St. Mary eighth-grade students cooked up their best ideas and pitched a group of local business entrepreneurs this week in the first Future CEO Competition for the school.
Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
St. Mary eighth-grade students cooked up their best ideas and pitched a group of local business entrepreneurs this week in the first Future CEO Competition for the school. All judges brought their own background to the competition and ranged from retail, technology, finance and more. Each judge was given a rubric to topics to evaluate the presentations and charged with the task of giving pointers to each group to help better their knowledge of business for the future.
Business groups presented the pitches for: AMO Salsa: The perfect salsa by Marcus Rowan, Andrew Ryan and Oliver Galeazzo; The Grape Slicing Co.: A grape slicer to make eating grapes safer for young children by Andrew Svoboda, Evan Galeazzo, Will Eppich and Adam Rababy; Totally Guacamole: The best guacumole by Cece Richardson, Shea Finger, Augie Rosace and Quentin Fedak;
Crypto Cafe: Homemade food that you can buy with crypto-coins by Gabe Virant, Elli Daugherty and Victoria Kowalski; Hydro Energy by Kyle Yates, Ethan McCaskey and Ashton Gotham; and the winners – The Scoop: An ice cream scoop that heats up to make scooping ice cream easier by Isabella Cerimele, Faith Tomsick and Mikala Payne.
Winners will be traveling to St. Ignatius on April 29 to compete against other schools that are members of a consortium of middle school entrepreneur programs across northeast Ohio called Alphajump. Alphajump schools utilize a customized curriculum and train their students to envision, create and pitch a business idea. The “Shark Tank” event will determined the final winners for this year. Next year, the St. Mary group will be additionally competing in a regional $100,000 Challenge, an online stock game where they will compete against other Alphajump schools.
