better employee, more employable.