Entrepreneurship+-+What+did+we+learn+today?

__** Junior Achievement Scholarships 2012 **__ The national scholarship applications for Junior Achievement have been posted online. Mrs. McKinnon mentioned in her email that it would be in your best interest to complete the applications over Christmas break and to note the deadlines for each of the applications as they could be nearing the end of the year or the semester. Here is the link to the scholarships:

[|Junior Achievement Scholoarships]



__**Tuesday, January 4th to Monday, January 23rd, 2012**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can reflect on our learning experience by completing the "Venture Evaluation"
 * We can complete the final shareholders report for our final meeting
 * We can conclude the class with our final shareholder meeting
 * We can close our business out which includes paying all shareholders

__**How we will learn it**__ As you are in grade 12, I expect high quality answers and not just one sentence explanations. This needs to be thought out. Your responses will go anonymously to your President and VPs as you begin to create the final shareholder's report, which will start right after Christmas break. **The date that this will be due will be Monday, January 9th, 2012.** Here is the document if you need it, again:
 * __Tuesday, January 4th to Monday, January 9th:__** During these classes, you will have time to work on your "Venture Evaluation" that you were given before Christmas break. Please make sure to read over the instructions on the cover page of the document.



__**Monday, January 9th to Tuesday, January 17th**__: A reminder that your Venture Evaluation is due today. Begining on Tuesday, all of the Presidents and VPs will have access to the info and will begin creating the final shareholders report. This document will be used in the **final shareholder meeting which will be taking place on Wednesday, January 18th**. This final meeting will be like your final exam. If you miss your final exam, you will have to write a supplemental exam during exam week. The meetings will be taking place during period 3 and into noon hour so please be prepared. We will have Mrs. McKinnon joining us, as well as the reresentatives from the community that were at your first board meeting. We will be rehearsing these meetings before the 18th.

Also, here is the outline and contents that need to be included for the final shareholder report for the Presidents and VPs:



__**Wednesday, January 18th:**__ **FINAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING FOR BOTH COMPANIES. THIS IS YOUR FINAL EXAM.**


 * __Thursday, January 19th to 23rd__: During these classes you will have time to study for your other classes as well as getting paid out for your part in your company. Please remember that scholarships are available (see the top of the page for details) for only Junior Achievement participants, which you now are. **

__**Monday, December 12th to Wednesday, December 21st, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can distribute and market our products to the community through many different areas of marketing
 * We can continue to work towards our financial and producation goals
 * WE CAN PRODUCE AND SELL!!
 * WE CAN HAVE HAPPY CUSTOMERS!! :)
 * We can begin considering liquidating our products to clear out inventory
 * We can reflect on the successes and areas that we learned from in our companies through self-reflection
 * We can begin to create our Final Shareholder's Report to present at our final board meeting

__**How we will learn it**__ Well here we are! Your last few days of your companies before we go into liquidation (we will talk about that in a bit). This week, I don't have dates setup as everything will be done as we go. However, there is a few things we need to talk about before we get started on your final week.

1. __**Peacock's Christmas Concert:**__ This will be taking place on the evening of **Wednesday, December 14th at 7:30 pm**. This will probably one of your last opportunities to sell directly to the public, one on one. I would have your tables setup by 7:00 to allow for the customers heading into the auditorium. I will be available that night for companies that want to take advantage of having the public within the school. You will be allowed to sell before the concert or after the concert. Believe me, people stick around after the concert to talk, so it might be a great time to make a few sales!

2. __**Liquidation of Products**__: This is part of the business where you will need to look at your stock and decide how much stock you have left and whether or not it would be beneficial to your companies to start lowering the cost of your products in order to get stock out the door. Is it worth you having a sale at noon in the student lounge? Giving discounts to the staff at Peacock? You and your company will need to decide this along with your VP of Sales crunching the numbers to make sure you aren't selling yourself too short. What amount makes sense at this point?

3. __**YOUR CUSTOMERS DESERVE THE BEST:**__ Do NOT slack on your customers! They are what makes your company successful! Orders need to be filled promptly and with quality!

4. __**Cheques in the Bank**__: **VPs of Finance**, any cheques you receive must be in the bank before **Wednesday, December 21st**! We can't have any cheques going in after because our customers will NOT be happy! Plus some cheques expire on New Years and then you are out of money!

5. __**Final Evaluation for Entrepreneurship 30, 2011**__: Yes, each of you will have a final evaluation for this class. As you are in grade 12, I expect high quality answers and not just one sentence explanations. This needs to be thought out. Your responses will go anonymously to your President and VPs as you begin to create the final shareholder's report, which will start right after Christmas break. **The date that this will be due will be Monday, January 9th, 2012.** We will be going through this document together on the last day before break, before we clean everything up. I just want you to be aware that it is here for you now when you are ready to look over it. Some of you may work on it over Christmas break or you will wait until we come back after break. Here is the document for you to look at:



6. __**Final Shareholders Report January 2012**__: This is the final step in the business that we will be working on when you return from Christmas break. You will be working on this final report after I receive all of the Final Evaluations (look above at #5) on January 9th. Your final board meetings still have yet to be determined but we will know them, hopefully before Christmas break gets here. In this report you will be presenting all of the things that made your company successful and the things that, looking back, you would have changed to make it that much better. The President and all the VPs, just like with the business plan, will have reports to complete. Luckily, this is the only thing you will have to work on, plus preparing for your board meeting. We will be going over the document when you get back from break, this is just so you have an idea of what will be expected when we go to put the document together.



