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__** Junior Achievement Scholarships 2012/13 **__ 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 Scholarships




 * __Monday, January 7th to Friday, January 25th, 2013__**
 * __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
 * We can reflect on the successes and areas that we learned from in our companies through self-reflection

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __ Monday, January 7th to Friday, January 11th :__** Welcome back from your Christmas Break! :) I hope it was a good one! As you can see below we have quite a few things left to do for the rest of the semester (3 weeks left!!).


 * __Final Evaluation Process for Entrepreneurhsip 30__**: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 me, as they are completed. **The date that this will be due will be Wednesday, January 16th, 2013.** Here is the document for you to download. During these classes, you will have time to work on your "Venture Evaluation". Please make sure to read over the instructions on the cover page of the document.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 to me.



__**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?

__**Final Shareholders Report**__: Your final board meetings still have yet to be determined (**tentatively Wednesday, January 23rd**) 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.



__** Monday, January 14th to Friday January 18th **__: Continue to work on Final Evaluation, getting prepared for our Final Shareholder's Meeting taking place on **Wednesday, January 23rd**.


 * __ Wednesday, January 23rd __**: ** FINAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING FOR BOTH COMPANIES. THIS IS YOUR FINAL EXAM **

CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU MADE IT!!!!
 * __ Friday, January 24th and 25th ____:__** If all expectations from Mr. Young are met, your cheque will be cut for you to take to the bank!


 * __Monday, December 17th to Friday, December 21st, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can continue to fill orders for our customers
 * We can continue to send out QUALITY products to all of our customers
 * We can finish up all of our orders before the end of the week
 * We can deposit all of our profits into the bank
 * We can begin to talk about the liquidating portion of the business (selling out of product)

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, December** 17th:__ Well here it is! The final week of our business! You guys have done a lot of work over the last few weeks and I am really proud of your progress! I know this week will be busy but we need to remember that we need to continue to send out QUALITY products to each of our customers!! This is our last day before orders cease tomorrow!

__**Tuesday, December 18th**__: ORDERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER TODAY! FILL FILL FILL!!!!!!!


 * __Wednesday, December 19th and Thursday, December 20th__**: During these classes will finish up ALL of our orders, contact ALL of our customers, and get ALL of our money deposited into the bank!! We will also be talking about the liquidation process that will take place after Christmas Break.

__**Friday, December 21st**__: WINTER LIT!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING IT THIS FAR IN THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROCESS!!! I want you all to enjoy your break because when we get back, we will be getting busy, again, with our final things. We will be creating our Final Shareholders Report for the business, everyone will be completing their final evaluations for the class, and we will officially closing the business! It is then that we will be putting in our donation to JumpStart, paying JA for our taxes, and finally, giving all of you your cut in the profits. It is going to be an exciting time and a busy time for the three weeks after we get back!

Have an AWESOME and SAFE Christmas Break!




 * __Monday, December 10th to Friday, December 14th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can promote our product to the community through marketing and positive word of mouth
 * We can reach our personal goals of selling the amount of product that we had set out to do
 * We can SELL SELL SELL SELL

__**How we will learn it!**__ __**Monday, December 10th to Friday, December 14th**__: This week, it is all about the SELLING and filling orders!!! Make it happen people! Make it happen! Let's have a great week and get our orders out there! We have 200 mugs coming from Canadian Tire! Let's get rid of them! :)

10 school days left til Christmas!!!




 * __Monday, December 3rd to Friday, December 7th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can promote our product to the community through marketing and positive word of mouth
 * We can reach our personal goals of selling the amount of product that we had set out to do
 * We can SELL SELL SELL SELL

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, December 3rd to Friday, December** 7th:__ First of all, CONGRATULATIONS on your meeting with the Minister! He was VERY impressed with you guys, as well as his guest, Mrs. McKinnon, Mr. Swanson, and everyone in attendance!

Now, moving onto this week! I am happy to report that this week is all about the selling! We have NO meetings this week!

