Sept. 2023 | Vol. 10 Iss. 09
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STUDENTS MAKE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, CREATE BUSINESSES THROUGH BINGHAM’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY
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By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com
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his school year, students are following the footsteps of those who piloted Bingham High’s Entrepreneurship Academy. Recent Bingham High graduate Jace Wagstaff was one of the first students to participate in the program. He and other students split into small groups and brainstormed ideas to start a business. Then, they had a local business leader mentor them. His four-member group’s idea was to create a device to dock a boat without a rope. “We developed the idea over a couple months,” Wagstaff said. “Basically, you pull the boat into the dock, then you have a suction cup that hooks onto the face of your boat and then there’s a shock system that goes against the dock that prevents it from colliding. It helps those people who struggle to find the right ropes and tying them. The idea behind it is to make it simpler and, in some cases, safer.” He said the initial design was for waterskiing boats, but the device, Dock Hero,
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should work on all watercrafts including jet skis and kayaks. Wagstaff, who has continued with the business on his own after the class ended, has six or seven prototypes and has met with an engineer to get it professionally built and manufacture about 100 devices this summer. The Entrepreneurship Academy began when Jordan School District career and technical education directors wanted to create entrepreneurship programs within the business departments at its six comprehensive high schools. Each high school then was charged to start its own course, so no two programs are identical, said Pepper Poulsen, Bingham High CTE/concurrent enrollment coordinator. In Bingham’s program, students first identify “a problem that they encounter all the time that they feel they can create a business or a service to fix,” class teacher Andrea Call said. Continued page 19
Recent Bingham High graduate Jace Wagstaff showed his entrepreneurship class the prototype, Dock Hero, that he developed with his classmates. (Photo courtesy of Jace Wagstaff)
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