{"id":650,"date":"2013-05-23T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=650"},"modified":"2013-05-24T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:17:43","slug":"sharks-take-over-bayside-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/sharks-take-over-bayside-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks take over Bayside Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about a tough sell.<\/p>\n

Mat Scott, civics teacher at Bayside Middle, turned an economics lesson into an entrepreneurial experience by having groups of students create a business and product, a la Shark Tank<\/em>, the popular business pitch show on ABC.\u00a0 Armed with a business profile, marketing plan, and either schematics or a prototype, students visited teachers to make their sales pitch and find investors.<\/p>\n

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Ayanna Garvin and Nia Donawa, Bayside Middle School eighth graders, present their Reflection Perfection concept of a dressing room mirror with smart technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eighth-graders Nia Donawa and Ayanna Garvin made a sales pitch for their Reflection Perfection invention, a smart dressing room mirror. With their invention in a department store, a customer could walk into the dressing room and pick clothing from a touch screen. In 3D they would see how an item fit without ever taking if off a coat hanger. According to the students, not only would their invention please customers, but it also would speed up picking out clothes and reduce theft. Their imaginary invention garnered $400 from investors.<\/p>\n

One team had floor samples to show off their new cleaning product. Another had business cards and a menu for Sweet Treats Retreats, a bakery for people with special dietary needs. Other inventions offered a look into the future: a hover skateboard, a hologram watch, iPhone earrings, and a single machine that washed and dried clothes.
\nIn the end, the business earning the most investment money had designed a Smart Desk so students could do all of their work on a touch sensitive desk surface with hologram projection capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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