Students from nine Greater Sudbury high schools learned marketing, entrepreneurship, accounting and finance and business management, while given a chance to earn a $1,000 scholarship
Roughly 250 students from nine local high schools had to Level Up to get down to business at Cambrian College recently.
The students were on campus earlier in May for Level Up: Business @ Cambrian, powered by the Douglas A. Smith Family School of Business. The event provided students with an opportunity to experience the world of business.
The students attended four different workshops on the topics of marketing, entrepreneurship, accounting and finance and business management.
“The labour market for this generation is going to be quite different from the one experienced by their parents, and they may have to be a lot more business-savvy and entrepreneurial as opposed to working at one employer for life,” said Jill Ferguson, the Dean of the Douglas A. Smith Family School of Business at Cambrian, in a press release.
“The Level Up event provided students with a taste of the knowledge and skills they may need in the future to thrive, regardless of what career they pursue.”
Level Up also included five $1,000 scholarships, donated by KPMG, to attend one of Cambrian’s business programs. One of the students winning a scholarship is Avianna Dodd-Taylor, a Grade 10 student at Lively District Secondary School.
“It feels amazing to win this scholarship,” said Taylor. “I would like to pursue my own business one day, even though I still have to figure out what that would be, and this scholarship would sure help.”