Flagstaff Youth Business Fair
Sunday, October 15, 2017
10:00AM - 1:00PM
Up to 40 businesses
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Do you have an idea, product or service that you want to share with the world?
The Flagstaff Youth Business Fair is the place for you! You'll be able to showcase your business, find customers, and compete for prizes to help launch and fund your business.
Apply for a booth by submitting your application to reserve your spot!
Christina Ching
🗓️ Started hosting in 2022
🚀 Has hosted 1 fair
This event is sponsored by The Peaks located in Flagstaff, AZ, the Acton Academy, the Acton School of Business, and the generous support of our donors and volunteers. We all believe that principled entrepreneurs are heroes and role models for the next generation.
Frequently asked questions
The Flagstaff Youth Business Fair inspires local youth to discover their inner entrepreneur. This one-day market gives them the opportunity to showcase their own businesses.
Start with our resources page. Read inspiring stories about other young entrepreneurs and play games to hone your business skills.
Application must be submitted online. Please submit one application for each business. Youth working as a group should submit one application that includes each person's information. No more than 3 participants per business.
The application asks you to think through some simple, but important elements of your business:
What product or service do you plan to sell?
What price will you charge for each product/service? How much will each product/service cost you?
How will you pay for your startup costs? If someone is helping you with your startup costs, how will you pay that person back?
How will you advertise/market your business before the fair?
At the end of the fair, how will you determine if your business was a success?
Two cupcake businesses? Not a problem. In general, we will let market forces play out, though we will let later entries know if another applicant has a similar idea so the later entrant can decide what to do.
The fair will be an event with booths. Each business will be given a booth. Please bring a table and 1-2 chairs, anything else needed to properly present your business idea. We are not able to accommodate businesses requiring electricity.
This event is designed to give our local youth the experience of selling a product or service. If a parent is found selling or promoting their child's product or service, their child’s business will be disqualified from the competition.
Parents of younger children may sit in the booth, but the youth business owner should be responsible for set up, customer interaction, and sales.
Parents may help their child fill out the application, but we expect the youth business owner to do as much as possible by themselves.
Jeff and Laura Sandefer and a few other families wanted to spark a sense of wonder and entrepreneurship in their children so they created the first Acton Children’s Business Fair in Austin, Texas, in 2007. That year, there were seven entrepreneurs and around 25 attendees. Now, there are over 115 entrepreneurs and 1,500 attendees at the Acton Children's Business Fair in Austin.
