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El Segundo students sell homemade goods, services at Young Entrepreneurs Maker and Talent Fair
Summary
Students and youth-run booths filled El Segundo High School as the Young Entrepreneurs Maker and Talent Fair grew to 88 booths this year, organizers and participants said. Vendors ranged from homemade food and crafts to a student-run window-cleaning service and a club that assembles birthday supply kits for homeless shelters.
El Segundo — Students and youth vendors filled El Segundo High School for the Young Entrepreneurs Maker and Talent Fair, where local schoolchildren sold homemade goods, displayed inventions and practiced basic business skills, organizers and participants said.
The event began three years ago after one parent said she created a pop-up market to give children a place to sell items when an adult market stopped accepting kids. “That just sort of steamrolled this brainchild,” the parent organizer said, and the fair has grown from 41 vendor booths in its first year to 61 the next year and 88 this…
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