The Marketing 12 Class participated in a program called: (Semester 1 Fall of 2011) 

A Student Venture! (JA COMPANY PROGRAM)

 EVENT on Monday, January 23, 2012 was a success with the local SPCA and WL Tribune in attendance.

View the WL Tribune newspaper article:

Check out the "paws it" Facebook page and or Twitter account for updates on the "small but mighty company".

AND

View the "paws it" story produced by Sam Numsen, Producer, Shaw TV Channel 10, Williams Lake, BC.

Click the YouTube link provided below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwnZmR9u6VE&list=UUB0aFr0NQwTUwgIDCh8g4dA&index=2&feature=plcp

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Hand over the keys to success.  A prosperous community and strong economy is in the hands of our future ENTREPRENEURS and LEADERS of well-managed companies.  A Student Venture Program will inspire high school students to understand the role of business in our society by creating an enterprise of their own.

By collaborating with professional volunteer consultants to design, organize & operate a real business, student's experience how a small enterprise functions.  This program is curriculum-linked, student centered and skill focused.  It is facilitated by qualified business volunteers in weekly sessions over the course of a 10 to 12 week program.  This program is being delivered at Columneetza in Semester One by a variety of community volunteers.

This is what paws it have been up to:

Identifying a business venture:

Considering a business opportunity:

Marketing, customers, competitors & suppliers, product pricing

Establish company values, set smart goals

Choose a company name------------------paws it

Develop a company mission statement

Buying & selling JA company shares

Calculate investor return on investment

Building the organization:

• • Consider the qualities of leadership required

  • Management Team Job Roles & Responsibilities

  • Conducting management, board & company meetings

  • Develop a buisness plan

  • Develop company financial statements

• Conducting Operations:

  • • Practicing good business

    • Selling the company product

    • Staying focused on succes

    • Strategies for achieving goals

    • Record keeping

    • Management report

    • Liquidation

    • Preparing a Final Report

• Wrap up
  

  • • Analyse the company experience

    • Discuss starting your own business