Some very young entrepreneurs took over a wing of the Northwest Arkansas Mall Friday, trying to turn a profit with their first venture into business.
Thirty teams from nine middle schools peddled their wares for the 21st Annual World Trade Expo.
The entrepreneurial education program is put on by John Brown University's Enactus, and aims to teach young people what it takes to build a small business.
Ethan Horton and his friends aren't old enough to grow facial hair, but they can certainly cut them out of felt.
"My store is called le mustache," he says. "We have handlebar mustaches, large and small, we have Pringles mustaches."
Estefania Verdin, marketing officer for Enactus, says the students started working on business plans more than a month ago.
"Prior to this, they get like design classes, accounting classes," she says. "That's the base for the business plan that they're making."
She says the profits are theirs to keep.
"They're spending their money making all of this stuff," Verdin says. "They have to get some profits out of it, it's just a way of encouraging them."
Horton says his mustaches are selling, but he's not sold on the idea of owning a business.
"I don't know, this was awfully uh awfully stressful to get done," he says. "I might have to think before doing something like this again."
Thirty teams from nine middle schools peddled their wares for the 21st Annual World Trade Expo.
The entrepreneurial education program is put on by John Brown University's Enactus, and aims to teach young people what it takes to build a small business.
Ethan Horton and his friends aren't old enough to grow facial hair, but they can certainly cut them out of felt.
"My store is called le mustache," he says. "We have handlebar mustaches, large and small, we have Pringles mustaches."
Estefania Verdin, marketing officer for Enactus, says the students started working on business plans more than a month ago.
"Prior to this, they get like design classes, accounting classes," she says. "That's the base for the business plan that they're making."
She says the profits are theirs to keep.
"They're spending their money making all of this stuff," Verdin says. "They have to get some profits out of it, it's just a way of encouraging them."
Horton says his mustaches are selling, but he's not sold on the idea of owning a business.
"I don't know, this was awfully uh awfully stressful to get done," he says. "I might have to think before doing something like this again."
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