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BUFF TUFF - A School BaseD Enterprise of PVHS
BUFF TUFF - A School BaseD Enterprise of PVHS
The Buff Tuff Shirts and More Shop, is an entrepreneurial experience for Business students at Prairie View High School. Classes that utilize the BUFF TUFF shop as part of their hands-on learning include Entrepreneurship, Business Management, and Applied Business Development (these are technical and application level classes in the CTE- Business Management pathway).
In these classes students learn about the entrepreneurial, management, and application processes involved in running a business and then put them into action by working with clients, creating new ideas and products for sale, marketing those items, and meeting supply and demand needs, while also maintaining profitable margins.
Profits made from our shop go back into the business for exploring new ideas and methods while also supporting FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) competitions and conferences for PVHS members.
We appreciate you considering us for your spirit and custom apparel needs, not just for the financial gain and opportunity to add to our shop, but even more so for the learning experiences you provide for our students at Prairie View High School.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO?
WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO?
3/2/21 "What do you guys do?" This question comes up time to time from students, teachers, and community members about our shirt shop. We offer many products and services, but ultimately we are a student/school based enterprise designed to help students learn about business management by actually running a business. The BUFF TUFF Shirts and More Shop, is the vehicle that helps us get there.
Students in this class create designs, meet client demands, purchase materials and work with financial statements, produce items for sale, and so much more. Adding our website this school year has allowed us to reach customers easier than before, as well as maintain COVID protocols. It has added a deeper level of learning that we did not fully anticipate. Learning how to make items visually appealing on a screen can be difficult. It is also difficult to keep up with accurate inventory counts, and maintain an up-to-date site, so people want to visit it. We have come a long way, and have even further to go, but it has been a fun journey so far.
Just for a little perspective, below you will see our illustration of "THE EVOLUTION OF A SHIRT". One of the most common things our students do is make custom shirts for our customers. That may sound simple to some, but it is a lot of hard work. The satisfaction that comes from a completed job, done well, is worth it all!
Maybe you have an idea for how we can add to our shop or enhance learning for our students... if so, email us at bufftuff@pv362.org
STEPS 1, 2, & 3:
1) Students are hand-bleaching some t-shirts. Gloves were worn to protect hands and special clothing to prevent bleaching their personal clothes.
After the bleaching process happens, shirts must be thoroughly 2) rinsed and 3) dried.
STEPS 4, 5, & 6:
4) Prior to this picture being taken, a student uploaded our personally created images into Cricut Design Space and 5) allowed the Cricut machine to cut the images for our design.
6) Pictured: Students weeding the vinyl images that will eventually be pressed onto the shirt.
STEPS 7 & 8:
Our heat press pictured here, is how we adhere our heat transfer vinyl images to our apparel items. This press is typically set at 375 degrees. 7) Each shirt must be preheated for 20-30 seconds, and 8) then pressed with image for another 20-30 seconds. Time differs for each type of material being pressed.
STEP 9:
9) This is the "Anxiety Step". We have pressed the shirt, but now we must give the transfer a moment to cool before we can begin peeling off the clear layer. If you peel too soon, your image will come up with the clear layer. If you wait too long your clear layer will not want to come off. Timing is everything!
STEPS 10, 11, & 12:
Here is a completed shirt.
Whew!!! We timed everything right!
10) Now we must take pictures of the items for sale in a visually pleasing way and 11) come up with descriptions to go with the pictures on the website that will allow our customers to feel comfortable purchasing something they may not see in person, until after it has been paid for.
12) Then, everything gets added to the website.
Click on the HOME tab to see how we did with this step.
FBLA Participation
FBLA Participation
Students that take part in the BUFF TUFF Shop, also are expected to participate in FBLA - Future Business Leaders of America.
Spring of 2022 is the first time since the Fall of 2019, students have been able to meet and compete in various FBLA events, in person. Students from PVHS that competed this past weekend (April 1st, 2022) did very well. There were 2000 students taking part in various test/events and nearly 120 Kansas high schools represented at this State Leadership Conference.
District 1 Conference, January 2022 RESULTS:
Senior, Colby Garrettson
8th in Economics
8th in Organizational Leadership
10th in Personal Finance
Junior, Meadow Stainbrook
1st in Business Law
1st in Organizational Leadership
5th in Political Science
Junior, Jenna Thompson
9th in Business Calculations
10th in Business Communications
State Leadership Conference, March/April 2022 RESULTS:
Meadow Stainbrook - 6th Place - Business Law
Meadow Stainbrook - 5th Place - Political Science
Colby Garrettson and Rylee Boone - 8th Place - Business Management (team event)
Pictured below, left to right: Colby Garrettson, Rylee Boone, Jenna Thompson, and Meadow Stainbrook
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