Leadership Walton Students Help Kids Be Entrepreneurs on Lemonade Day

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Students at Leverett Elementary pitch their idea for a lemonade stand.

The lemonade stand is the teaching tool used by 37 Leadership Walton students as they help kids in Northwest Arkansas learn what it means to be entrepreneurs.

The students from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas are working with students in grades 3-8 as a part of Lemonade Day. 

Lemonade Day is an experiential program that teaches youngsters around the country and in Africa to start, own and operate their own business — a lemonade stand — during a community-wide Lemonade Day. The program teaches key analytical skills, financial literacy and decision making and fosters self-esteem. The Northwest Arkansas Chapter of Lemonade Day is organized by Big Brothers Big Sisters of NWA.

The Leadership Walton students divided into teams and in April traveled to schools in Fayetteville, West Fork, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville and Gentry to teach youngsters about product development, pitching the investor, marketing, stand location and budgeting. Rita Littrell, director of the Bessie B. Moore Center for Economic Education at the University of Arkansas, helped the Leadership Walton students learn to teach those concepts.

To cap their project, the young Northwest Arkansas students will operate stands throughout the area on May 6, including the Fayetteville Farmer's Market.

Leadership Walton Students Participating in Lemonade Day:

Jacob Adams
Karina Amend
Rachel Amos
Kristen Armstrong
Baiely Beykirch
Maddie Boland
Alexis Byrd
Cade Carlisle
Grace Coen
Austin Collins
Brent Collins
Dominic de la Guardia
Davis Finke
Grace Fischer
Amanda Funderburg
Rey Garcia
Conor Golden
Cole Hahn
Zach Hall
Marty Kight
Abby Klingensmith
Daniel Mallory
Andrea Mann
Felipe Manolof
Alex Martin
Ben Martin
Scott Mrozek
Joshua Peterson
Logan Poe
Elsie Pugh
Joshua Sagar
Marcelo Salinas
Maggie Sanders
Alyson Schutte
Hudson Shreve
Drew Strickland
Carson Turner