Students in Ms. Alicia Cook's fifth-grade class recently Zoomed with her brother, entrepreneur Jon Cook, from Statesboro, GA. Cook began a recycling business four years ago. His company, Green Rock Recycling, offers a curbside pickup for plastics and glass. These items are collected once a week and then processed at his shop. Landscaping products are then manufactured with the recycled material and are sold at a local business.
Students learned what benefits and risks are taken when becoming an entrepreneur, and were able to ask questions in order to help them create their own business plan.