Now, let's get back to work and have a great week! :) SELL SELL SELL!!!



__**Monday, December 5th to Friday, December 9th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can distribute and market our products to the community through many different areas of marketing
 * We can continue to work towards our financial and producation goals
 * WE CAN PRODUCE AND SELL!!
 * WE CAN HAVE HAPPY CUSTOMERS!! :)

__**How we will learn it**__ This week will basically include getting your product out there to the community. You need to be selling, selling, and oh yes, MORE selling. Where are you selling? Does the community know about your product?
 * __Monday, December 5th to Friday, December 9th:__**

Also, did you know that Mr. Young is here at noon and after school if you need extra time to work in your space? Of course you know this!

Ms. Rowe will also be coming in, on Wednesday, to talk about her observations from the weekend during your sales at the Mall.

Next week, I will be going over your final evaluation for the class along with the outline for your final shareholders report. These will need to be completed after Christmas break; however I want you to have them now so that you can start to think about them.
 * Also, please remember that all order must be filled within a day. There is no excuses for you not having the stock on hand to complete orders. You don't want to lose orders because you can't fill them. These are your customers. GET IT DONE!**

You can do this!



__**Monday, November 28th to SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 2011**__ (YES, SUNDAY) __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can present our business plans to the business community
 * We can get our products our to the community through many different areas of marketing
 * We can continue to work towards our financial and production goals
 * WE CAN PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE and SELL SELL SELL :)

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, November 28th, 2011:__** PeaCreations, you are on your own for the period. Please make sure that you are producing, selling, and getting your product our there. Have you been downtown yet? Delicious Delights, you are with me in the library, looking things over, and going over last minute stuff for your board meeting that is taking place tomorrow. You need to remember that you have to have your three things ready to go:

1. BUSINESS PLAN 2. Agenda 3. Products for tables

__**Tuesday, November 29th, 2011**__: PeaCreations you are doing your thing (produce, market, sell!!!!!!), and Delicious Delights, you are having your board meeting in the library! **Please remember you are allowed out of your second period class at 10:30 to head to the library and setup for your board meeting.**

__**Wednesday, November 30th, 2011:**__ EVERYONE IS NOW PRODUCING, SELLING, and MARKETING their products!! GO AND DO YOUR THING!!! Also, I will be talking to three members of each team about going to Regina next Tuesday, December 7th for the Jingle Bell Luncheon put on by Junior Achievement.


 * Jingle Bell Lunch: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 - All Day**
 * The people that will be attending this luncheon will be the President, VP of Marketing and Sales, and the VP of Production. We will be spending the day in Regina at the luncheon and we will also make one last trek to Gale's Wholesale, in case anyone needs something from here.**

> __**Thursday, December 1st, 2011**__: I will not be here tomorrow or on Monday. Miss Mohr will be in and working with you. She is just here as an advisor so please make sure you are working extra hard for her! I will be going over your weekend "Mall Selling" right now so you are aware of your time there:
 * Things that came up from both board meetings:**
 * Both companies have huge potential! Your products are great! It is up to you to make it successful! You need to access your contacts. Mr. Young is almost tapped out. He can't do it for you.
 * You have to get out there and promote your products (everyone is in charge of this)
 * Your quality of product needs to be equal (every customer is equal, and gets equal product)
 * Don't forget your tags on your products (stickers, instructions, etc.)
 * Time for all companies to decide who is dead weight and who needs to go (this was discussed without you guys there). I will go with the companies decision. Remember, these people are getting a cut of your profits at the end of the class for doing nothing. If you want out now, here's your chance! Also remember this is continuous. You can't be productive for one day and expect everyone to notice you and then you slack off.
 * People that missed their board meetings will have a make-up interview next week. Same rubric/evaluation applies as the board meeting. You will be meeting with Mr. Boyes and he is going to interview about your role in the company.
 * Talk about the mall right now.
 * Good luck and keep moving forward!

1. Times and information for selling at the mall:


 * PeaCreations: Saturday, December 3rd, 9:00 am til 5:00 pm (or mall closing)
 * Delicious Delights: Sunday, December 4th, 9:00 am til 5:00 pm (or mall closing)
 * **YOU MUST take your products with you on Friday before the end the day. The school will not be available over the weekend for you to come print stuff off and pick up products over the weekend!**
 * Each group's table is located outside of SportChek. They should be setup for you with chairs
 * I would advise you to take a table cloth, signs, poster, order forms, business cards, etc. to help you out
 * I would also advise you to take as much product as you can
 * Make sure to hold onto a display product so you can show customers, if you sell out of your products
 * **Ms. Rowe will be your advisor during the weekend, as I am away. She will be in to talk to you about her expectations during those two days and tell you how she will be available in my absence.**

__**Friday, December 2nd, 2011**__: Miss Mohr will be with you today. I would be getting your products ready to sell this weekend and have them somewhere that you can get them, and all of your supplies, after school. I will ask Miss Mohr to stay until 3:45 pm for you guys to get your stuff out of the classroom.


