Commerce students help kids 'Break into Business'

Queen’s School of Business is buzzing with young entrepreneurs this week. A new camp, founded by two enterprising BCom students, teaches the fundamentals of business to kids with an entrepreneurial spirit.

“Break into Business” is a daycamp designed by Monica Walker and Alyssa Richard, both recent BCom grads, for students in grades four to eight.

Ali tenHove, an 11-year-old camper from Winston Churchill Public School, says Break into Business is like an adventure camp and a business camp at the same time.

Over the course of each week-long session, campers develop a business idea, a budget and a marketing plan before launching their business. The final day serves as an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned and also a chance to communicate their successes to parents via PowerPoint presentation.

Ali’s team, the Sweet 7s, came up with the idea of running a pizza and snack stand to cater to construction workers currently working on the Queen’s campus. For $3 customers got a slice of pizza, a cookie and a pop. “The construction workers were happy to get it because they were hungry.”

Ali, who aspires to a career wind-testing big buildings like her grandpa, says that business camp showed her all the potential paths that she could take with her career.

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