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What is the Youth Makers Program?Youth Makers is a youth development program based around making and entrepreneurship. It is open to creative teens in grades 6th-12th. The Youth Makers program provides youth interested in making and selling their creations the opportunity to be a part of our local market system, but with the Amazeum’s support. This program provides the resources, and skills to navigate new and unexpected hurdles that come with selling creative work to a public market. The program will take place in the Fall and Spring.
Expand Your Skills: Learn new techniques, hone your creative abilities, and gain valuable insights into entrepreneurship.
Community Connection: Join a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for creativity and innovation.
Showcase Your Talent: Whether you're into crafts, art, or innovative products, Youth Makers is the perfect platform to showcase your talent.
This program is designed to fit a variety of interests, needs, and time availability levels. Youth Makers is an application-based program, however, the first workshop is free and open to any teen who wishes to attend. By attending the first workshop, the teen also waives their application fee to Youth Makers. The first workshop is held both at the Amazeum and throughout the community.
Upcoming Workshops: |
Homeschooler Workshops: |
| December 1, 2024 | 2 PM - 4:30 PM | |
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Kickstart Entrepreneurship is presented by:
Cox Communications
A selection committee then carefully reviews the applications to choose our class of teen makers. Those not chosen for the program are given the choice to receive feedback on their application. If chosen, participants agree to participate in Workshop 2, Open Make Times, the Soft Opening and the Youth Maker Market. The participant also signs a consignment agreement, wherein they receive 80% of the revenue from sales at the Youth Maker Market and the Amazeum collects 20%.
Application Deadline: December 8th, 2024
After being selected, each teen is required to participate in an additional workshop at the Amazeum. The second workshop is dedicated to one-on-one conversations about branding and the pricing of each maker's products. We also work with established community artists and makers that will answer questions about navigating the local market system. Each accepted teen will have a small budget to purchase supplies and tools.
The selected teens also have access to optional Open Make Times in the Tinkering Workshop at the Amazeum each Wednesday leading up to the market. During these times, the teens are invited to work freely on their products, learn new skills, use workshop tools and materials, build community with other teen makers, and receive mentorship on branding, pricing, or marketing.
The day before the market, an optional Soft Opening will be held for the market, where teens can set up their booths and practice selling to their close friends and family.
Finally, the Amazeum Youth Maker Market is held in two sessions, with half of the teen makers selling in the Tinkering Workshop in the morning and half in the afternoon. The market is open to the public and the Amazeum will collect the sales for each maker.
After the market, teens will receive a check in the mail for their portion of the revenue earned by the products they sold during the market. We hope participating teens leave feeling more confident in their craft and entrepreneurship abilities, readying them to enter the vibrant market system in Northwest Arkansas.