 * __Saturday, December 3rd, 2011__: PEACREATIONS SELLING AT THE MALL FROM 9:00 AM TIL MALL CLOSING **

**Have a very productive ($$$) weekend!**
 * __Sunday, December 4th, 2011__: DELICIOUS DELIGHTS AT THE MALL FROM 9:00 am TIL MALL CLOSING **



__**Monday, November 21st to Thursday, Novemeber 24th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can present our business plans to the business community
 * We can continue to develop our products
 * We can get our products out to the community through many different areas of marketing
 * We can continue to work towards our financial and product goals

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, November 21st:__** Today, Delicious Delights, you are working on product and everything else. Peacreations, you are with me as we start to go over your board meeting layout!

__**Tuesday, November 22nd**__: Again, Delicious Delights, you are doing your thing in your room and Peacreations and I are heading to the library to go over your board meeting for tomorrow.

Things to make sure are done:

1. BUSINESS PLAN!! 2. Agenda 3. Products to display on tables

__**Wednesday, November 23rd**__: **Peacreations board meeting taking place in the library at 11:00 am!!!** Delicious Delights, you are on next Tuesday, November 29th. Please remember the rubric I will be using to evaluate every one of you!



__**Thursday, November 24th:**__ Peacreations, you get do continue with your thing today with your products, Delicious Delights, you are with me in preparing for your board meeting on Tuesday, November 29th.

**__Friday, November 25th__**: This is a non-student day at Peacock. However, if any of you need to come in to work on products or anything, please feel free to come in and work for as long as you need! I will be here!

Have a great weekend!

__**Monday, November 14th, to Friday, November 18th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can continue to develop our business plans
 * We can get the first batch of our products ready for customers
 * We can discuss the process for your first business meeting with Junior Achievement
 * We can promote our products within the community using many different forms of media outlets

__**Monday, November 14th**__: A big welcome to Ms. Gagne from Junior Achievement who will be here to see how your progress is going with your companies. She will be meeting with each group and observing your progress. Please ask questions as she is a very successful Entrepreneur and has had years of experience. She has "been there" so seek the advice that you need. We continued working on our business plans and start-ups for our company.

__**Tuesday, November 15th to Thursday, November 17th**__: During this time I will be talking to the presidents of each of the companies to see who will be going for the first board meeting on November 23rd and who will be going on November 29th. I will also be sitting down with each group to go over the process of your board meetings and the expectations. Both groups will meet with me on **Tuesday, November 15th.**

__**Friday, November 18th**__: Please remember that classes will be shortened due to the Awards Assembly taking place this morning!

Have a great weekend!



__**Monday, November 7th to Thursday, November 10th, 2011**__ (Remembrance Day on Friday, November 11th) __** What are we learning? **__
 * We can continue to develop our business plans
 * We can get the first batch of our products ready for customers
 * We can discuss the process for your first business meeting with Junior Achievement

__**Monday, November 7th, 2011**__: Please refer back to **Thursday, November 3rds** entry for what you need to bec completing this week. ** Reminder: Mrs. McKinnon comes tomorrow to check on your progress. What do you have to show her? **

Also, the schedule for your first board meeting with Mrs. McKinnon, Junior Achievement representatives, and local entrepreneurs, will be taking place on the following dates, during class time:


 * ** Wednesday, November 23rd from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm in the library **
 * ** Tuesday, November 29th from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm in the library **

I have put together the following document for you to use in preparation for your board meeting. You should print it off and go over it with your group within the next couple of days. Will be using 2 period prior to your actual business meeting to rehearse how it will look for the people coming to see it. Here is the document and rubric I will be using to evaluate each of you during your meeting on your specific date:



__**Tuesday, November 8th:**__ Mrs. McKinnon will be here to check on your progress. What do you have to share with her?

__**Wednesday, November 9th:**__ Based on your discussions with Mrs. McKinnon, are you ready to start selling your product? It is now time to get your product out there and start selling. Also, your business plan need to coninute to be worked on.

__**Thursday, November 10th**__: Today, our class will be shortened due to our Remembrance Day ceremony at Peacock.

__**Friday, November 11th**__: No school as it is Remembrance Day

Have a great weekend!

__**Monday, October 31st to Thursday, November 3rd, 2011**__ (Friday, November 4th is a non-student day due to interviews) __**What we learning?**__
 * We can begin creating our business plans
 * We can use technology to collaborate on our business plans and market our products
 * We can begin discussing the idea of business shares with your company
 * We can engage in verbal discussion within our groups on company ideas for names of our companies
 * We can develop our financial start-up within the company
 * We can discuss business ideas with mentors in Junior Achievement to analyze decisions within our companies

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, October 31st and Tuesday, November 1st:**__ Today, we will be continuing on from where we left off last week. We now have our Presidents and VPs in place for our companies and will now continue working our list from last week of things to accomplish before Wednesday's meeting with Mrs. McKinnon and Ms. Gagne (refer to Wednesday, October 26th's entry for the things you need to be working on). Again, by the end of this week we should start producing and selling. As well, we will continue to work on the business plans for your companies and other things that will arise from your meetings on Wednesday.


