 Would you rather pay $650 or $66 for a smart phone? Simple. With the Appalachian Advantage plan, pay less upfront, and then just a few dollars more every month. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Teamwork and strategy are necessities of building and growing a successful business. The seventh and eighth grade classes of Adams Middle School are giving the opportunity to learn these traits and to try their hand at becoming business owners. This is our sixth year, I think, of our annual AMS Entrepreneur Fair. It started with the seventh grade, but this year it's seventh and eighth grade. They are actually creating businesses. They have a business plan. They have to do displays. They have to do marketing plans and strategies. They have to make their posters. They have to make their goods, or they can have a service that they're offering. The winners of our competition will then go on to the regional, which is at the Sports Plex and Knot County in November 20th. It's really a chance for them to do hands-on real business experience. This is really cool because you can talk it in the classroom and they can study it. When you're actually there with a table full of cupcakes and you're trying to get somebody to buy yours instead of the ones next door, then you're thinking, oh, I should have put up more posters or maybe my price is too much. It's really hands-on, it's real experience, and it comes pretty quickly. I'll pull the spokespeople aside, tell them what I want the business to know, and then let them go and tell. So you get some communication skills that aren't usually used. And then here, they have to make their pitch. They have to talk to their customer. They have to interact. We have judges that come in. They don't know who the judges are, so they're interacting. They're learning to sell. They're learning to communicate, and it is. It's a lot of its social skills and it's more than just the phone in front of their face. That's the best part. They brought the basketballs and they've set them up, they've been playing. They've played the whole day. So it's an outlet to release some energy. There's a little bit of competition. I'm really thankful for the opportunity that Kvec and Moorhead State shout out to Dr. Janet Ratliff. She spearheads this. She will bring her students down to the sportsplex later this month to judge the regional competition. And they're using this as a teaching tool there. So for Entrepreneur Affairs, it's my first year doing it this year. Last year I just got to walk around. But this year I decided to do a photo booth called PC Fix with my friend Kate. We have props set up and decorations that people can decorate their little Polaroid that we took a picture of. Using the business side of things is different than just like, I'll give you a dollar if I can get this or whatever, because we learn so much about profits and math and the STEM program and everything like that. This is our Entrepreneur Affair. It's supposed to teach us about entrepreneurship and I basically had to run a business if we did want to be entrepreneurs. Our idea was to do tie-dye. We tie-dye different clothing products and we're in there selling them. We thought this would be a good idea because we don't see a lot of people wearing tie-dye and we just think it's a really good idea to put a little bit more color in the world. Our business name is Hawaiian Hut. Our name is Entrepreneur Affair and we're selling lemonade and cookies and shaved ice and stuff like that. We have learned how to build a business and how to set a goal and make a profit and basically how to run a business. I believe it's very important because in the future we need local businesses and stuff so this would really help for the future. And that's what we're trying to teach them, just to take a chance and grow from it.