High School Entrepreneurs Showcase Innovative Business Ideas in Tampa Bay

3DE Innovators Showcase

• 🎯 Over 120 students from six Tampa Bay high schools participated in Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay's 3DE Innovators Showcase.
• 💡 The event featured more than 30 business ideas developed by local high school students over the course of a year.

Student Business Concepts

• 🍲 Macro Meals aims to make comfort food healthier.
• 🧸 Focus Friend combines a timer with a stuffed animal to alleviate stress during timed tasks.
• 🚤 Life on Water is a service proposed as an Airbnb for boats, allowing owners to monetize underutilized assets.
• 👕 Terriers is a clothing line from Hillsboro High School designed to offer more trendy and fashionable merchandise than current school offerings.
• 🎙️ Friendly Fire is a career podcast from Deneden High School focused on providing advice for teenagers.

Event Purpose and Impact

• 🚀 Students were tasked with finding their passion and creating a product or service that solves a community need or enhances an existing offering.
• 🤝 The showcase provides an opportunity for students to engage with business professionals, educators, district leaders, and community organizations.
• 📈 Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay has a history of some student ideas evolving into real businesses.
• 🎤 One business idea from each school was pitched to executives from Raymond James, a major partner of Junior Achievement.