Upper Primary Business Fair
This Saturday, the 17th of June!
A Children’s Business Fair instills leadership, courage, perseverance, and responsibility into young hearts and minds. This is a great opportunity for parents and mentors to spend quality time with their children.
We desire this to be a fun event with many opportunities to learn and grow and that the child entrepreneur be given full ownership and responsibility of the project.
Dear Parents,
As you may have already heard, upper primary classes have started small businesses in small groups!
They will be selling their products or services on 17th June at Camp Kigali at our end-of-year event. We are running our first-ever Acton Children's Business Fair.
Classes involved: CE2 Ms. Claudine, CE2 M. Bonfils, CM1 (Ms. Pamela/Grace), CM2 M. Adelard, Years 4, 5, 6, and 7.
As Discovery prepares for our first children’s business fair, we want to reiterate that each child has a gift that can change the world in a profound way.
We hope we can help your child continue to learn that they can do hard things, be accountable, and, most importantly, find their calling in life that will help them change the world.
Thank you again for being a part of this remarkable event! Please see the remainder of this document for details outlining your role as parents, some rules, and other information.
Invite family and friends by sharing this link to the Discovery Business Fair site!
https://www.childrensbusinessfair.org/rwanda
Sincerely,
The Discovery International School Team
Guidelines for Parents and Guardians
Parents of younger children may sit in their booth, but the children are to be responsible for the setup, sales and interacting with the customers.
This event is designed to give children a taste of selling a product. Please let them have that experience.
Any parent seen selling to the customer or promoting the child’s product will result in disqualification from the competition.
Five “Smooth Stones” – Principles to Keep in Mind
Wonder: There are so many opportunities. Allow your child the gift of wonder. Ask open-ended questions.
Industriousness: Allow your child the gift of seeing the fruit of hard work.
Responsibility: Treat your child as the sole owner. Let the child make the plans and the decisions as much as possible.
Encouragement: Provide encouraging communication.
Enthusiasm: Provide passion for the Children’s Business Fair.
Five Warnings
Parents tend to make children’s events too stressful. What is needed from parents are clear boundaries and backstage organization. Then, let the children flourish. This is not about you, it is about the child.
Parents can make children’s events too complicated. This is not Shark Tank or a business plan competition. You do not need business plans with five-year projections.
Parents tend to get ahead of their children in passion. There is great value in your child not getting everything done in time. This will help them learn. Make sure they create a product or service they are excited about. Remember the parental adage that “there is blessing in a skinned knee.”
Parents tend to get ahead of children in competitiveness. Your role is not to be Elon Musk, a business school professor, or a venture capitalist.
Parents tend to rob children of the joy of hard work. Do not do the work for the children. If the product or service looks messy, that is ok; in fact, that is great! Encourage your children to make a good product or service, but never take the role of a business board, manager, or owner. Do not rob the work environment of joy by prodding or criticizing. Your child is Chairman, CEO, and owner. Let your child be those things.
To understand more about why it is important to inspire entrepreneurship in children, please click here and read about
THE 3 MAGIC SEEDS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP BY JEFF SANDEFER
Other guidelines
All entries will be automatically entered in the business competition, and booths will be judged on a variety of criteria, including most original business idea, highest business potential, and best presentation/creativity.
Cash prizes of RWF 50,000 per category and age group (to be split among the business owners) will be presented at the conclusion of the fair.
Some of the Businesses Under Development
Year 4
Galaxy Donuts - various flavored donutholes
Luxury in a Jar - sugar scrub
Bookmarks and bracelets
CE2 Ms. Claudine
Beignets, Limonade, Pop corn, Barbe à papa, T-shirt, Bijoux, Dessins, peinture
CE2 Mr. Bonfils
Groupe 1: Gwiza, Lenzie et Noah (Cookies et smoothies)
Groupe 2: Jordane, Rama et Enzo (Crêpes et Goffres)
Groupe 3: Shami, Michaël et Nathan ( Jus de citron et gâteau au citron)
Groupe 4: Kian, Dante, Levi et Caleb (Jus de fruits -mangue et pomme)
CM1 (Ms. Pamela & Ms. Grace)
Les Boss: Keiko, Nolan, Jessy, Ramya B. : Croque Madame et Limonades
DAKE: Kenan, Enzo, Daniel, Axel : Sandwiches, Dessins et Boissons
Quick: Elsa et Danika : Chocolat chaud et Crêpes au chocolat
Les ailes du ciels: Etia, Jasmine et Michaela : Différents types de sandwiches (végétariens, a la viande etc.) et Jus
RIC: Ganza Ryan, Ian Dave et Conrad : Croque-monsieur et jus naturel
Sweet Queen : Brochettes de fruits, brochettes d'Amuse-gueule et Boulettes
CM2 M. Adelard
Groupe1: Koen - Gianna - Ramya M.: Girako Coffee: coffee, teas, Chocolates, smoothies:
Groupe 2: Lycia - Elvira - Fonzie: patisserie: crepes - cupcakes - sandwitches - burgers - waffles - fries
Groupe 3: Medy - Irebe - Jeremy: Smoothies and cold beverages
Years 6 and 7
Bouncing Fun; 1 bouncing castle; capacity: 20 kids in 10 minutes:
Selling drawings; 12 frames,12 drawings;
Chocolate cupcakes; 48 cupcakes
35 table mats
9 key chains
20 bracelets
20 loaves bread
Jam (30 - 40 jars)
Popcorn
Year 6 and Year 7
Joel's Piggy banks; 20 piggy banks
Chris's cupcakes; 50 cupcakes
Yan's bakery; a cake
Paper fans for all; 50 fans
Elvis' cakes, healthy forever; 3 big cakes
Rules & Guidelines for Judges
Two judges per age category will walk around the event to judge the various businesses on the following categories:
Most Original Business Idea
Highest Business Potential
Best Presentation / Creativity
Remember to invite family and friends by sharing this link to the Discovery Business Fair site!
https://www.childrensbusinessfair.org/rwanda