By Levi Livengood Student-run Junior Achievement companies are starting back up again at Independence. Two economics classes, taught by Ms. Zausch in C-312, have created two companies, Cloud Circuit in first period, Sip2Sip in second. They sell phone charger bracelets wrapped in multiple different colors of paracord, and metal straws designed to eliminate plastic waste respectively.
Both have launched their IPOs (Initial Public Offering) and gathered enough funds to begin production. On March 14, both Cloud Circuit and Sip2Sip sold their first products. “Junior Achievement is a one-hundred-year-old organization whose mission is to promote economic success for students in grades K-12. Among the many programs Junior Achievement offers, the company project is designed to expose students to become an entrepreneur,” says Ms. Zausch, quoting the Junior Achievement North California website. Ms. Zausch, who was a student in Junior Achievement herself, has taught it for the past fourteen years. “As far as I know, no one else in this district. There are several in East Bay, San Francisco, and there is Branham High School in San Jose,” she says. Senior Oliver Nguyen, who is also the President of Cloud Circuit, says, “Our product is the Clouger. It is a paracord charging cable bracelet. It’s available for both IOS devices and it works for devices that use Micro USB.” “The expectation is that students develop and apply the professional skills needed in the 21st-century workforce. They learn skills like teamwork despite their personal differences, finance management, networking with local businesses and community organizations, entrepreneur and innovation planning, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics),” says Ms. Zausch.
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