Entrepreneurship classes get ready for carnival
Sophomore Krista Johnson prepares Chinese boxes for her booth.
Andrea Sessions, Reporter
November 2, 2009
Filed under News
Students taking Entrepreneurship will host a carnival Nov. 4. The fourth graders coming to the high school from Scott Elementary and Cambridge Elementary will participate in the activities.
The members of the class will set up their booths in the lower gym of the Belton High School. Each fourth grader will receive 20 raffle tickets to spend on the games they choose to play. One ticket is equivalent to one dollar.
Belton High School’s Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) and the Entrepreneurship classes will provide sponsorship for the carnival, Pirate Festival. Who said school couldn’t be fun?
The carnival consists of 18 different businesses. Ball Toss, Squirt O Rama, Jelly Fish Sea, Candy Forest, Bowl-A-Palloza, Golf Toss, Dino Dig, Xtreme Alley and Hoops will all take part in the event. Long Shot, The Lolli Walk, Lob 4 Lolipops, Tornado Twist, Tumbling Bottles, Rooster Slam, Pirate Pass, Well Well Well and Swish will also participate.
Students have been diligently working on the creation of their own business and the production of an original carnival game. They’ve learned how to consider the risks that come along with competition and how to limit them.
Business teacher Kara Lamfers said that the semester long project has many business concepts incorporated with it, “from the setup, to the location, to customer analysis and analyzing their competition.”
“They’re developing a business plan,” Lamfers said, “and from that, they are looking at all the aspects of a business.”
All of the booths are competing to accomplish the same overall goal. They want to receive the most tickets, while still having prizes left over at the end. If a booth runs out of prizes before the end of the carnival, they’ll have to shut their business down.
Sophomore Krista Johnson said that all of the booths are basically trying to make the most profit.
“We’ve been trying to make our booth the best and the most entertaining, so we can get customers,” Johnson said. “If it’s not fun, you’re not going to get customers.”
Senior Kelsey Pauley said that she thinks a game’s price, entertainment level and available prizes have the greatest effect on the success or failure of a business.
Pauley said the booths will all provide simple novelty toys, ordered from U.S. Toy. She also said each group has set different prices to play their game.
In the carnival, each business has many direct competitors and indirect competitors. To eliminate some of the competition, the businesses have looked for ways to differentiate their product or service from the rest of them.
Pauley said her business took a traditional game and made adjustments to it. She said her partner and her created a ball toss game.
“We changed it so it was more appropriate,” Pauley said.
Johnson’s group separated themselves from the other groups with their prizes. They ordered toys that specifically go with the theme of their business. These prizes also stand out from everyone else’s prizes.
“We’re providing mostly Japanese themed prizes,” Johnson said.
The carnival has been a long process, but it is coming up fast. Pauley said she is looking forward to watching all of the kids get excited when they win.
Johnson said she’s mostly looking forward to the carnival being done and over with.
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