Arlington School & Family Magazine June/July 2015 | Page 14

Student Accomplishments

2014-2015
Entrepreneurship Contest

In the fall, students in third through sixth grades were
challenged to think like an entrepreneur in the What’s Your
Big Idea? Entrepreneurship Contest. The elementary contest
was created nine years ago by marketing students at The
Class in The Parks. For the nine years of this creative and
innovative program, the AISD and the Arlington Chamber
of Commerce have partnered together to engage students in
entrepreneurship. This unique collaborative program has
been recognized across the state of Texas as well as across
the country.
The students have the option of showing their idea in either
art form or in an essay. Both of these contests give students
the opportunity to express their big ideas for future products
and businesses. This year, there were 1,871 entries in the
elementary contest.

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The Big Idea contest goes beyond the sixth grade – to
include seventh and eighth grades. It is slightly different
from the elementary school version being that the older
students had to submit all of their creative ideas in an essay
form only. With 1,053 entries in the junior high contest,
this entrepreneurship Big Idea program just keeps growing.
Similar to the elementary entries, the junior high entries
were judged by the Arlington Chamber’s Champion
Education volunteers. †