A few things we need to be looking at as we go, this week:
 * I am happy to report that we made $ in sales at the mall this week. Thank You to everyone that came out to help sell and take orders!
 * We need mugs. We will talk about Canadian Tire and what they are going to do to help us out (Keaton can tell us).
 * Myself, Travis, and Megan are attending the Junior Achievement Luncheon, on Wednesday, in Regina. We need product for that.
 * Travis and Nathan have a meeting with Peter, the manager of Canadian Tire, on Wednesday. They will be discussing the charity and other things that I am sure they will report back to us.
 * President time to talk
 * Vice-President time to talk

WORK TIME!!!!


 * __Monday, November 26th to Friday, November 30th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL
 * We can Promote our product within the community
 * We can explain our product to guests that enter into our classroom

__**Monday, November 26th to Thursday, November 29th**__: THE BUSINESS PLAN IS DONE! OUR BOARD MEETING IS DONE!!! Now it is time to SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE!!!!! This is where it gets busy! You guys want to reach your goal? Now is the time to do it!!!

Things to think about this week (this will be your list):



__**Friday, November 30th**__: Today is a very special day. The Minister of Education, The Honourable Russ Marchuk, will be joining us and Central's Entrepreneurship class for a special meeting where you will have the opportunity to explain your product to him, tell him about your business, and explain how you are using your own personal money in a school setting to learn about how to become a successful Entrepreneur. He will be asking questions and the media will be here! It is a pretty amazing opportunity you are being given. NO ONE ELSE IN SASKATCHEWAN is being given this opportunity! What a great time for you to promote yourselves in the community!! You wanted Saskatchewan coverage! You GOT Saskatchewan coverage as this will be used locally and all over the place.

Do we have any ideas that we can use to present our product to him? Make him a mug welcoming him to Peacock?? Anything that you can come up with?


 * __Monday, November 19th to Friday, November 23rd, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning__**
 * We can contribute to the business through hard work and involvement
 * We can begin to make sales to the public
 * We can continue to develop the business plan
 * We can experience our first board meeting (with members from the public)
 * We can WORK TOGETHER for the SUCCESS of the business!!!!!!

__**Monday, November 19th**__: Ok, I have some news! Your board meeting has been pushed until Thursday, November 22nd !! You can all breathe a sigh of relief! However, we still have alot to get done before that time.

1. BUSINESS PLAN MUST BE COMPLETED, PROOF READ, and PRINTED OFF before the end of Wednesday's class

2. On Wednesday, we will be discussing the protocol for a board meeting! I will be taking you to the library to show you how to set everything up and we will be looking at PeacTreats video to help us.

3. The VP of Human Resource will have our agenda read for us. Here is a copy of the handout that can be changed up:



4.Everyone at the meeting will need a copy of the agenda (all 6 guesst, your advisors, and all of you) as well as the business plan.

5. Here is a copy of the rubric for EVERYONE! Yes you will be graded on your board meeting! Let's take a look at what I will be evaluating you on:



6. We need to CONTINUE developing our product and making sales, if they come in! It would be awesome to see a few sales come through our door this week to tell our guests about!

LET'S GET TO WORK!!!!

__**Tuesday, November 20th**__: Continue on with yesterday's progress

__**Wednesday, November 21st**__: We will be looking at PeacTreats video and discussing how they ran their meeting. We will also be visiting the libary to see how everything will need to be set up.

__**Thursday, November 22nd**__: BOARD MEETING!!! NOBODY MISSES!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!


 * __ Friday, November 23rd __** : ** IT IS TIME TO SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN PEOPLE! **
 * Have a great weekend! **




 * __Monday, November 5th to Thursday, November 8th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can contribute to the business through hard work and involvement
 * We can begin to make sales to the public (see below)
 * We can continue to develop the business plan
 * We can WORK TOGETHER for the SUCCESS of the business!!!!!!

