Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
All students must complete a project for these classes.
Brush + Bloom: Mini Makers Entrepreneur Courses Spring 2025
Instructor: Taylor Sebrechts
Contact information:
(269) 588-0056
hello@brushandbloommi.com
Location:
Brush + Bloom Studio
807 Lester Avenue
St. Joseph MI 49085 (inside of Urban Garage Market)
Mini Makers
Ages: 8+
Date: Thursdays beginning January 9th
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
This course is designed to instruct students on how to develop their creative passion or hobby into a small-scale business. Students will learn the basics of creating and pricing products, marketing their business, how to sell physical products in a local market, and how to scale a business. Students will engage in weekly hands-on lessons focused on logo creation, packaging, marketing strategies, and more. Students will also practice setting up a vendor display with a course culmination of a holiday maker’s market at Urban Garage Market.
Mini Makers Entrepreneur Syllabus
Advanced Mini Makers
Ages: 8+
Date: Tuesdays beginning January 7th
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
This course is designed to instruct students on how to further their creative passion or hobby into a small-scale business. Having already learned the basics of creating a small business in our beginners course, students will continue their entrepreneurial journey by learning about different sales channels (pop ups, Etsy, etc.), how to scale their production, how to apply for local vendor events, the basics of merchandising and creating retail displays, and expanding their customer service. Students will engage in weekly hands-on lessons focused on the aforementioned areas. Students will have the opportunity to participate in a Spring vendor market inside of Urban Garage Market in March.
Advanced Mini Makers Entrepreneur Syllabus
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Lisa Van Plew-Cid