 * Reminder: Report cards are scheduled to be handed out on Tuesday, at the end of the day. **

__**Wednesday, November 2nd:**__ Today is your meetings with Mrs. McKinnon and Ms. Gagne. Please be prepared to show them what you have accomplished since last weeks visit based on what we have discussed in class. From your discussions with them, we will use this as another base for how the next number of classes will look. Thank you again to both Mrs. McKinnon and Ms. Gagne, from Junior Achievement, for coming in to work with us to make our businesses more successful through their guidance and ideas.

__**Thursday, November 3rd:**__ Will update this entry after your visits with Mrs. McKinnon an Ms. Gagne.

UPDATE

Based on your discussions with Mrs. McKinnon, here are the things we need to work on for this week:

**Mrs. McKinnon will be back to see you on this Tuesday, November 8th to check on your progress.** 1. **Price Per Unit of your products**: You MUST know your price per unit so that you can then set the cost of your product based on your materials and the labor that it takes to create it. VP of Finance should have a spread sheet made up for that. This way you will know what your start up cost will be so you can set your "share rate". If you have not gone out to ask people about what they would pay for your products, you need to NOW! That was the market research that should have been done last week and the week before.

2. **Shares** - Shares need to be in and recorded in the NEXT WEEK (by next Thursday, November 10th) to the **VP of Finance.** Your group needs to set the date, in writing (**VP of Human Resource** needs to create that document). Once the date has passed, no one can buy into the company. Remember what Mrs. McKinnon said, that the more people that invest into the company, the less each of you will have to take away at the end. YOU MUST KNOW YOUR START UP COSTS to set your shares!

3. **Marketing** - **The VP of Marketing and Sales** needs to be working with everyone to get the word out to the public. Remember, everyone talked about their contacts of who they can use to promote your products. Some of the contacts that you could make that came from your discussions with Mrs.McKinnon are:


 * Chamber of Commerce (email and print)
 * Retirement Homes or Businesses (setting up displays with order forms or leaving brochures)
 * Radio Station (yes, both groups can use this)
 * Facebook, Website, Twitter, etc. (Your **VP of Information Technology**better be ALL over this)
 * The Mall (setting up a table at the mall to sell your product)
 * Craft Shows (are there any coming up?)
 * [|www.discovermoosejaw.com](ad space)
 * Talk to the ladies in the office and see if they could help you with taking orders. (You better put a smile on your face!)
 * Mr. Skorpad (Career and Work Experience consultant)

4. **Minutes of Your Meetings**: Based on all the meetings you have, the VP of Human Resource, must have the minutes of each meeting recorded. Those will need to be typed up and kept for record keeping. You can use **page 51** **and 52** of your JA manual to see what needs to be included in the minutes. WHENEVER you meet together to discuss the business, those minutes MUST be recorded. I encourage you to make a blank document that you can keep from meeting to meeting (paper copy and on your network space on the computers). Also at the beginning of every week, if would be great to include this into your meeting so that you know what the goals are for the week. I would use this as part of your meeting to keep your business on track. The VP of Human Resources can distribute this to everyone in the company as a reminder of your goals:



5. **Your First Official Board Meeting** - These meeting will be taking place on Friday, November18th and Wednesday, Novemeber 23rd. One group will go one day and one group will go the next. This meeting will take place in front of Mrs. McKinnon, Junior Achievement advisors, and local entrepreneurs from around Moose Jaw. We will be rehearsing these meetings two classes prior to your actul meeting taking place and we will go through the expectations of those meetings, next week. Please just remember that your business plan must be completed before the date (all VPs will need to make sure that their section is completed) and your reports for the meeting will be ready to go. We will discuss this more next week.

6. **Attendance -** Now is the time when things start getting crazy. You have a lot on your plate right now. The one thing you need to remember is that you are actually earning a credit for this class, as well as (hopefully) a cheque to take home with you at the end of the class. Your homework IS YOUR BUSINESS!! No other class in the school is like this. Your attendance reflects your impact on your class and your company. At this point, you can be FIRED from the company if attendance becomes an issue. That also means that you share will be lost to the company, as well. Your company is not going to wait for you as it needs to move forward. This happens in real life, trust me! That does not mean that you are out of the class. You will do an independent study for the class and earn the credit. I have already talked with Mrs. Lewis, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Boyes, and you can take Entrepreneurship 30 online. That will be your option. You will not be part of the selling process, at all. Your in grade 12, you can figure this out!

From time to time, I will be using the following rubric to evaluate your personal contribution to your business. Don't be surprised if you see me in your area watching your progress. I will also be using this rubric, with your group's guidance, if your attedance or failure to be a team player within the company, becomes an issue:




 * Remember, tonight is Parent/Student/Teacher interviews at Peacock. Please feel free to stop by the school between 6:30 and 8:30 pm to discuss your progress in your classes, with your parents and teachers. **


 * __Friday, November 4th:__ Today is non-student day. However, please feel to stop by Peacock for Parent/Student/Teacher interviews and discuss your progress in your classes. They will be taking place between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm. **

Have a great weekend!

