# [Partners #13 - 1890 Land-Grant Universities]{.underline}

Youth Entrepreneurs-Web Script 8/1/05

**Samantha Pimpedly**

*Our business, Arcade Stop, has been going on for about 2 years already.
We made some pretty good money*

*Hi! Welcome to Arcade Stop. We have plenty of games...*

**Narrator**

Samantha Pimpedly attends Horace Mann Junior High School. She and her
partners have started a business called Arcade Stop. Students can choose
from a number of video games and, for a fee, play them on the game
consoles.

**Samantha Pimpedly**

*Our first step was thinking of like how many consoles do we need and
what type of games people would be interested in and what age group we
would like to attract. I learned partnership and how to run a business
and the targeting and everything. It was great.*

**Jonell Westerberg**

*We're trying to teach them how to work cooperatively together, but they
don't know the importance of it being a team member. And when they get
into the business world now, everything now is a team. They've learned
how to work out problems. Problem solving-lots of problem solving.*

*Patrice has been there for us the whole 5 years. She's helped us with
our materials. She's helped us by training. We got the computers that we
were able to use in our business plans.*

**Narrator**

Patrice Barnes heads the 4-H Youth Development Program in San Antonio
for Prairie View A&M University, Texas's 1890 land-grant school.

Since 1998, she has focused on T-Teems, the Texas Teens Exploring
Entrepreneurial Minds project. In the past five years, T-Teems has
reached over 1000 students in inner-city schools. Annually, the young
entrepreneurs strut their stuff at the 4-H Youth Trade Show. Here they
set up booths, sell products and services, and are awarded prizes.

**Patrice Barnes**

*T-Teems offers the kids a positive outlook on life from what they're
accustomed to in their poverty stricken neighborhoods. It provides with
another avenue, another chance, another positive door they can open and
also shows them a way to make money in a positive way.* *The students
that we work with... they are ethnic students... the Hispanic and black
students.*

*They come from economically challenged neighborhoods and some of them
live in what we know as the projects. Some live with their aunts or
uncles. Neighborhoods are really poor... you may see graffiti on the
walls or you may see kids in gangs and those kinds of things.*

**Narrator**

T-Teems businesses are as diverse as the project's participants. They
range from hair braiding to lawn care, from t-shirt shops to candle
making. In the process, the kids learn fundamental business skills of
organization, marketing, and economics. One recent project was started
by two students from Sam Houston High School.

**Justin Lowery**

*The name of our business is Jus-Wes-Lo. It's a card business. We just
like trading cards with our friends and stuff. So we just decided to
make a business out of it. This is our business plan right here. We have
company name. Our benefits is just having fun and our products. And our
target is young people and old sports fans. We just had a lot of fun,
just us being together. It's always a lot of fun so. Sometimes he gets
on my nerves, but it's all right though.*

**Patrice Barnes**

*I see them walking away with self-esteem, a knowledge about what they
had no clue of. I see them gaining reading skills, organizational
skills, management skills. And these are skills that they learned
managing their own businesses, but these are also skills that they can
take into their future careers and their lives.*

*There's one student in particular, and his name is Clifford Jefferson.
He was a very shy student, had a monotone voice, always had his head
down when I saw him. It was about three years into the program that I
got a chance to observe him being interviewed by Channel 9 News here in
San Antonio at one of the trade show events.*

*If you could see him. He was just holding his hand in his pocket. He
had a nice suit on. He was talking to the newscaster with so much
confidence. To see a child go from one area and to develop him to
something you could not possibly imagine, is really worthwhile.*