After months of collaboration between Barbourville High School’s Beta Club and the sixth graders in Kandi Baker’s classroom, the School Street Entrepreneur Fair was a huge success! Under the guidance of Beta sponsor Marsha Hubbs, high school Beta members worked with sixth graders to brainstorm products they could create to sell during the fair. The students learned entrepreneurial skills as they created business plans for their small businesses. They learned about marketing, creating a budget, setting prices to make a profit, and creating and revising prototypes of their products after peer review. The culminating event happened during Open House where many of the sixth graders set up creator booths and sold the products they had developed through this process during the School Street Entrepreneur Fair. Products on sale included jewlery, stickers, keychains, fishing lures, spirit buttons, knitted items, door hangers and numerous 3D printed items, just to name a few. The creativity and skill of these sixth graders was very impressive but they also learned their creativity could be profitable! Finally, the leadership put forth by high school Beta Club members to bring this event to fruition was equally impressive and a great example of learning through service to others. After much positive feedback from the school and community, this event just might need to become an annual event!
Marsha Hubbs
Barbourville City School
Barbourville Independent School District
K-12 School Counselor
