This school year, a new club has joined Woodside’s roster, business club, which will be held on A-day Thursdays in E-11.
Business club is a part of many other schools, but has only recently joined our school. The club was started with plans to create a community for people interested in business.
“People are supposed to learn about business in a fun, unique way, and it will help you in the future if you want to go into business,” co-founder and co-president of business club, Liam Niu said.
Beginning due to prior interest and knowledge, the club aims to teach members about different aspects of business.
“We started a business club to get people involved and get people interested in starting a business and learning about it. We’re also interested in business,” co-founder and co-president of business club, Jordan Lee said. “We have some prior knowledge [about] it.”
This summer, Niu, Lee and their friends came up with the idea of starting their own business club. Jesse Manzo, AVID and social studies teacher, is the advisor for the club and was reached out to by the club leadership at the beginning of the year.
“When they came to me to try and sell me to be the advisor, they had this grand idea, planned this scheme,” Manzo said. “It’s just a lot of excitement. So that’s one of the reasons why I dove in and decided to be the advisor.”
Although the club is just starting, there are many plans for future competitions and activities to engage students.
“It’s in progress, but we do want to eventually do competitions and stuff like that, and fun games and Shark Tank sort of games,” Niu said.
Many things have to happen behind the scenes in order to start a new club. Between setting up lessons and coming up with ideas for future meetings, club leadership has been working hard.
“I have been working on making slideshows, and brainstorming ideas, and we want to do some fundraising potentially,” Niu said.
Manzo has advised a club similar to business club. Although he has done something similar, he is still unfamiliar due to the youth of the club. He still hopes to learn more as the club starts.
“This is my first time kind of overseeing this [club],” Manzo said. “I think a year [or] two ago, I was the advisor for an economics club, so I will see what the differences are.”
Expectations are high, and the club is excited for what they have in store during their first year.
“We’re hoping to get a lot of people interested and grow a good community with a lot of other people,” Lee said.