Does this sound like you at all during class sometimes?

media type="youtube" key="BNvH2ZVxZo4?version=3" height="283" width="378" align="center"

__**Tuesday, October 25th, to Friday, October 28th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine our markets for our products by doing market research and using our prototypes
 * We can examine the internal structure of our companies as we begin to create our business plans
 * We can narrow down our product ideas through group discussion and using a professional opinion

__**Tuesday, October 25th**__: Mrs. McKinnon is back to see your prototypes and go through market research with you. She will also be talking to you about the internal make-up of your business. We will be deciding on your President and Vice-President roles before the end of the week.

__**Wednesday, October 26th**__: Stemming from your conversations with Mrs. McKinnon yesterday there are a number of things we need to get done before Friday:

1. **Decisions** - You need to pick how you are going to vote within your company on decisions. Please take your JA books and turn to page 34. As a group, read over the "Making Decisions As a Team or Company" section. Then, as a group, you will need to decide how you are going to vote on different topics. This will need to be typed up and signed by everyone within the comapny. We will be putting these in our binders that the President and VPs will be getting on Friday.

2. **President, Vice-President, and Cutomer Service Speeches -** The voting for this will take place on Thursday. Everyone, regardless of their role will be making a speech. Yes, customer service will also make a speech highlighting the points below. The speeches need not be more that **3 minutes** in length. In your speech you will want to highlight the following:
 * What skills you have that makes you qualified for the position
 * What you will do for the company as a whole
 * How do you see the company being successful


 * We will vote by ballot. Please remember that you can run for two positions, but only need to make one speech**.

3. **Products** - You MUST, by the end of this week, know how much your product is going to cost to make per unit. That way, we will know where to start pricing your product for your customers.

4. **Business Plan** - Every business needs to have a written document called a "Business Plan". This is to keep track of every single move you make within your company and what your company will do in order to be successful. After talking with Mrs. McKinnon, we decided the best thing for you to all contribute and collaborate would be to use Google Docs. Peack-Treats used it last year with great success. I will go over what you can actually do with it in class and then all of you will have access to your link for your business. Here is a link for each of the companies. I encourage you to take it, put it on your wikispaces so that you have access to it at all times:

[]#
 * Team 1** -

[]#
 * Team 2**-

__**Thursday, October 27th**__: This is the day of your speeches for President and Vice-President positions in your company. Speeches will be made and we will have a ballot vote. Everyone in the company will be making speeches for thier positions. Even if you are working in customer service, you will still make a speech stating what you will do for the company. Once we have done that, it will be time for those people to start managing their roles.

__**Friday, October 28th**__: With your posistions all chosen, if is time to starting focusing on marketing and selling your product. We will be in full force starting next week. All of your positions must be ready. **Mrs. McKinnon and Katherine will be coming in next Wednesday, and you need to be ready for that.**



__**Monday, October 17th to Friday, October 21st, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine our potential ideas through market research
 * We can create prototypes and designs of our potential products
 * We can examine the roles of the company through our Junior Achievement

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, October 17th:__** Today, just like the end of last week, we will start to develop your products for your business (please refer back to last weeks entries). Again, here is a copy of the "Identifying the Business Idea" worksheets for you to download and use within your groups. **MONEY FOR YOUR PROTOTYPES WILL BE AVAILABLE STARTING ON TUESDAY!**



__**Tuesday, October 18th and Wednesday, October 19th**__: Teams will have available money to use for their prototypes of their products. Remember you only have a certain amount that is going to be given to you. **YOU MUST KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS**!
 * All permission forms for Thursday's trip to Regina must be turned in by Wednesday's class. **


 * __Thursday, October 20th__: Junior Achievement Workshop in Regina! Bus leaves Peacock at 11:00. You may bring a bag lunch and we will stop at Subway if you would like to purchase a sandwich. We will be be returning back to Peacock for a 4:30 return time! **

__**Friday, October 21st**__: Today, we will debrief about the workshop yesterday, discuss your roles, voting, and then get back to creating our products and our market research. Mrs. McKinnon will be returning to see you on Wednesday, October 26th so we need to be prepared to really narrow down our products and discuss our market research with her. Market Research might not be totally done, but we can at least show her what you have.

Have a great weekend!



__**Tuesday, October 11th to Friday, October 14th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can look at the "Big Ideas" when it comes to choosing a product for our business
 * We can reflect on the idea of using our "personal contacts" in helping us with our business
 * We can examine the ideas of others and how their products lead to their success
 * We can examine the ideas of others and how their products didn't succeed and what we can learn from their mistake
 * We can discuss our ideas for our products with a consultant

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Tuesday, October 11th**__: Welcome back from your long weekend! I hope it was a good one! Today, you are going to meet back in your groups to get your master lists ready with product ideas, personal contacts, and maybe even a design or two for Katherine, as she is going to be meeting with you tomorrow during the course of the period.

__**Wednesday, October 12th**__: Today you will be meeting with Mrs. McKinnon. From there we will see what the rest of our week will look like as we start to piece together what your company is going to look like. Thank you Mrs. McKinnon for coming in to see us today and helping us narrow down our ideas with our products.

