Local organizers bring 'Lemonade Day' to Calgary
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Summary
Lemonade Day is a free, hands-on, experiential program for kids ages 5-13 who get to experience the thrill and the excitement of being an entrepreneur through starting, owning and operating their very own business, The Lemonade Stand.
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Lemonade Day is a free, kind of hands-on, experiential program for kids ages 5 to 13
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who get to experience the thrill and the excitement of being an entrepreneur
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through starting, owning and operating their very own business, the Lemonade Stand,
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I got inspired because I love cars and I definitely love F1.
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And, well, when they come in to get their wheels changed, the pit crew does it.
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So I decided to make my Enzo's Pit Stop Lemonade.
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I was looking for something for my son to do because technology these days just
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rob them from everything outside and, yeah, pop up on Google for me
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Our founder and CEO, Chantelle Little, she's an entrepreneur herself
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and always kind of had entrepreneurial spirit as a young child.
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When she heard about Lemonade Day and the program
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and how this kind of empowered youth to kind of experience the same journey,
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she thought she had to bring this thing to Calgary as well.
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So we're now in our third year running and it's getting bigger and better each year.
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And I love the fact that it really encouraged kids to be entrepreneurial.
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We downloaded the app and Jack took the time to go through it all
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and learned about marketing and budgeting and coming up with a plan.
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Yeah, like once I owned enough, I was by the dirt bike.
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I saw something about it and it looked like a great opportunity for the kids
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to make some money and learn about finances and to also give back to the community.
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Today, I think, is probably one of the most exciting days of my life
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because we've been making money pretty much the whole time and having fun.
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Next year, we're going to keep doing a lot of the same.
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We're going to be encouraging and empowering these young entrepreneurs to come back,
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do their stands bigger and better, as well as expand the reach.
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We're hoping to get way more youth to come into the program for the first time
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and we're hopefully going to be able to even visit more and more every single year
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and really blow the program up across the city so everyone in the whole city will know