March 21, 2014 [7]
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Redmond High juniors win Teen CEO Business Competition
kind of activities do you want to do there? Vision statement for Downtown Park — do you agree, or have another idea? On Feb. 19, more than 40 community members at-
tended a workshop and told city officials what they want to see in the park. For more information, contact Betty Sanders at (425) 556-2328 or bbsanders@redmond.gov.
City asking for Downtown Park design ideas The City of Redmond is seeking candidates to “claim their stake in the Downtown Park” and give their feedback on design ideas. Available through April 11, community members can log onto the city website at www.redmond.gov and download a “workbook” that will walk them through a user-friendly format designed to help them supply ideas. The workbook discussion points will focus on gaining the public’s feedback on the following topics: Look and character of Downtown Park — trendy or traditional? Programming — what
Teen CEO Business Competition winners, from left, Patrick Beighle and Sidney Counts. Courtesy photo
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Levi Fussell (senior, Eastlake High School) Black Cat Creations, Gayle Lunsford (senior, Emerson High School) Boat Waxing and Cleaning, Josh Guempel (senior, Juanita High School) Team I Fix It, Saleh Hasnawi (senior, Juanita High School) Vidrohi Yoga, Noah Fowler, (senior, Emerson High School) The Teen CEO event would not have been possible without local businesses and individuals donating cash awards. These businesses and individuals include: Passport Unlimited, Benefit Solutions, Human Point, Krueger Beck PLLC, Livengood, Fitzgerald and Alskog, One Eighty, Shinstrom and Norman, Ice Chips Candy, Smead, Scott Becker, Sally Otten, Tom Neir and Shannon Jurdana. The Kirkland Kiwanis is the fiscal agent for Teen CEO. Reign Labs created the Teen CEO website.
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The goal is to help the public to see which vendors are trustworthy and which ones are scams. Third place was awarded to Midzy owner and STEM High School sophomore Anthony Humay. He received a cash award of $800. Midzy is an online platform of polls where users can create, answer or search a user-created database of questions and statistics from around the world. Juanita High School senior Joe Buhl was given an award for being most inspirational for his business, Joe’s Dog Service. He received a cash award of $200. Joe walks between two and 12 dogs per week to the dog park where he lets them play off leash. The remaining businesses were given an honorable mention and each business received a cash award of $200 to be used to further develop their business: Quark Down Games,
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Last May, Redmond High School sophomores Patrick Beighle and Sidney Counts decided to make their business idea come to life. On Sept. 14, they started selling pocket T-shirts and broke even on their investment within a week. Within three weeks, they had doubled their investment and by week five, they had developed a website and sold their first products via the site. “Hardwood Tees is a specialty shirt company centered on making cool designs for a cheap and affordable price,” according to the co-owners. They currently sell pocket T-shirts with more than 18 styles of pocket patterns to choose from. With everything from wood-themed pockets, to pockets with cats on them, their company’s goal is to be trendy and humorous. Last Saturday, Beighle and Counts helped their
ethic, display resiliency, create a strong business plan and become involved in their local community. Eleven students participated in Teen CEO. To be eligible students needed to have an existing business. Each project team was able to present to a team of judges that included Roger Blier, CEO, Passport Unlimited; Walt Krueger, partner, Krueger Beck, PLLC; Shannon Jurdana, president and CEO, Benefit Solutions, Inc.; and Charlotte Clary and Bev Vines-Haines, founders of Ice Chips Candy (as seen on ABC’s television show, “Shark Tank”). Second place was awarded to BitTrust coowners and International Community School seniors, Dylan Steele and Anwell Wang. They received a cash award of $1,000. BitTrust is a website where users can write reviews and give ratings for stores that accept digital money (or “bits”).
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company to make another huge advance. They won Lake Washington School District’s firstever Teen CEO Business Competition and received a $2,200 cash award to be used toward their business along with sharing the title of Teen CEO. In their application, the juniors said they would use the money to purchase raw goods and
to develop their website. They have also thought about organizing a photo shoot to better display their products and possibly will sponsor parties or concerts for the local teen community to get their company name out to their target audience, people between the ages of 12-25. “Our main goal in creating this company was to do something fun and create products we love, but now with the money we are making and the potential money from this honorarium, we have realized the places we can go with this idea,” the Teen CEOs said in their business plan application. The purpose of the Teen CEO business competition is to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their entrepreneurial skills, think creatively, problem-solve, work collaboratively, assume personal responsibility, exhibit a strong work
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