__**Thursday, October 13th**__: Today we are going to work in a large group for a bit to discuss a few things that came up from your meetings with Mrs. McKinnon, yesterday. Our goal, this class, it to look at the following areas and then any time that is left, we will break off into our teams to start working on narrowing down your ideas for your products. Here is what we need to look at right now:

1. **Voting** - Talk briefly about how you will vote when things come up in your company. Whether it be voting for positions or on products, there needs to be a vote on how things will be handled in your group. We will be looking at this early next week and your group will need to come up with a written document, with all signatures, on how voting will happen. Some groups in the past have done that there needs to be a 100% committment from everyone, or go with over 60% majority gets the vote. Think about it. We will be looknig at page 34 in your books next week for guidance.

2. **Identifying your buisness idea** - Market Research for your product As Mrs. McKinnon said yesterday, you have to start narrowing down your ideas for your product. That means showing your product to other people by making something up on the computer or creating a prototype of your products. Based on your market research, you will hopefully we able to narrow down your product choices even further from the list that you already have. I have taken a copy of the questions that Mrs. Mckinnon went over with your yesterday and created a document that you can print off and use with your products. Please feel free to take the document and use it however you wish. You can change it to fit your needs for your team. Here are some copies for you:



3. **Cost for Prototypes of Products -** During yesterdays conversations, a point was made about the cost of creating prototypes for your products as you are doing market research. I heard a few things mentioned that we can discuss right now and I am open to anything as long as we are moving thos process forward: > Again, HE WILL be paid back!!!!! :)
 * Mr. Young will see if there is some money available in our School Supplies account (will talk with Mrs. Edmiston) that would help you with your prototypes (this money would need to be paid back when you make your profits). Recipts MUST be submitted!
 * Mr. Young can give you a loan (with advance notice) but he will be paid back as you make profit on your product.
 * You keep a copy of your receipts of the things you pay for for your for your prototype products and the company will pay you back as you see profit.
 * Any other ideas???

4. **Junior Achievement Workshop on Thursday, October 20th in Regina** **(11:00 - 4:15)** - As we have discussed in class, on this date we will be travelling to Regina to attend the workshop. This is a great time for you to learn all about the areas that you can be involved with within your compnay. I will be giving you a handout that describes all of the positions that are up for your company. Please read through it when you have time today to see what each position has to offer and what you would be in charge of.


 * On Friday, I will be circulating a document that will ask you to sign up for one area you are interested in trying out for. Those that do not wish to try out for any of the positions can sign up for the "Customer Service" workshop. This is an "All Areas of the Company" workshop where you will talk about cutomer service, production, and being an asset to your company.**

Also, I will be handing out, now, your permission forms to attend next Thursday's workshop. It is your responsibility to get the signatures you will need for periods 4 and 5 and your parents signature. I have attached a letter for your parents/guardains to your permission form. Please take it home for them to read. If you forget the copy of the letter at school, please download a copy here to show your parents:



5. **Team Meetings** - We will break into our groups, if we have time left, and you can start looking at the questions that Mrs. McKinnon wanted you to look at yesterday (document above in number 2).

__**Friday, October 14th**__: Today we will be gathering back in our teams to continue to look at the "Market Research" for your company. Again, please use the questions (download above or in the handouts section of your class) to guide you in narrowing down your products. If I have any more information on prototype costs, I will share those with you during class. Have a great weekend!

__**Monday, October 3rd to Friday, October 7th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can look at the "Big Ideas" when it comes to choosing a product for our business
 * We can reflect on the idea of using our "personal contacts" in helping us with our business
 * We can examine the ideas of others and how their products lead to their success
 * We can examine the ideas of others and how their products didn't succeed and what we can learn from their mistake

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, October 3rd:__** Today, we debriefed about our experiences downtown. We talked about the products we saw, the service we received while in the stores, and what we can learn from them.

__**Tuesday, October 4th**__: Today, we were very fortunate to have Mrs. McKinnon return to her old stomping grounds as she now joined as as a consultant for the Ministry of Education as a consultant and a representative of Junior Achievement. Mrs. McKinnon brought us many products to look at that were successful and not so successful over the last number of years that Junior Achievement has been working with students. We were able to ask questions and really start to think of where we are going to go with your companies.

__**Wednesday, October 5th**__: Today, we are going to spend the period using Google and YouTube to see what kind of products we can begin to focus on and create within our companies. You will be keeping a list of all the products you think of (use the computers). On Thursday, you will FINALLY be placed in your groups for your Junior Achievement company. This is going to be one of the most important classes to be at as you are going to be sitting down with your members and discussing product ideas, personal contacts, etc.

__**Thursday, October 6th**__: Today, you are finally going to be placed into your companies. Right now we are calling you Team 1 and Team 2. Soon enough, I will be calling you by your business name. Today, you will spend the time in your group getting to know each other, talking about product idea, and personal contacts.

__**Friday, October 7th**__: Today, you will again meet in your Team 1 and Team 2 groups. Your mission today is to start coming up with your top 10 ideas for products in your companies. Next Wednesday, October 12th, Katherine from JA will be joing us and talking to each group about their ideas and where the need to go from here. It would be great that if there is a product or two that stands out that you maybe make up a design for it to show Katherine, just so she can see what you are thinking about. Have a great long weekend! Enjoy the Turkey!

