Holladay Rotary Picks Punk Pop

Here's an exciting Vocational Service project story submitted by Sue Vanderhoof of Holladay Rotary Club:

Weilenmann School of Discovery in Salt Lake City has a program which invites 6^th, 7^th &  8^th graders to participate in an Entrepreneurial Business Venture by creating, marketing and selling handmade items at a school-sponsored “Market Day” held three times throughout the school year!  All prospective participants are required to submit an application and a business plan for review from which 15 student vendors are selected to “set up shop” and sell their products to the school community.   

When Holladay Rotary became aware of this program, members immediately recognized it as a wonderful vocational service opportunity for Rotarians to mentor young entrepreneurs.  Teresa Criscione, Market Day coordinator for the PTA, welcomed our involvement! 

Five Holladay Rotarians were involved with the first Market Day in September.  We met with each student vendor, evaluated their product for creativity, presentation, pricing & marketability, advertising & signage and asked each student questions about simple business concepts.  Overwhelmingly, we were impressed that at such a young age, these students had put so much thought into the development of their products and were so enthusiastic about answering our questions and learning from our input. It was a great experience and a great day! 

Rotary’s involvement in this program is still developing and we are excited to be able to share this vocational opportunity with the students at Weilenmann School of Discovery.          

Holladay Rotary’s choice and Weilenmann’s actual Entrepreneur of the Day was Punk Pop!