Selma High students learn practical business skills through 'Bear Prints'

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Juniors and seniors astatine Selma High are learning what goes into moving a business.

The enactment they bash is meticulous. Every portion they peel distant oregon enactment up and property is done with precision.

"Yeah, it's beauteous stressful. There's a batch going connected astatine 1 clip sometimes, truthful you got to usage your encephalon a lot," Senior Matthew Esparza said.

This is the 2nd twelvemonth he's been portion of "Bear Prints."

It's a dual enrollment capstone people for the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Pathway.

"This people is simply a business, truthful you larn everything from it. It's similar operating your ain small business, and taking that from present to existent beingness is going to assistance maine a lot," Esparza said.

Business teacher Erin Niino says she treats the people arsenic her student's archetypal job.

"They inactive person to cheque successful with maine if they're going to beryllium absent. They person to fto maine cognize up of time, conscionable to springiness them that consciousness of work and accountability that they would person retired successful the existent world," Niino said.

Students enactment arsenic a squad to nutrient orders.

That includes creating the design, printing it out, peeling it, putting it connected the item, pressing it and posting to societal media.

Behind the scenes, students besides person to support inventory and cipher cost.

"We person discussions astir mounting our pricing, basically, however overmuch desired worldly cost? What bash we request to to acceptable our terms astatine to marque make our wealth back, astatine least," Niino said.

Orders travel successful from antithetic clubs connected campus, section simple schools and adjacent the teachers union.

Orders person accrued 25-30% annually during the 4 years the programme has been around.

This semester, students are connected way to make astir 1,000 pieces.

All wealth raised goes backmost into the program.

"It's a win-win. We're helping our schoolhouse community, our territory assemblage and it's each done by students," Niino said.

Depending connected the complexity of the order, it takes anyplace from a week to a period to fulfill.

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