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This story features a presentation by the ROCORI Entrepreneurship Class of 2007-2008 at the Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce meeting. Giving presentations at this event were Kyle Ratke, Abby Hiltner, Brianna Haus, and Mike Hagstrom.
Entrepreneurship was started in 1996 at ROCORI High School. An Industrial Tech teacher by the name of Jerry Larson came up with the idea. Twenty–eight students were part of the first year of the class. Those twenty–eight students created thirteen businesses ranging from scrunchies to candles to folding tables.
During the first ten years of entrepreneurship, the class ran a class business, or in other words a thirty person partnership. The class businesses ranged from creating tables, futons, lawn swings, to their most successful product, sling back rockers.
Since 2004 the class has run just four terms during the year. There is no longer a class business, just the student created businesses. Until this year entrepreneurship ran the Spart N' Mart before and during school. Now the Spart N' Mart is only open after school. Spart N' Mart funds are going back in for the form of scholarships to the entrepreneurship students.
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