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6A | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2020 | SIUSLAW NEWS 2020 Siuslaw Regional Scholarship Awards Ceremony: Western Lane Community Foundation: Dr. Brittany Hartzell-Baguley Award – Jared Northrop, a four-year renewable scholarship John Seaver Scholarship – Hannah Rannow, four-year scholarship Jack & Bobbie Saubert Award – Kelsey Larson Marteen Wick Memorial – Tiffany Hine Pony Ellingson Award – Trinity Holmes & Theryn Schwertferger Art & Jean Koning Award – Kaleigh Anderson & Ricky Loza-Sanchez Joan Orr Award – Amelia Wells & Ramiro Ramirez Alan & Virginia Robertson Award – Chloe Madden Pat Knipe Memorial Award – Elissa Hurley Beachcomber Dan Barnum Award – Lindsey Long, , Brayson Myrick, & Caleb Hennessee Roger & Sherry McCorkle Scholarship – Olivia Olmstead Justin Black Scholarship – Lillian Wells Hal & Lee Hylton Scholarship – Nina Aaron Johnston Family Scholarship – Jonah Jarman Elmer Waite Scholarship – Brooklyn Cahoon Willard Myers Scholarship – Caleb Hennessee Nolan & Lucille Huntington Scholarship – Layla Blakely Dick & Barbara Whitmore Scholarship – Margot Fleming Larry & Florence Englund Scholarship – Zachary Stinger Noel & Mary Dobyns Scholarship – Wendy relocate and actually come back to their home area. A lot of times, in small rural areas, we lose some of our students because we don’t have the economy to provide them a living wage. This kind of gives students the opportunity to say ‘Hey, I have this business idea and I can actually make this hap- pen here in my local area.’” Burruss initially took the class because she thought it looked cool. “There’s some classes that look more challenging than others, and this one look more challenging,” she said. “I wanted something more challenging. I thought it would be interesting.” One of the events students were able to participate in was the Virtual Business Scholarship Challenge, a national competi- tion where students would build their own virtual business, and be able to see how they might perform in the real world. “We were going to start doing it in class, but the coronavirus shut down all the schools,” Bur- russ said. “Miss Walker emailed the business class and told us the instructions. People who wanted to do it, did it.” Burruss thought it would be fun, so dove in. Competitors get to choose different businesses, from grocery stores, electron- ics and sporting goods. Burruss picked grocery stores at first. “I found grocery stores very hard to run in the simulation at least. I don’t know how true to life it was,” she said. “But I wasn’t making much profit, so I ran an electronics store.” She would set her business online, including price margins. And then a computer simulation would run the store with staff coming in and out. “After a week, you would look at reports on how your store was doing and you would look at if you had enough employees, or too many employees. You would look at customer comments,” Burruss said. “I liked the custom- er comments a lot. And then you make your adjustments and then play it for another week. And you’d advertise. Basically, it’s sim- ulating you running a business.” Burruss looked at the process as a puzzle, making profits and reality fit together. “Puzzling how to make a prof- it was really cool, and learning about all the ins and outs of do- ing business,” she said. She learned two hard rules so far. “You definitely don’t want to be understaffed,” she said. “If you are understaffed, then there aren’t enough people to help the customers and check them out, so a bunch of people leave be- cause there’s no help.” She also stressed advertising, “It gets the customers to your store.” Burruss did well with the store, having it earn over $15 million dollars over the course of the simulation. While she didn’t win, Walker praised Bur- russ’ dedication to the project, and honored her with a Class Achievement Award. For the last assignment, stu- dents had to develop a business pitch with a catch. “Instead of creating an entire business plan, they’re going to be coming up with a product or service that would thrive during the pandemic and afterwards,” Walker said. “They’re thinking about Mapleton retail stores and online stores. They want it to be an essential business that could stay open during the pandemic.” Since the shutdowns began, the class has been talking about the differences between those businesses that sell luxury items and those that sell essential ones. But Burruss’ experiences with grocery and electronics stores showed how difficult a position the economy as a whole, and small towns like Mapleton, are in. “If you’re functioning in a COVID-19 scenario, some of the electronics stores aren’t do- ing as well as the grocery stores,” Walker said. “When the econo- my is doing poorly, people still need to buy groceries. They need to buy products that help them wash their clothes. They’re probably not going to be buying a lot of expensive cars. They’re not going to be getting the new- est iPhone. Anything that could be considered a luxury item, I think they’re realizing they could be big money makers when the economy is doing well, but when it’s doing poorly, those are things that might just have to go out of business entirely, depending on what the business is.” One way to stay afloat without going the route of food distribu- tion was online, be it food deliv- ery apps or selling products from a marketplace. “I think that would be a new way it might change,” Burruss said. “You might have a lot more jobs open in tech fields. Making websites and programing this and that, that kind of thing. But if you’re going to make a busi- ness whose goal is to help build the economy, you’d have to find employees in Mapleton who are good at tech and business. That would be kind of a unique job that is not super common around here, as far as I know.” And that’s just some of the is- sues that Mapleton and the entire region will be grappling with in the coming months and years. “It’s been a really great oppor- tunity to talk about business and how closures have affected busi- nesses, and which businesses are still doing well, or doing excep- tionally well, during the closure, and which businesses are doing very poorly,” Walker said. “And looking at how the pandemic has affected the economy as a whole. Really getting them to take a look at how national and global situ- ations can affect national busi- ness.” And it’s helping students think about the future. “Now the students are having the opportunity to think about all those things and come up with a business idea that could be started during this pandemic, but also something that can con- tinue to be successful, even after the pandemic is over,” Walker said. While the class has got them thinking, the future is anything but certain. “It’s kind of hard to tell that right now,” Burruss said. “Every- thing is changing so much daily because of coronavirus, that it’s really hard to assess what it’s go- “A little while ago, we wouldn’t have to think of any of this,” she said. “And so I think kind of right now, it’s the work you need to do to ensure you could have a good future. And hope that stuff stabilizes out and hope it’s okay when you need a job.” OLD D SCHOOL OL RECLINE & REWIND WITH POWER BOOST FABRIC AND LEATHER 1550 6TH ST. & HWY 101 MONDAY—SATURDAY 10-5 541-997-9424 LAUREL BAY GARDENS! 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