Young entrepreneurs learn budgeting, marketing and leadership while preparing to run their own businesses across eight Coastal Bend communities. \n<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Lemonade Day is returning to the Coastal Bend, giving children the opportunity to learn real-world business skills while operating their own small businesses.<\/p>\n
The program, organized by the United Corpus Christi Chamber Foundation, uses lemonade stands as a hands-on way to teach children how to start, market, and manage a business from the ground up. Organizers say the experience goes far beyond selling lemonade, helping participants develop skills they can use throughout their lives.<\/p>\n
There is a registration event happening on Tuesday, June 2, from 4-6 p.m. at the Coastal Bend College in Alice to learn how your child can become a young entrepreneur.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is a curriculum-based opportunity for children to learn everything from A to Z of how to own and operate their own businesses,” said Hope Rangel with the United Corpus Christi Chamber Foundation. “We do it through the premise of a lemonade stand.”<\/p>\n
Participants learn how to create business plans, develop marketing strategies, manage budgets and build public speaking and presentation skills.<\/p>\n
“They’re learning everything that a small business owner needs to know to be successful,” Rangel said.<\/p>\n
While lemonade remains the centerpiece of the event, many young entrepreneurs expand beyond traditional drinks.<\/p>\n
“We have so many kids across the Coastal Bend that don’t just do lemonade,” Rangel said. “If they can think it and make it, they can sell it.”<\/p>\n
Past participants have sold products ranging from baked goods and arts and crafts to crocheted items and 3D-printed creations.<\/p>\n
Among last year’s standout participants were siblings Zoey, Ozzy and Evan Garcia, who earned the program’s Entrepreneur of the Year award.<\/p>\n
Asked about the secret behind their success, the trio credited hard work and family support.<\/p>\n
“We just tried our best,” they said. The siblings operated a lemonade stand featuring boba lemonade and said their parents and family members helped them throughout the process.<\/p>\n
“Mom and Dad and family,” they said when asked who supported their business. Organizers say community support plays a major role in the program’s success and encourage residents to visit local stands and support participating children.<\/p>\n
Lemonade Day activities will take place in multiple Coastal Bend communities, including Corpus Christi, Portland, Gregory, Alice, Kingsville and Ingleside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Children interested in participating can register through the United Corpus Christi Chamber Foundation, either online or at participating events.<\/p>\n
Rangel said the goal is to help children gain confidence while learning valuable lessons about entrepreneurship, responsibility and leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young entrepreneurs learn budgeting, marketing and leadership while preparing to run their own businesses across eight Coastal Bend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-320278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}