At the start of the year, RSJ’s Director of Co-Curricular, Mr Futawatari, became Enterprise Club’s chief Angel Investor, offering two entrepreneurial teams ¥5000 each as start-up capital.
Their challenge was to generate a return on Mr Futawatari’s investment during a number of enterprise events, which will take place throughout the academic year.
The first of these events – where club members sold hot chocolate and tanghulus – were a roaring success for the senior teams. Then on Tuesday 28th January, 8 pupils from Junior Entrepreneurs Club, collaborated with Y11 entrepreneurs, to run a lunchtime mini fair.
Their goal? To see if they could grow Mr Futawatari’s investment even further.
To do this, each group was challenged to design a fairground stall, then to plan how they would make a profit and run their stall on the day.
All in all, club members created four stalls: darts, ¥1 drop, cup shooting and toilet roll tossing!
Students drummed up business and managed their customers with typical RSJ panache. And as the photos show, lots of fun was had by the visitors to the fair.
In total the students made over ¥19,000 profit from the event, which they aim to grow further at our next event. At the end of the summer term, all profits will be donated to RSJ’s chosen school charity.
Look out for the entrepreneurs at the next event in March!
