Griffin Den's Enterprise!

The Grades 5/6 and Grade 5 participated this year with the Social Entrepreneurial Adventure through The Learning Partnership of Canada.  The students formed five enterprises with products designed and created by the students. The process of learning was a rich experience with learning skills form collaboration to creative thinking. THe project started in December and continued until the end of May Please refer to the link of the Blog http://eagabe.blogspot.ca/ there is also an RSS feed on the side bar. The students also held a fair selling their products: An activity book, Griffins Activity Book; Case devils, pencils cases sewn from recycled materials; the Golden Glow lip Balm made form natural products; Cups of Hope natural tea using mint and lemon and Crafty Cards hand drawn and painted by students.

The Google drawing has all the links to the students' sites and blog of their products. Please click on the images of each enterprise to access the links. The link to the Google drawing to view students' sites and blogs. Google drawing for all links

"We Are Rafiki"

The opportunity for the Grade 6 class to become in the "Early Entrepreneurs" project came in early spring by a representative from the company.  In this project, students went through modules related to business entrepreneurship. The modules introduced how to develop a business based on 4 key aspects for success: Marketing, Product Design, Operations and Finance. The students also worked through a "free the children" module which focused on how we can end poverty in 3rd world countries.  "Early Entrepreneurs" provided us with a micro-loan of $100 to get started.  The students decided that they wanted to invest their money in the "We Are Rafiki" initiative, to support our school cause and Me to We. They quickly sold a case and used that money to buy another one, then two, etc.  After dividing up into Marketing, Product/Web Design, Operations and Finance teams, they set to work developing our cause.  All groups worked extremely well together and advertised the project perfectly.  They capitalized on the fact that Education Week was occurring and Mother's Day was approaching the following Sunday.  At the end of the project, the class sold over 34 cases of "Rafiki" chains...that's over 340 chains sold and over $3400 in product!