Central High School’s FBLA team celebrates American Enterprise Day
By Kendra Simpson
Central High School will celebrate the American entrepreneurial spirit this Friday in honor of American Enterprise Day.
During lunch, Central’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) will host a Trivia and Treats event. Two students, Rudy Habiger and Jacob Orth, will share key aspects of the American economic system by asking trivia questions and giving out treats to students who answer correctly.
“The project is to create community awareness,” Business teacher and FBLA Adviser Jill Blazer said. “I like to really kind of spread the word that profit is not a bad word. Profit means that businesses can stay in business and you know that our economic health, whether it’s local or national, that’s super important for an overall health of a community.”
American Enterprise Day was established by former President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and is now celebrated annually on Nov. 15. FBLA now sets aside the day to recognize how free enterprise positively contributes to the economy.
“Our project is abut spreading more community awareness about our economic system,” FBLA member Rudy Habiger said. “We’re mainly trying to focus that on American Enterprise Day. It’s about the structure of American economics and it’s the freedom for people to own businesses in America with little government regulations. It’s just awesome, anyone can start or own a business, you don’t really need any qualifications.”
FBLA continues to celebrate American Enterprise Day to ensure that younger generations appreciate the free enterprise system, the freedoms it offers such as consumer choice, right to start a business, supply and demand, and job opportunities.
“Knowing that you can own a business and that many of these students will probably go on to own their own business is a great thing,” FBLA member Jacob Orth said.
“In our community, we live in a smaller town,” Habiger said. “For sure, like American enterprise, just supports small business and business owners alike so we’re trying to get kids just involved.”
Central’s FBLA team will take their project to compete in Missouri’s FBLA state competition in Springfield this April.
