Central High School Entrepreneurship Showcase

By WVUA 23 News Reporter Lyric Franklin

Central High School hosted their entrepreneurship showcase where students are given the opportunity to showcase their talents and ideas. There were businesses that created anything you could think of, from shirts, to bracelets, to cakes, to rotel dip and more.

Central High School has an entrepreneurship class that allows their students to work with a teacher and develop a name for their company, a business plan, and a business pitch. The school hosted a showcase to allow students to show off what they have been working on all school year.

Central High School Principal Teresha Jones says that this is a great experience and opportunity for  the students.

“Today is pretty awesome because it offers an opportunity for our kids who are interested in entrepreneurship who have different gifts and talents they are able to showcase them not only to their classmates but to also members of their community and to faculty and staff to show what they are capable of doing and some things that they are looking forward to doing in their future,” Jones said.

The school brought in judges like TCS Superintendent Mike Daria, District 7 Tuscaloosa City Councilman Cassius Lanier, and District 1 City Councilman Mathew Wilson. The judges were responsible for listening to students pitches and then deciding which business they wanted to invest in. One of the business’s at the showcase was called BTK, which stand for Born Through Knowledge. A group of four students created the brand and were the winner of the business grant

CEO of the business, Jahmila Baker says that they were inspired to start this business through the power of knowledge.

“The inspiration behind the business is, with born through knowledge we want every one to seek knowledge since knowledge is something that everyone should obtain,” Baker said.

Central High School realized that a lot of their students had gifts, but they were too shy to speak up about them and they created this showcase to give them the platform they needed.

“I am very thankful with our mentors, with Ms. Winston in general and with Dr. Kim because she actually helped us a lot. There was a lot to go through so much stuff happened during this process but everything turned out perfect,” Baker said.

BTK is thankful for the school’s support and ability to make the showcase happen.

Councilman Matthew Wilson  says he wants to give some discretionary funds to the entrepreneurship program at Central High School, and then eventually work with other school board members to ensure sustainability through partnership sources.

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