Accounting freshman Chayla Jones picks out waist beads during the MavMarket event on April 18, 2024, outside the Central Library.
MavMarket will turn Brazos Park into a UTA student-run bazaar from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday.
Hosted by the Entrepreneurship Club and powered by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development, MavMarket is held twice an academic year and provides UTA students with a platform to launch, grow and validate their business ventures, according to the center’s website.
Chaitanya Sant Kumar, engineering management master’s student and Entrepreneurship Club president, said the event will feature a live band and opportunities for audience engagement. Vendors will be selling anything from homemade matcha to trinkets and jewelry.
“It doesn’t have to be expensive things, it doesn’t have to be something that is fully complete or polished,” Kumar said. “It just needs to be a product that they can sell.”
He said the role of attendees is to provide feedback to the vendors on whether they would buy the products or on changes the vendors might want to make. Kumar said most of the vendors participating in the market are selling self-made products, and everything is student-built.
“The overall idea behind MavMarket is to promote student entrepreneurs on campus,” he said. “Everyone has some kind of side hustle that they are doing.”
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