Students are selling and enjoying snacks, drinks and ice cream after school to help fundraise for clubs.
The first block Entrepreneurship class is operating vending machines to support the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and the Technology Student Association (TSA).
The family and consumer science (FCS) classes are selling soft serve ice cream to benefit FCS and Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).
The projects seem to be a success.
Business teacher Robert Ours said the vending machines have been “well-liked, well received.”
“Teachers like having vending machines again,” Ours said.
The vending machines are in the school’s learning labs off the main lobby.
They are open to teachers during the day, but students can’t use them until after school.
Students have also been enjoying having access to drinks after school for activities like sports, according to senior Riley Parnell.
Parnell is in Ours first block Entrepreneurship class.
Ours said the program was a chance to give the kids hands on experience with the curriculum. He said it has also been a good fundraiser.
There have been obstacles.
Ours said that an unexpected challenge is “maintaining the inventory.”
Parnell said one challenge was that kids are hanging out at the vending machines without supervision.
Ours now monitors the machines after school.
FCS serving ice cream
Family consumer science teacher Peyton Molands has also noticed that the ice cream fundraiser has become a gathering spot, and she said “it’s turned into a place where kids can come in and hang out.”
“All of the profit from the fundraiser goes back to family consumer science,” Molands said.
The after school ice cream shop has been open since the end of October, and they say they have made roughly $400 profit.
They have tried various flavors are take feedback from students.
“I take suggestions about new ice cream flavors,” Molands said.
Junior Nate Babite is one of many students who tried the ice cream, and he said he wished the ice cream “was more creamy.”
Molands said an unexpected challenge was that she lost the manual to the ice cream machine, so she had to learn how to clean and fix it.
Molands said that they will be selling ice cream at some upcoming home basketball games.
