3/24/16 Project Continued

Tyler Johnson 

Period 7

3/24/17

Project Hook and Update 

I spent some of my time over spring break sort of finishing up my 20 time project. I have finally conducted all of the sales days and I just need to know what charity to donate the money to. By doing this while I was on break when I could have been doing other things that would have been more fun it shows how dedicated I am to my project. Also knowing that 90% of my 20 time project should also speak to how much I care about this project and why I should continue to do this project. I think that my hook for the video will be something on the lines of an infomercial or something like that where I start out saying something like “DO YOU LIKE MONEY AND WANT TO HAVE MORE OF IT”?!?!? Then I would explain that by saying something is for charity it makes people more likely to buy the product. I have changed a few things about my project though. I have moved away from the candy side of everything because there were too many problems concerning reselling something that I have already bought from a store for a higher price. However there is nothing wrong with selling cookies and that is exactly what I did. Not only was it a lot more legal but it was also cheaper and more profitable to make them. As for paying for the materials, I simply deducted the cost of the baking materials from the total revenue and kept the profits for charity. Everything worked out great and I even got the results that I wanted. 

Blog Post 4 "They say, I Say"

Tyler Johnson

Period 7

3/2/17

My 20 –time project

People might look at my project and think that what I’m doing is illegal or it might be too big of a project and it might have negative consequences for me as well as other organizations that might benefit from selling baked goods at school for a booster club. Another thing that people might say is that it might be too big of a project trying to keep track of all the money and that I might make mistakes while carrying out my project.

The people in my article think that the best way to sell things at school is candy and that if you sold other things there would be too many obstacles that would come up. For example, in article titled “selling candy at school” written by Yousef I talks about how if you were to sell things at school that weren’t candy and individually packaged then you would run into people that wouldn’t by your product because it could be seen as “germy candy that other people have touched". In other articles that I didn’t annotate it talked about how there might be "legality issues with reselling candy at school".

I have changed my views slightly on the candy side of it and have switched it towards baked goods. I have looked up the laws, met with the principle and have asked former booster club members what is legal and what isn’t. From the research I’ve done there is quite a bit of controversy surrounding the selling of candy at school however selling baked good is a lot different. Selling baked goods that you made isn’t illegal, it’s only really illegal when you sell something you have already previously bought from a store for a higher price than when you bought it.

As far as when people might think that I am going to have a tough time keeping track of the money, I would tell them that I am very confident that I can keep track of it. I’m taking a college level math class and accounting and are getting good grades in both. I will count my money twice every night and make sure that all of my transactions add up. Taking on a more difficult and challenging project is one of the reasons that I picked this project, however I believe that this project is completely do-able at the same time. I picked this project because I feel confident in all the things that I’ve learned this year and wanted to find a way to apply them in real life and this was the perfect way for me to do that.