__**Monday, September 26th to Friday, September 30th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * To develop entrepreneurial skills that may contribute to the success of the student’s practical learning experience
 * To assess opportunities at home, school, and in the community and to develop those opportunities by applying personal experience, knowledge, and expertise.
 * To promote both intuitive, imaginative thought and the ability to evaluate ideas, processes, experiences, and objects in meaningful contexts in order to create or identify entrepreneurial opportunities
 * To develop independence in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning experiences
 * To enable students to think for themselves and to recognize the limits of individual reflection and the need to contribute to and build upon mutual understandings

__**How we will learn it**__
 * As I am not sure about when Ms. Gagne will be coming in to see us from Junior Achievement, I am hopeful it will be this week. Therefore this schedule may change depending on when she comes in to see us.**

__**Monday, September 26th:**__ Today, we are going to be taking another look at the TV show, Dragon's Den. However, today we are going to be focusing on the Dragon's and their rise to fame as Entrepreneurs. Everyone has to start somewhere, right? You may not that one of the former Dragons', Brett Willson, is featured in this episode. He is a typical praire boy that went for it and now runs mulit-million dollar corporations all around the world. What I would like you to do as we watch this episode is think about this:

Here is a link to the episode if you are away:
 * "What skills and talents (professional and personal) do each of these Dragons' have that contributed to their success? Which one do I identify with the most based on similar qualites that I possess."**

[|Rags to Riches]

__**Tuesday, September 27th to Thursday, September 29th**__: Viewing episodes of [|Dragon's Den]. Again, we are looking at the qualities and skills of an Entrepreneur.


 * __Friday, September 30th__**: Today, we are going to take a walk into Downtown Moose Jaw, and look in some of the shops to see if we can come up with a few ideas for your big Junior Achievement business. **REMEMBER, NO IDEA IS A BAD IDEA! You are in the THINKING stage! Every business has to start with an idea!** We will break off into partners or groups and take a walk downtown. Your job is to get into at least 4 stores to look around. I suggest the southern part of Main Street as their are more independent shops, but you are welcome to use any part of Main Street to go look around. I encourage you to use your phones or notebooks to put down ideas so that you can have them for safe keeping. Once we find out what we are doing for our business groups, we will share our ideas. Hopefully this will be next week.

Have a great weekend!



__**Tuesday, September 20th to Friday, September 23rd**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * To develop entrepreneurial skills that may contribute to the success of the student’s practical learning experience
 * To assess opportunities at home, school, and in the community and to develop those opportunities by applying personal experience, knowledge, and expertise.
 * To promote both intuitive, imaginative thought and the ability to evaluate ideas, processes, experiences, and objects in meaningful contexts in order to create or identify entrepreneurial opportunities
 * To develop independence in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning experiences
 * To enable students to think for themselves and to recognize the limits of individual reflection and the need to contribute to and build upon mutual understandings

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Tuesday, September 20th**__: Hope you all had a great weekend! Today, as I am away with the cross country team, Ms. Rowe is hanging out with you guys as you are working on your journal entries. I would like you to create a new page on your wikispace called "Lemonade Project". Please refer to the handout that you were given last week for the Lemonade Stand project. At the very end of the handout it tells you what I need you to complete for that page. For this write-up you have two choices:

1. Create your journal entry in Microsoft Word and upload your response to your Lemonade Project page. 2. Create your entire response on the page of your wiki.

Please remember that you are in Grade 12. I expect really good responses and lots of good thoughts. I have taught grade 9 for 7 years and reading your responses is going to be a PLEASURE!!!

__**Wednesday, September 21st**__: Today, we are going to start looking at the qualities of other Entrepreneurs as we view and episode or two of the CBC hit show, [|Dragon's Den]. As you know, every Entrepreneur needs to have a number of things in order to start up their business. One of the BIGGEST ones is, yep you guessed it, a great idea that the public will buy into! As we watch this show I would like you view the following:

1. The conduct of the people that are presenting their products to the "Dragons". 2. The questions that the Dragon's ask the Entrepreneurs.

While we are watching, I encourage you to think about yourselves and how you would handle the situations that the entrepreneurs are in. Remember, these people are trying to sell their ideas to gain funding from the Dragon's. How would you prepare and act when you are trying to get money from someone to invest in your idea? We will be coming back to this series as we continue through the next few weeks.


 * __Thursday, September 22nd__**: Today, as per or discussion from last week, you will get today's period off as you gave up your time at noon during our Lemonade Project! Congratulations! You earned it! :)

__**Friday, September 23rd**__: Today, Katherine Gagne, from Junior Achievement will be visiting us to discuss the beginnings of our next big venture. She will be providing us with some start up information. It is a very important class to be at so come and be ready to see what she has to share with us!

