KCC Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

Thank you KCC students and supporters. Today was my last day after 25 years of teaching. I was lucky to spend my last work day with my precious daughter, Hannah.

The Entrepreneurship class spent the last 7 days preparing marketing materials for a number of Anchorage businesses and a non-profit. The following is an Adobe Spark presentation created by Henry for Alaska Seeds of Change.

Adobe Spark Video A story told with Adobe Spark Video.

Entrepreneurship's second session class visited Seeds of Change on Friday to learn about the non-profit and collect information that they will use in promotional materials they will create for the organizations.

The Entrepreneurship class visited Alaska Seeds of Change today to learn about this non-profit's operations, and marketing needs. Our students will spend the next week developing marketing materials for the organization.

The second semester students are back from their internships. Today they met with Daisy Nicolas, the owner of Drool Central, and Carolina Vidal, owner of The Pinata Shop. The entrepreneurship students are working with students from Film and Audio, and the photography class to create promotional materials for each of the businesses to use.

Allan Carraway, and advisor with the Alaska Small Business Development Center, conducted a workshop in Entrepreneurship that included an introduction to the SBDC, and financial analysis, specifically how to determine a business's breakeven point. Allan is our advisory board chairman, and has been involved with our program since it started five years ago.

KCC's Entrepreneurship class has a superfan -- Mr. Russ Christenson. He stops by every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday to support our businesses. Feel free to drop by on these days to watch our businesses in action. Our businesses close April 20.

The Entrepreneurship class has 8 students in internships this semester. Students serve six weeks working with a mentor in a field that interests them. Our business partners include Alaska Blue and Gold, Moose A'la Mode, The Music Man, Junior Achievement, The Midnight Sun Cafe, etc. Thank you interns and mentors!

Check out the testimonials from one of our KCC businesses: Mac Attack

Testimonials Mac Attack

Entrepreneur of the Week
By Mia
“Chef don’t judge,” is Aaron Blum’s motto. Aaron is an accepting and outgoing young man. With experience in Boy Scouts, Taekwondo and many outdoor activities, he exhibits great personality traits, such as hardwork and determination.
During his free time, Aaron enjoys a good book or any sorts of music.
Growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, one of his favorite things to do was set up camp and fish all over the state. One day Aaron hopes to run his own technology repair company or work for Apple, where he has already applied for a position. He plans to pursue this in the next 5 years by studying at Avtec IT, while continuing to hang out with friends and care for his adorable cat.
Aaron is the CEO of the business Milk N’ Cookies. His first venture, Pick Up N’ Go, picked up and went – the business did not catch on, so rather than become demoralized, Aaron and his team pivoted to a new business that sells oven fresh cookies to the students and staff at KCC. Now their business outperforms the competition during second session at KCC.

Our entrepreneurship students stayed busy today during KCC's Hiring Event, during which more than 70 business representatives were on hand to hire our students for jobs. Our students interviewed, helped with hospitality, and actually promoted products from their own stores.

Zhen Stickers is a KCC business that designs and produces custom-made stickers for businesses and a variety of organizations. Currently the team has six clients, but they are always looking for more. Here is their business website: https://trulyzhen.weebly.com/