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, November 5th to Thursday, November__** __8th:__ As you know, I am away this week and Ms. Funk will be in with you (YOU ARE SO LUCKY!!). There are a few things that you will want to look at this week and some reminders:


 * Ms. Funk and Mrs. Frey are here to help you out. They are good for advise but THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU!!
 * The Business Plan should be under way. I have already talked to the President and VPs about this. Again, please check out the "PeacTreats" Business Plan for examples on the different sections. There is also other business plans in the right hand, top drawer of my filing cabinet. You are welcome to them, but please put them back at the end of each period.
 * Who is putting up posters around the community????
 * Sales could definitely start this week. My suggestion is to hit up the people that are close to you (family, friends, etc.) because as it is your first few orders, they will understand that it is your first time getting your product out there. NOT SAYING that they shouldn't be perfect, but family can be a bit more understanding. MAKE THEM LOOK GOOD!!! GET YOUR FEET WET!!!
 * ALL orders need an ORDER FORM (no exceptions)
 * ALL orders need a RECEIPT (no exceptions)
 * ALL money must be handled by the VP of Finance. She must know where the money is going and the money MUST be returned to the vault at the end of each period. If it doesn't, she WILL hurt you!!! DON'T TEST HER!! :)
 * So far, we have one sponsor signed up, who is next????
 * Has anyone talked to Mr. Swanson about sending out the posters to the other principals in Prairie South? What do you want him to send? Your poster? other info? You get to decide but you need to communicate with him. Have you set up a meeting?

I hope you have an awesome week!! Work hard and enjoy the experience! It will be busy but it is YOUR company! At the end of this, YOU will be the one with all the REWARD!!!

Have a good one!!




 * __Monday, October 29th to Friday, November 2nd, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can contribute our $20 individual share to the VP of Finance by Tuesday
 * We can create a list for our first round of orders (product and supplies)
 * We can begin creating the first draft of our business plan
 * We can contribute to the success of the business by focusing on individual strengths of the members of our team (who will be working where?)
 * We can begin the first phase of marketing our product to the community through word of mouth, posters, and technology

__**Monday, October 29th to Friday, November 2nd**__: We have got A LOT to do over the next two weeks as we begin to start taking our business to the community. Here are some of the things we need to work on this week. We will add more to the list and scratch tasks off as we go:

1. Create a Motto for the company (remember PeakTreats: The "Peak" of all Treats"). Who will come up with a few? 2. Business Plan will need to begin to be worked on. President and VPs will need to talk to Mr. Young. 3. A supplies list will need to be created for our first round of orders. How much do we need to buy for the first round. 4. Marketing team will need to head out and talk to business about sponsorship (do you have your pitch ready for the businesses?) 5. VP of Finance and President will be going with Mr. Young to the Credit Union to change over the account to their names. 6. 7. 8.
 * BIG THING: ALL $20 TURNED INTO OUR VP OF FINANCE BY TUESDAY (That's the date you all set!)**

LET'S GET THIS LIST GOING!!!!!!!!

Business Plan for Cust-A Mug:

Click here to access the business plan (President and VPs need to do this) Link will be removed once


 * Also, as you are aware, I will not be with you guys at all next week (November 5-8th). I know you are all going to be very very very sad about that. ha ha ha! However, Ms. Funk will be in with you and as you know Mrs. Frey will be around to ask questions to. While I am away, it is important that you all do your best to get your tasks done. Your first board meeting will be taking place soon after the Remembrance Day long weekend. I don't know the specific date but hope to know this before the end of this week so that you can be prepared. This really will be your time to work as a business team. I encourage you all to keep communication open and everyone know what they need to be working on. I cannot wait to hear all about your progress when I get back on November 13th. This is kind of nerve wracking for me but like Travis has said before "Mr. Young, ZIP IT!!!" It's all you guys! Good Luck! I know you will do AWESOME! :)**

Have a great weekend!!!




