Good Business Sense: E.C. Glass Economics Students Awarded for their Entrepreneurial Skills
Sweatshirts. They can keep you warm, help you spread school pride and make you a few bucks - that is if you’re in Mr. Rick Kennedy’s economics class at E.C. Glass High School. Students came into the class to learn…they came out with a new business venture - ECG Clothing Productions. They made sweatshirts, put together an advertising campaign and started selling! It was all done as part of the Junior Achievement mentoring program. Mr. Ron Kennedy, Rick’s brother and the Distance Learning Coordinator for Liberty University, came in to help teach the teens a little bit about business as well.
This year, ECG Clothing Productions is proud to take home JA’s Economics Class of the Year.
Junior Achievement of Virginia’s Piedmont is recognizing the students and the Kennedy brothers for their hard work. Beyond being successful business people, the class/ business partners, now have an award under their belts as well. Turns out these sweatshirt making students were the best business students in the region. Junior Achievement considers all the schools in the region for this award.
This is the fourth year in a row that Mr. Kennedy’s class has taken home the honor!
Ed Dellinger, Lynchburg City School’s coordinator for Career Technical Education and JA board member, presented the award to Mr. Kennedy during a luncheon at Outback Steakhouse.
