Corks for Kids is a community-based program in which wine corks are collected from area restaurants, crafted into branded art products and sold over the Internet and in area retail stores. The profits are used to fund art programs in the Starkville school system. High school students run the operation in an entrepreneurial class that is directed by the Small Business Administration at MSU as a means to develop future business leaders. The business operation is overseen by a business advisory group. Elementary, junior high and senior high students may suggest cork-art ideas. There are also opportunities for internships by marketing students in MSU’s college of business.
Contact Ron Cossman for more info: ronald.cossman@ssrc.msstate.edu
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I’ll help out in any way I can!!