Intro to Business: 2018 Company Profiles

Approaching the door of Jared Lowe’s classroom during third hour on any given day, the lively sound of students hard at work emanates from the door. A step into Lowe’s Intro to Business class captivates any visitor with the animated atmosphere, groups huddled around shiny new products at each table, engrossed in the discussing and planning of managing a business. In the back of the classroom s...

Leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and integrity. There is only one class that ties all of these qualities together: Intro to Business. Taught by civics teacher Jared Lowe, the class allows students to embark on a journey in business with all the necessary resources surrounding them. These students are opening up a new book of skills to help them in the business world. After gaining so...

Sophomore Logan VanLente was a freshman in Jared Lowe’s civics class when he started his own business. Hoping for some guidance in undertaking this hefty task, Logan reached out to Lowe. He received not only the help he had been seeking, but a suggestion to take Intro to Business. Taking into consideration Lowe’s suggestion, Logan added Intro to Business to his sophomore schedule. This choice led to th...

Intro to Business is most well known for its ambitious fifteen-week project. The whole objective of the project is to sell as much as you can from the company you built. But for senior Jack Sarb, the idea of a product has been in mind since the eighth grade. “When I was younger,” Jack said. “I used to always go to clothing stores, and they'd always have hoodies for eighty dollars. Why is this...

Intro to Business is one of the many classes provided here at FHC that equips students with valuable life skills. Responsibility, teamwork, marketing, business skills, and communication skills are all an unwritten part of the curriculum. To enhance the role these life lessons play in class, teacher Jared Lowe has developed a unique project that challenges students to create a product as a team and ...

“We came up with the name because you stick the product on the back of your phone, and it makes your screen clean, so it is a combination of the two words,” sophomore Avery LeTourneau said. Social studies teacher, Jared Lowe, has a class called Introduction to Business, and the students are working on learning the basic steps to running a small business and selling products. There are seven grou...

When it comes to running a business, every group member counts. This idea became quite apparent for students in Introduction to Business. With a variety of positions and a limited amount of time, students must work effectively and quickly in order to produce a successful project. In one of the class's projects, entitled “Bottles for a Cause,” junior Hayden Sarjeant, senior James Kaufmann, sophomo...