Calgary camp for young entrepreneurs helps ‘empower the youth’

This week’s bringing a fewer important life lessons for immoderate hardworking Calgary kids.

They’re really getting down to business and having a batch of nosy on nan way.

Young entrepreneurs aged 7 to 15 are learning nan basics of business astatine nan Mini Titans campy astatine nan Cedarbrae Community Centre successful southwest Calgary.

The kids astatine nan campy get to make a product, specified arsenic candy kebabs aliases fridge magnets, and travel up pinch trading strategies for it.

“Our main extremity successful nan campy is to empower nan younker to build bully civilized character,” campy leader Mike Mammel said. “Honesty, discipline, resilience.”

The lessons nan campy kids are learning will bring benefits acold beyond nan world of business.

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“Failing is good,” Meghan Seipert, 13, said. “You study from your mistakes.”

The young entrepreneurs will beryllium trading their products betwixt 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. connected Friday astatine nan Cedarbrae Community Centre.

“One of nan outcomes of nan campy that we really announcement is that kids are now going location and building worldly connected their ain time,” Mammel said, “rather than having surface time.”