Unfortunately, Katherine could not be with us today. Today, we will use as catch up and idea day! Anyone that is not done their journal entries for "Lemonade Project" please finish those up and get them on your wikis. I will also be using today to link your wikispace with mine. Please be prepared with your site address. Today, if you have some time, you may start thinking or looking online for ideas for your Junior Achievement business. This will be very open and, as of right now, NO idea is a bad idea! :) Have a great weekend! :)



__**Monday, September 12th to Thursday, September 15th, 2011**__ (Non Student Day Friday, September 6 and Monday, September 19th) __**What are we learning?**__
 * To develop entrepreneurial skills that may contribute to the success of the student’s practical learning experience
 * To assess opportunities at home, school, and in the community and to develop those opportunities by applying personal experience, knowledge, and expertise.
 * To promote both intuitive, imaginative thought and the ability to evaluate ideas, processes, experiences, and objects in meaningful contexts in order to create or identify entrepreneurial opportunities
 * To work with others toward a common goal
 * To develop independence in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning experiences
 * To enable students to think for themselves and to recognize the limits of individual reflection and the need to contribute to and build upon mutual understandings

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, September 12:**__ As you know, we are continuing our "Lemonade Project" this week. Please remember to refer to your package that was given to you last week with the schedule of things to do on each day. You will be selling your lemonade this **Wednesday, September 14th at noon.**

__**Tuesday, September 13th:**__ Please refer to your package (last week's entries) for info

__**Wednesday, September 14th**__: Prepping all of your stuff during period 3 and selling your product at NOON!

__**Thursday, September 15th**__: We will meet in the classroom during period 3. We will count up your cash box, clean up, and decide which charity we will donate our profits too. Please remember you do not have school this Friday or on Monday, September 19th. We will see you back here on Tuesday.


 * Have a great LONG weekend! CHECK OUT THE PICTURES OF YOUR FIRST VENTURE!!! PROUD OF YOU!! **

media type="custom" key="10464948"

__**Tuesday, September 6th to Friday, September 9th, 2011**__
 * __What are w__****__e learning?__**
 * To develop entrepreneurial skills that may contribute to the success of the student’s practical learning experience
 * To assess opportunities at home, school, and in the community and to develop those opportunities by applying personal experience, knowledge, and expertise.
 * To promote both intuitive, imaginative thought and the ability to evaluate ideas, processes, experiences, and objects in meaningful contexts in order to create or identify entrepreneurial opportunities
 * To work with others toward a common goal
 * To develop independence in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning experiences
 * To enable students to think for themselves and to recognize the limits of individual reflection and the need to contribute to and build upon mutual understandings

__**Tuesday, September 6th**__: Today you had one last day to work on your wikispaces for the start-up of class. Please remember that your wikispaces are due on Friday, September 9th. If you need extra time you can come see me at noon or after school.
 * __How we will learn it?__**

__**Wednesday, September 7th**__: ** GET YOUR LEMONADE HERE!!!! ** That's right! Welcome to our first venture into you creating a product that you will sell to the public. We will be going through the following handout, and you will put into your Entrepreneurship folder. As we go through this handout you will see a few tasks that you have to undertake in this new venture. It is going to be quick so you are going to have to be on top of your game for the next few classes!


 * __Thursday, September 8th and Friday, September 9th__**: Today and Friday, we will be working on our ventures. Please refer to the handout above for information on what you need to do.

Have a great weekend!

__**Monday, August 29th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can view the course outline and go over classroom procedures
 * We can discuss the skills of a beginning entrepreneur
 * We can begin to create a digital portfolio that we will use throughout the semester to demonstrate and select on our learning past, present, and future learning

__**How we will learn it?**__


 * Monday, September 29th**: Welcome Entrepreneurship 30! Today we will be going over the course outline, classroom procedures here on the wiki. As you can see, I am not giving you a paper copy of the outline as you can always access it here. The wiki address is the only thing you need to write down. Please remember that this wiki is setup for your use! You can access this on computers, tablets (iPads, etc), smartphones, and iPod touches. Please remember that you can download document from the wiki, as well. There is no excuse for you not knowing what is going on in the class!


 * Tuesday, September 30th:** Today, we will finish talking about course outline and then begin working on developing our own personal wikispace. We will be going over some of the basics of how to setup a wikispace in class an then you will be allowed to explore, on your own and with your classmates, on different things you can do with the wikispace site. Please refer to the handout for instructions (we will go over in class). As this is a big part of our class, I want to give you sometime to work on this project. You will be given the next few classes to get this completed. You will receive a rubric for your wikispace evaluation tomorrow.

I want you to think of your wikispace as a digital portfolio for you to keep everything that we look at in class, the projects you create, and in your journalizing when we begin looking at the creation and implementation of your actual business for the class.

For you, I believe the digital portfolio (wikispace) will accomplish this objectives:
 * reflect on personal growth and accomplishment
 * see links between home, school, and community education and activities
 * collect materials to prepare for employment applications
 * focus on career planning

[|Wiki Project.pdf]


 * Wednesday, August 31st to Friday, September 2nd**: You are going to be given these classes to work on your wikispace. Please remember to use the assignment above and the rubric down below so you will know what and how you are being evaluated on.



Have a great LONG weekend!

Just because it is your first FRIDAY back:

media type="youtube" key="DPVTl9K0lqc?version=3" height="204" width="252" align="center"