Vol. 81, No. 49
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Friday, December 3, 2021
I am GR AT E F U L and THANKFUL for you – all my clients and customer s– past, present and future!
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Syosset HS students win “Design for Delight” business competition
Town kicks off Small Business Saturday with business event BY RIKKI MASSAND
Syosset High School students who created Snack 'N Board, a candy charcuterie. Snack ‘N Board, a virtual business created by students of the Virtual Enterprises (VE) program at Syosset High School, was selected as the winner of the national Design for Delight competition, VE has announced. Design for Delight (D4D) Competition is a bi-annual competition held in conjunction with Intuit in which VE students utilize D4D’s core principles of deep customer empathy, creativity and collaboration, and rapid experimentation in business problem-solving. Over 98 VE businesses competed in the event. For the past two months, Syosset High School students created and have been operating Snack ‘N Board, a vir-
tual company specializing in candy charcuterie. The students developed Snack ‘N Board as part of the year-long VE program, which teaches students how to start and run a virtual business together as a class. The D4D competition required students to conduct an oral presentation and provide supporting materials to judges addressing the company’s design thinking process. Judges then graded them on their leadership skills, demonstration of entrepreneurship, collaboration efforts, creative problem solving, research and analysis, use of technology and more.
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Small Business Saturday, this year, celebrated on November 26, was not a one-off but instead a kickoff event across Long Island. The Nassau County Council of Chambers of Commerce, together with invitees and civic leaders from the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, the Long Island Main Street Alliance, the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; local business groups such as the Syosset Woodbury Chamber and the Chambers of Massapequa, Franklin Square, Hempstead, gathered in Massapequa Park on Small Business Saturday, November 26. A joint chambers and organizations’ press conference, in front
of local Park Avenue business Friends for Life Home Care, announced the official start to “Small Business Season 2021” lasting from the Thanksgiving weekend with Black Friday through the end of December. Earlier on Small Business Saturday, Vision Long Island gathered with officials in Huntington and the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce with State Assemblyman Keith Brown, Town of Huntington Supervisor Chad Lupinacci and Supervisor-elect Ed Smyth. The collective message spread on both the north shore and south shore was “to remind folks the importance of keeping our shopping dollars local.” Several examples of children and teens who grew See page 10
Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, third from left, met with small business owners to kick off Small Business Saturday sales.
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