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SSHS club to sell phone charms tomorrow at the Street Market
Members of the Saipan Southern High School’s Junior Achievement program show off a sample of the phone charms that they will be selling at the Street Market this Thursday. (Dennis B. Chan)
Saipan Southern High School’s Junior Achievement program, an entrepreneurship club that teaches the practical experience of running a business, will be selling phone charms at the Street Market this Thursday.
The club has named their product company “Pacific Bauble.” According to adviser Jonathan Aguon, the club recently settled on phone charms as their competitive product for next year’s JA competition against Kagman High School.
The students are now working on the marketing side of the competition, he said.
At yesterday’s club meeting, students edited a commercial they shot for their phone charms.
“We practice our business skills, teamwork, preparation, and cooperation, and market strategies like targeting certain ages groups,” said club president Yvonne Indalecio.
Since her time in the club, she has learned that social awareness is important because in business, “if you don’t have a target demographic, you don’t have a purpose.”
She said that Commonwealth Development Authority’s Carline Sablan has been instrumental in getting their club going. Indalecio said Sablan “broke it down for us” and made us ask, “Is our product realistic?”
“If you make it appeal to a certain group, you have a focus. With that focus, you make the product. If you’re socially-aware, you can notice how some girls love pink things, love cute things…and go, ‘Alright, I’ll make a pink, cute product.”
The charms they are selling this Thursday came out of that social awareness, she said. “Everyone has phones too,” she said, and some people have earphone jacks that get “messed up” so charms can protect them.
“It’s perfect,” she added.
The charms are either rubber or metal and come in many different designs.