 * __Monday, October 22nd to Friday, October 26th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can expand our business by gaining interior structure by adding a President and Vice-Presidents
 * We can begin breaking down our roles within our business (Marketing, Production, Finance, etc.)
 * We can begin to bring our $20 in for the share in our company
 * We can create a list for our first round of orders
 * We can examine the purpose and setup of a Business Plan

__**Monday, October 22nd**__: Hope you all had a great weekend! Today we are going to be breaking off into our groups, again, to have one last kick at creating a bank of logos, perfecting our order form, and creating business cards (Kitana and Bailey I will talk to you). I also want to talk to the crew about looking for corporate sponsors. We will then gather back as a class so this crew can talk to you about their idea.

Also, today is the last day to discuss about if you are interested in being the President for the company or VPs of the Company. By Wednesday, I would love to see these roles filled so that we can begin taking more structure to the business.

__**Tuesday, October 23rd**__: Come together as a group to see what we have now in our bank of materials. We will do a majority rules on this meeting. Would love to decide on the following:


 * Name for Business: **Cust-A-Mug (voted on Monday, October 22nd)**
 * Cost for Customer: 1 mug will be? 2 mugs will be? 3 mugs will be? (one group had a great idea)
 * Logo: Do we have one? What's the one we want to go with?
 * Posters: What looks good? What information do we need to have on it? Project the poster on the LCD projector so we can all see, close up!
 * Business Cards: What do we need to include on them?
 * Email account (who will create one?) DISCUSSION
 * Website (wikispace) / Facebook page / Twitter Account ??? Who will look into these?
 * All share money ($20) needs to be brought in by? You get to make the decision!
 * Charity of our Choice!

__**Wednesday, October 24th**__: ELECTION DAY for PRESIDENT AND VPs! Going back to what we looked at yesterday!


 * President: Travis Bittner, Brittany Melland **
 * VP of Marketing and Sales: Georgia Partridge, Nathan Corrin, **
 * VP of Finance: Megan Crone **
 * VP of Production: Maja Suzic, Travis Bittner **
 * VP of Human Resources: Tiaunna Young, Brittany Melland **

__**Thursday, October 25th**:__ Mr. McKinnon has invited us to a presentation in the auditorium dealing with a band that is trying to make their music their business! Good opportunity to look at things from a different angle when it comes to Entrepreneurship!

__**Friday, October 26th**:__ Today, we are going to be going over what a business plan is and how we will need to set one up for our business. President and VPs will need to pay attention as they are going to be working on this over the next little bit while the rest of us get things rolling. We will be using the PeacTreats Business Plan as a PRIME EXAMPLE of how to create one. We can use their business plan as a well established template to help us out with ours. The thing you have to remember about a business plan is that it is a beginning for the semester. It takes a while to complete one but once it is done, it is out of the way. We will be presenting our business plan to a number of guests that will join us for our initial board meeting in mid November. Here is a copy of PeacTreats business plan:



We will come back to this and MANY other things on Monday! Hope you have an AWESOME weekend!!!



__**Monday, October 15th to Friday, October 19th, 2012**__
 * __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
 * We can conduct Market Research to nail down who are target market will be for our products
 * We can identify the cost for a prototype for our chosen product and the the breakdown that will make that cost
 * We can examine the idea of profit and what is a reasonable cost for our product

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, October 15th__:** Hope you all had a great weekend!! Can't say the same for myself as I seem to have caught that flu that everyone is getting!! GRRR! Hope to be over it soon!

So, how did the weekend go with your products? Did you get some good ideas and feedback? What about costs?

Today, what I would like you to do is hold onto the feedback that you received from people, over the weekend. Today, I would like you to break off into teams of 2 or 3 and decide on an area of the school to go and talk to teachers and students. I will send out an email after I am done typing this to let the teachers know that you may stop into their classrooms to talk to themselves and their class. Remember, the more feedback we get and market research we do, the better it will be for us to sit down and make a product that everyone is after. That should take most of the period (as it is shortened classes). **REMEMBER, You are trying to sell this product to people and get them excited!! YOU BETTER BE ON YOUR "A GAME" WHEN YOU GO INTO THOSE CLASSROOMS!!!! BIG SMILES AND EXCITEMENT!!!**

Tomorrow, if i am still not there I will leave some discussion questions for you that you, as a group will have to go over and decide on.


