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PTO to offer youth education program
Staff Report
The Cooperstown Parent
Teacher Organization
(PTO) will be offering an
entrepreneurship education
program for youth
called TREP$.
According to organizers,
the program will begin on
Dec. 3. Students in grades
6-8 will watch the kick-off
DVD in a short presentation
about the program.
Students will then be given
the opportunity to enroll in
a series of six after-school
workshops where they will
receive instruction and will
be guided through various
creative exercises to understand
the ready skills of entrepreneurship,
as well as
team dynamics.
During a six-week period,
the students will research
and develop the
products or services they
will sell or promote at the
``TREP$ Marketplace,’’ according
to organizers.
This year’s Marketplace
will be held on Saturday,
Feb. 6 in the middle/high
school cafeteria from 10
a.m. to noon. The event is
free and open to the public.
TREP$ was created by
Pamela deWaal and Hayley
Romano, two certified
teachers who reside in West
Milford, N.J. The program
began when their then 10-
year-old sons decided to go
into business together selling
hand-stamped wrapping
paper at an adult vendor
night at the school.
The boys ``sold out’’ of
product and learned some
great lessons.
The kids were very
proud of their success and
shared the story with their
peers.
According to a PTO media
release, the mothers
saw a unique opportunity
to create a program where
all children, not only the
physically or academically
gifted, could achieve success,
and in turn, improve
self esteem.
TRWP$ was piloted in
the West Milford, New Jersey
school district at Paradise
Knoll School in Oak
Ridge. According to the media
release, based on the
merits of the program, the
Paradise Knoll PTA earned
the New Jersey PTA’s
Champion for Children
award for best new program.
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