Barb White introduced Peter Yungblut, Brian Andreason, and Mark Janke from Trillium Lakelands District School Board.  These teachers have created this special program to help grade 7/8 students understand Entrepreneurship.  They have recreated a program based on the Dragons Den TV show.  Dragons are business people in the area that can let students know if their business idea is feasible.  Barb was a Dragon this year.
These three teachers have developed this program for HPS, and Watt.  Students are put on team from different schools and required to develop and market a product or service for a geographic area.  The children create a business model plan that will include cost, location and demographics.  They are then required to pitch their idea to real Dragons or business people in the community with real experience and know if the idea is viable in the market.  These are only 13/14 year olds and the work they put into this project is amazing.  The idea is to keep kids in our area.  We want to retain more great minds and stop losing them to urban cities.  Next's years focus will be to include the Chamber of Commerce, Jr Achievement and to change the requirements of products to be targeted for the Muskoka market.  If you would like more information or would like to be a mentor, Dragon or you would like to contribute any ideas on how to improve this program please contact via email m.janke@tldsb.net and he will give the information you may need.
John Jarvis thanked the teachers and everyone was really happy to hear about their success with the program.