 * Also, please look by my teacher station and pass out the letters for Wednesday's field trip to Regina and your permission slip that needs to be signed by your period 5 teacher!!! Letters need to go home to your parents, TONIGHT! **

__**Tuesday, October 16th**__: Chances are, I am probably not in class again! DARN flu!!! Today, what I want you to do is get into your BIG group, again, and start going over the market research you have compiled. Please feel free to use the computers to type up your notes, the whiteboard to help you out, or anything that you need from within the classroom.

First of all you will need someone to chair the meeting (up to you who you want) and someone to take some notes on what was said (writing or using computer is fine). I want you to go through these questions and discuss them based on your marked research from the last few days:

1. What was the overall impression of your product? How did people feel about it? 2. What kinds of constructive changes were mentioned that could be made to your product to make it better? 3. What was the cost that people mentioned the most per unit that they would spend? 4. What about buying in multiples? 2 for $15? 3 for $20? Did anyone hear someone say something that stood out? 5. What about a company name? Any ideas? probably should make a list. No decisions have to be made on that yet. (Miss Erickson?) 6. What about a logo for the company? Are any of the ones on the whiteboard good to use? How will you create it to go on your promotional material and business cards? Computer Art? Drawn and scanned into a computer?

Once you have finished your discussion you may break off into your mini groups again and continue to develop your areas.


 * Logo and Poster People** - Looking at suggestions from the group on what you could make for logos and posters
 * Order Form People** - Need to make an order form that is clear for our customer. I would suggest going online and looking at example order forms.
 * Product People** - Your job is to figure out how much it would cost to start up our company. Based on all of the supplies that you bought last week, and thinking about how much product your want to start off with in our company. How much product do you think we need to have on hand for us to start up our business? Based on that how much to you think each member (all of us in the company) need to contribute to start up. This will be the amount that each of us has to bring in in order to own a piece of the company? It is up to you to figure out how much we each should bring in.

__**Wednesday, October 17th**__: ** We are off to Regina today at 11:30 for the Junior Achievement kick off! We will be back to the school by 3:45 pm! **

__**Thursday, October 18th and Friday, October 19th**__: During these classes we will be finalizing product line and deciding who is going to be our President and VPs of the different areas within our company. We will also be deciding how much, per person, will we be putting into the company and when that money will be due by. The more quick we get that money in the more time and money you have on creating a product line for potential customers. We will also be looking at the following to finalize:


 * Company Name
 * Logo
 * Order Form
 * Business Cards
 * Posters (and other media)

Next week, we will be starting to look at the development of our product and go over what a business plan is, as you need to have one in order to sell your business to others.

Have a great weekend!

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 * __Tuesday, October 9th to Friday, October 12th, 2012__**
 * __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
 * We can conduct Market Research to nail down who are target market will be for our products
 * We can identify the cost for a prototype for our chosen product and the the breakdown that will make that cost
 * We can examine the idea of profit and what is a reasonable cost for our product

__**How we will learn it**__: __**Tueday, October 9th**__: Welcome back to your short work week. I hope you all had a great long weekend and lots of Turkey! Today, we are going to be debriefing about your presentations from last week. We still have 2 presentations left to go (Brandon, Kyril and Rebecca). Once they have completed their presentations we will look at the following questions as a class:


 * 1. What went well in your presentation?**
 * 2. What could have gone better?**
 * 3. Did you feel prepared to answer the questions that the judges asked?**
 * 4. Was their a product that stood out as one that tweaked your interest as one that we could sell for our business?**

Today, as well, we are going to be taking a look at some of the positions within the company that will up for you to decide. Some of the titles include President, Vice-President, etc. We will go through each of these roles, using the Junior Achievement handbook and over the course of the next couple of days, we will decide or vote on who will be taking on these roles within the company.

