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FTCC hosts Youth Entrepreneur Camp for ambitious youngsters
by DR. SHANESSA FENNER
Fayetteville Technical Community College's
Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Small Business, along with Wells Fargo, pres-
ents the 2018 Youth Entrepreneurship Camp.
It is set for Monday, July 30, through Friday,
Aug. 3, from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. on the campus of
FTCC. Friday's schedule is 8:30 a.m.-noon. The
camp is open to rising seventh- through ninth-
graders who are interested in future business
and entrepreneurship goals.
"This will be the ninth or 10th year of hav-
ing rising seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders
for five days – and it is a fun camp – but they
actually learn something in the process,"
said Kent Hill, FTCC director of the Center
for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Small
Business. "We have a lot of simulations and
games, and the students come up with a team
business plan or an individual project in
which they will compete."
Successful entrepreneurs will speak to the
students and share their insights about their
journey with their businesses. "We have a lot of
young guest entrepreneurs and they will speak to
the students," said Hill. "We have a young man from
Athens, Georgia, who is building a really big busi-
ness, and he is a freshman in high school."
Hill added they have had young people take hob-
bies and monetize them into income streams to
help pay for things they want or to save for college.
"We have had the most awesome support from
Wells Fargo, and it is not just financial support, it
is their involvement," said Hill. "One of the things
the kids do in their teams is to pitch their elevator
speeches to get funding from Wells Fargo bankers."
Hill added there is a panel of Wells Fargo bankers
who gently coach the students. He said it is a blast
to watch the students in action.
"Some of the students who are goofing off get in
front of the bankers and get really serious and
are really focused," said Hill. "They are pretty
good salespeople when money is involved, and
that is a pretty good motivator."
"We also have some fun games and competi-
tions, and they will compete for prizes," said
Hill. "We are doing something different this
year in which the students will tie-dye their
own camp T-shirt."
Hill added the students will also tie-dye addi-
tional shirts that they can sell. They will have to
buy them from FTCC and sell them for a profit.
"We try to feed them a dozen or more poten-
tial businesses that they can reasonably operate
in school profitably as a student, legally," said
Hill. "We really want this to be meaningful and
want these young people to go out and say they
have some alternatives."
Applications can be found online at www.
facebook.com/FTCCSmallBusinessCenter or at
http://tiny.cc/ftccsbc. The camp fee is $52 and
is due by July 20. It includes a camp T-shirt and
lunch Monday through Thursday.
For more information, contact Hill at
910-678-8462.
e five-day camp is for rising seventh- eighth- and ninth-graders.
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash.
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