This program starts with the universal product: a T'shirt.

 

Through understanding and experiencing all aspects of the T-shirt as a business, the participants will learn practical knowledge and experience that will help them procure and do well at jobs that will cross over many industries.

 

First, all potential participants will attend an introductory session that will

introduce all the steps taken to "get a shirt on their backs"-- concluding with

actually printing their own tee.

 

Second-the willing participants will join a team which will be set up like

a business. Kids will try to gain positions on a team, but instead of linebacker,

they may choose sales or graphic design.

Third--a team will function like a business, with individual responsibilities and 

collective goals.

    

Why t-shirts? 

1. Kids understand the product? 

2. It is easily capitalized and requires little space.

3. Kids could be good at it. They understand what "sells".

Some already have graphic skills - we want them to learn those skills can be marketable.

4. Adults will believe, (seeing is believing), kids can deliver them a functional product.

5. As simple as a t-shirt may seem to be, its commercial cycle involves most of the

operations included in any business.

--Planning and Organization

-- Product Development

-- Design and graphic skills

-- Procurement and Production

-- Cost Accounting and Bookkeeping 

-- Marketing and Sales

-- Leadership and Teamwork

 

To be clear, PAP is not intended to be theoretical, but to have operating businesses.The 

teams will develop products will sell and market them. What and to whom? We have our

own ideas, but let's leave that to the kids for now.

 

    the goal of PAP is not to be fun.

    the goal is to be successful.

    the lesson is, success is fun.