Some of the topics we will be looking at when it comes to YOUR company, will be the following:

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 this week and we 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 Katherine said when she was here, 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. There are some questions that we need to answer before we can go ahead with your chosen product. Please feel free to take the document and use it however you wish. You can change it to fit Here are some copies for you:



> Again, HE WILL be paid back!!!!! :)
 * 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:
 * 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. **CONTACTS -** Now is the time to start thinking about WHO you know and WHO you can go and talk to about your products. Once we have an idea nailed down, you are definitely going to want to go and use those contacts to see how you can use them in some way. WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT COULD HELP US OUT WITH DIFFERENT AREAS SUCH AS MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION? The more opportunities to get your product out there, the better!!!


 * 5. Junior Achievement Workshop on Wednesday, October 17th in Regina ** ** (12:00pm - 3:00pm) ** - Just some advanced notice that next Wednesday, we will be travelling to attend the JA Kick Off Workshop. Click Here for the link to the JA Wiki that describes the workshop.

Also, before the end of the week, I will be handing out your permission forms to attend next Wednesday's workshop. It is your responsibility to get the signatures you will need for period 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:





__**Wednesday, October 10th to Friday, October 12th**__: For the rest of this week we are definitely going to have a product idea nailed down, and hopefully a ton of market research completed so that we can start focusing on the start of the inner workings of the company, next week. This will also include initial start up costs (how much each person will have to invest into the company so that they have a share. Without this share you CANNOT get paid at the end of the semester and it MUST come from your pocket.

Next week, we will be taking a look at the roles that each person will play in our company and begin looking at the business plan.

Have a great weekend!!




 * __Monday, October 1st to Friday, October 5th, 2012__**
 * __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

__**Monday, October 1st to Thursday, October 4th**__: The day has been set!! This **Friday, October 5th** the Dragons are COMING!!! That's right, during Friday's class we will have a number of individuals coming to view the products that you have designed from scratch! You have the questions that you need to be researching, you have the the opportunity to design and do a ton of market research on your product! By the end of these four classes, your presentations need to be ready to go!!

Mrs. Frey will not be with us on Thursday or Friday, this week. However, if you ask her, she would love to help you out by looking at your product and even hearing what you have of your presentation. Miss Erickson has also volunteered her services to help you out, if you are in need of it, and I know Ms. Rowe (if you can track her down) would definitely give you a hand in market research.

The time if yours to make it PERFECT!! :)

__**Friday, October 5th**__: **Presentations are due! The Dragons are HERE!! Let's have some fun!!**

Have a great long weekend!! Eat lots of Turkey!!




 * __Monday, September 24th to Friday, September 28th, 2012__**
 * __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**__
 * __Monday, September 24th__:** As there was a lot of us away on Friday, we will be going downtown today. Moose Jaw is filled with independent businesses that have tons of products to buy. Is there a chance that by exploring, within our backyard, we could come up with an idea that we could use to create a business? I guess we won't know until we get out there. Our job is to keep a list (on our phones or on paper) of the products we see that COULD HAVE potential, as a small business.

__**Tuesday, September 25th**__: Today we will spend some time debriefing about our experience downtown. What did you find in your travels? After we have talked about our experience we are going to begin working on choosing one of our products, from out lists, and creating a presentationthat you are going to "pitch" to a group of "Dragons". We will go over the the handout below and you will be given the rest of today, Thursday, and Friday to get everything ready for your presentations. On Monday or Tuesday, next week (depending on when the Dragons' can come to see us.



__**Wednesday, September 26th**__: ** We are very pleased to welcome Catherine Gagne, from Junior Achievement, to tell us more about the Junior Achievement program and talk to us about the business we will be starting as the next few weeks progress! **

__**Thursday, September 27th and Friday, September**__ **__28th__:** Today and tomorrow, you will be given time to start putting together your presentations for the "Pitch Your Product" presentation. I will know when the Dragons' will be showing up so we should be able to set the due date during these classes. Please remember to look at the guiding questions in the handout from Tuesday. If you need to leave the class during this time to work on your presentations, build your prototype, you will be allowed to! (don't abuse the privilege!!!)

