Maine-Endwell Students Present Start-up Results

12/19/2012 (Updated 6:53:41 PM)

ENDWELL -- A successful local start-up is shutting it's doors - at Maine-Endwell High School.  But not before making a tidy profit.

A group of Maine-Endwell students created Sparta Products as part of a Junior Achievement Project. the students announced to the community business leaders who served as mentors that their company raised over $4000. The students sold products including drawstring bags and rally towels.

"It was a lot of hard work and I'm not gonna lie-- everybody was stressing out for the past week.  We just wanted to make the company loko good.  But it was a great experience and we really learned how to work together," said Madeline Flesher, CEO of Sparta Products.

"Our hope is they go out and understand a little bit more about business.  Some of them will eventually own a business.  Probably all of them will use the skills: speaking in public, selling, working together," said Kevin BLAKE, President of ICS solutions.

The students donated $1000 of their profit to local charities.