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Young entrepreneurs to showcase products at trade fair
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Posted on Mar 23 2012
Young entrepreneurs from all five CNMI public high schools (including Rota and Tinian) are inviting all community members to a trade fair where the student companies will be showcasing a wide variety of student-designed products for sale.
The trade fair, which will take place next Thursday, March 29, 2012 (6pm to 9pm), at the Thursday Night Street Market, is part of a series of activities sponsored by the Junior Achievement Program, which was relaunched last year through a collaboration between the Commonwealth Development Authority and the Public School System with support from the Northern Marianas College.
The JA Company Program helps prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.
“More than any other program, the JA Program allows students to gain first-hand experience in establishing, running, and promoting a business,” said Galvin Deleon Guerrero, member of the Board of Education and director of Institutional Effectiveness at the Northern Marianas College. “For the several weeks now, these students have been hard at work in making sure their companies-and their products-stand out at next week’s trade fair.”
The student companies, composed of students from Marianas High School, Saipan Southern High School, Kagman High School, Dr. Rita H. Inos Jr/Sr High School (Rota), and Tinian Jr/Sr High School, have been working with community and business leaders who have been volunteering their time to guide the students as they create and market different products.
The students’ activities and efforts will culminate during a banquet where student companies will be recognized with a number of JA awards, including product of the year, company officers of the year, and company of the year.
For more information about the CNMI JA Company Program, and to see how you can support the program, contact Frances Ulloa at frances.ulloa@cnmipss.org or Galvin Deleon Guerrero at galvin@itecnmi.com. (NMC)