Have a great weekend!!



__**What are we learning?**__
 * __Monday, September 17th to Friday, September 21st, 2012__**
 * 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**__ __**Monday, September**__ **__17th__:** ** As per last week's SUCCESSFUL LEMONADE SALE, you received today's period off as you worked on it over the noon hour. Hope you enjoyed your "extra lunch time"! **


 * __Tuesday, September 18th__:** Today, we debriefed about our Lemonade Sale experience, and you were given time to work on your journal entries for this venture (please refer to last week's handout for questions to be answered in journal response). Please be as honest as you wish. It will only be me reading them.

__**Wednesday, September 19th and Thursday, September 20th**__: For Wednesday and Thursday's classes, we are going to be looking at the "Big Idea" when it comes to focusing in on a product, that we could sell within our community. When it comes to the "Big Idea" sometimes the best idea can be the smallest one, that grows into something much bigger. Over the next little bit, it is going to be up to YOU, and a partner, to come up with an idea for a product that you could produce, and sell! Don't think too much about the "creating" part right now. For the moment, let's concentrate on looking at a bunch of different ideas, and finding out if we could create them or not. I would like you to definitely focus on using the internet as a tool to help you out in this process (websites, YouTube).

__**Friday, September 21st**__: Today, we are going to be getting out of the classroom and going on a trip downtown. Moose Jaw is filled with independent businesses that have tons of products to buy. Is there a chance that by exploring, within our backyard, we could come up with an idea that we could use to create a business? I guess we won't know until we get out there. Our job is to keep a list (on our phones or on paper) of the products we see that COULD HAVE potential, as a small business.

On Monday, we will gather together and start making these BIG IDEAS into a sort of reality!!!

Have a great weekend!

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__**Monday, September 10th to Friday, September 14th, 2012**__


 * __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


 * __How we will learn it?__**


 * __Monday, September 10th__**: Today we will finish up our last Dragons' Den episode and then we will be moving into our first project, as a class.


 * 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. 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! We will be getting into 2 groups to work on this project.




 * __Tuesday, September 11th to Friday, September 14th__**: For these classes, 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!

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__ **Tuesday, September 4th to Friday, September 7th, 2012** __ __ **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 analyze how Entrepreneurs have created success for themselves
 * We can analyze how Entrepreneurs have faced challenges within their success
 * We can discover the BIG IDEA when it comes to being an Entrepreneur within our society

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

__**Tuesday, September 4th**__: 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!

__**Wednesday, September 5th to Friday, September 7th**__: Today, we are going to be looking at what it takes to be an Entrepreneur within our society. A few years ago a show called Dragon's Den worked it's way onto TV and became and Entrepreneurs dream! 5 successful CANADIAN entrepreneurs would judge up and coming ventures and see if they would like to invest their own money into a beginning business. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes up in flames.

As we watch a number of these episodes there are some guiding questions I want you to think about:


 * How do the presenters handle themselves when it comes to promoting their products to the Dragons?
 * How well do they know their product?
 * What qualities make the presenters good Entrepreneurs?
 * What do you notice about their style of dress when presenting their product?
 * What qualities would hinder them from being successful as an Entrepreneur?
 * How do they respond to the Dragons when questioned about their product?

__The Road to Riches Episode__:
 * Where did the Dragon's come from? What was their childhood look like?
 * What obstacles did they face within their lives?
 * How did they handle those obstacles?
 * What is one word that describes the Dragon as an Successful Entrepreneur? Why did you pick that word?

Click Here to view Dragon's Den Student Episode

[|Click Here] to view to Dragon's Den Road to Riches

Click here to watch a typical episode of Dragon's Den

Oh, by the way, next week, you start selling! Have a great weekend! media type="youtube" key="-qTIGg3I5y8" height="315" width="560"