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Shea Hardy displays her Sunshine Jewelry at the Kid Biz Market & Expo on April 20 at Indian Trails Middle School. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Kasandra Baker's Hope's Photography won the $250 grand prize at the Kid Biz Market & Expo. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Evan Babcock peaks out of the tent at Eve's Grillin' Goodness. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Carlin Blaine sold handmade jewelry at Blaine's Bracelet Boutique at the ITMS Kid Biz Market & Expo. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Indian Trails Middle School student Brendan Scarborough-Sanders sold homemade baked goods to help raise money for his trip to Indiana for the Future Problem Solvers international competition. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Rosanne Kocher of Yes, You're Invited Inc.; Luci Dance and Flagler County Commission Chair Andy Dance; and Curtis Ceballos, CEO and founder of Invisacook. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Abigail Osterkamp and her aunt Shelley Brown. Abigail creates and sells earrings, bracelets, necklaces and rings. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Kids got a chance to sell their wares and compete in the “shark tank” for cash prizes at the Kid Biz Market & Expo on Saturday, April 20, at Indian Trails Middle School.
The event was presented by the ITMS Future Problem Solver team, Project BOSS, (Bring On Student Start-Ups). The team won state in the Community Problem Solvers Education category and will compete at the international competition in June at Indiana University.
The sharks were four local business owners who judged the presentations according to a rubric created by the seven students on the Project Boss team.
The Flagler County Education Foundation provided the cash prizes with Invisacook CEO and founder Curtis Ceballos providing the grand prize of $250 and also donating $100 to one of the first-place prize winners.
Matanzas High School junior Kasandra Baker won the $250 grand prize for her Hope’s Photography business. Carlin Blaine, whose business is Blaine’s Bracelet Boutique, shared first prize with Shea Hardy’s Sunshine Jewelry. They each received $100. Annabelle Kocher, who helped create the non-profit, Yes, You’re Invited Inc., with her parents, won the $50 second-place prize. And Evan Babcock, who helped feed the participants and guests at the Eve’s Grillin’ Goodness tent, won the $25 third-place prize.
The sharks included Ceballos; Lisa Magary, owner of True Access Primary Care; Clynton Byer of TTech and Byer Travel; and Sifu Adam Williss of The Dragon Institute Wing Chun Kung Fu martial arts school.
