Choffin Career and Technical Center will showcase its Business Entrepreneurship + Barbering program during an open house on Thursday. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet program instructors and stakeholders and see students in action.
The event occurs noon to 2 p.m. in Room 225 of Choffin Career and Technical Center, 200 E. Wood St., Youngstown.
In the two-year program, 11th- and 12th-grade students in the Youngstown City School District study general business and management skills with a focus on minority-owned entrepreneurship. The program began in the 2021-22 school year and caps at 25 students.
During the program, students develop a business plan and learn the aspects of owning and managing their own business. After completing, students will be prepared to start their own business, enter employment and/or attend college.
Representatives from Beyond Expectations Barbering College (BEBC) will offer haircuts during the open house. Choffin has a direct partnership with Beyond Expectations for the barbering component of the business-entrepreneurship program.
Beyond Expectations opened in August 2019 on Midlothian Boulevard in Youngstown. The barber college currently has 16 students. Eric Garrett II is director.
“We came up to the school few years ago when we were starting the program,” Garrett said. “We explained what the program was about and the hours that are needed when you get enrolled.”
Additionally, open house attendees will have the opportunity to see Choffin’s new school-based enterprise, the Choffin Express, and its plans for their new space that will be opening next year.
For more information on the program, call Choffin Career and Technical Center at 330-744-8700.
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