Entrepreneurship Club Debuts at San Miguel School

San Miguel School’s new Entrepreneurship Club met for the first time on Tuesday, Oct. 19. 

The club, seeking to inspire students to learn more about entrepreneurship and the business world, is advised by San Miguel School Trustee Andrew Farrelly of CT Strategies, San Miguel supporter Ramon Escobar of Chufly Imports, and development coordinator Erika Mendoza as club moderator. 

More than two dozen students turned out for the club’s first meeting -- 15 sixth-graders, three seventh-graders and nine eighth-graders.

Inspiration for joining the club ranged from wanting to learn more about business to trying to help family businesses.

“I joined the club to help expand my mom’s catering company,” said Brian C. a seventh-grader.

Angel Q., an eighth-grader, said: “I wanted to join the club to learn how to make money and open a business to help my mom.” 

The meeting tackled topics such as being your own boss, goals, objectives and financial management. 

The club will continue to meet weekly on Tuesdays throughout the academic year. Students will be taught how to open businesses, run organizations and make them run successfully. 

According to the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Latin American community is starting small businesses faster than the rest of the startup population and becoming a bigger part of the total U.S. market every day. Approximately 17% of all entrepreneur-owned businesses in the country are Latino-owned and this share is expected to increase to 29% by 2050.

Any entrepreneurs interested in speaking to the club can contact or send questions to development@sanmigueldc.org.