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finances within their community. As Holthouse discovered, these skills are not being taught in your average classroom. After the young entrepreneur has completed the lessons in the app, they get to put their skills to the test selling goods and services at the Lemonade Day Junior Market.

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At age 10, Elanor decided to participate and took the concept of Lemonade Day to heart, making a variety of lemonade beverages for purchase with her company, Fresh and Fizzed. At her booth she sold both regular and sparkling lemonade. As a good manager does, she sampled both products to make sure they were consumer-ready, and so she could share her favorite with the customers. “I continued on page 20

WE ARE solving the shortage of doctors in Washington continued from page 18 liked them both! I like sparkling drinks, so my favorite was the sparkling lemonade,” she said.

Lemonade Day targets kids age 6-16, but all children are welcome. In fact, last year a 5-year-old opened a booth selling her family’s duck eggs. She would get up every morning, collect them from her yard and make sure they were ready to sell. Kenefsky says that kind of ingenuity is not uncommon in Clark County. She is constantly amazed at the unique and exciting ideas she sees at the kids’ booths. She’s seen a lot of slimes, but also says, “We’ve had keychains, dog toys and cat toys, services. One kid put together a scavenger hunt, worked with local businesses, and had a prize,” recalls Kenefsky. Whatever the business, the critical part of the creative process is that it needs to be kid-led. “We want the kids to come up with the ideas. We want the parents overseeing it but not taking a very