Entrepreneur

• Students learn to operate their own business and raise financial capital through loans, stock and bonds. They also learn how to produce and market their product or service. Students fill out job applications and go through interviews for top jobs in their company. They close their businesses by repaying loans and dividends to shareholders. Each class also learns that giving back to the community is what a good business does. They choose a charity to give part of their profit to. Student representatives went to Purdue for a classroom business showcase to display their product and financial results.  Students learn many economic concepts while running their classroom business.
  
  *  200 Youth in upper elementary increased their 
•     knowledge of entrepreneur and economic
      concepts through the program.
• *  Teachers are pleased with the outcomes of the
•     knowledge gained by students.
  *  Students also learned to market their products
      through many means such as television, the
      newspaper, and Web pages; at the same time
      bringing program visibility to the readers.

Water Riches

Warren County fifth grade students learn about water, why it is important to us and why we should do everything we can to protect it. Earth is the water planet but how much of it is available to use? They learn about water above the ground as well as what is found below the ground in aquifers. Students do experiments to see the relationship between soil particle size and the percolation rate to see how this can have an impact on pollution of our water supplies. They learn that it is everyone’s responsibility to protect and conserve our water supply.

Space Station Indiana

Space Station Indiana is a science enrichment program to try to get second and third grade students excited about science and see that it can be fun and educational. Sherry Sarkkinen organizes, plans, and presents lesson concepts with a variety of teaching aides. Sherry also adapts games to assist students with learning and retention in a fun way.