edcamp – Arun's Art

Yes, we did EdCamp again, and it was great. I guess you could say my wish came true that we would have another EdCamp. For this EdCamp, I did entrepreneurship with Alan Goldfarb, and Real Estate Investing with Adam Etra. Personally, I liked Alan’s lecture about what an entrepreneur does and how you’re never too young to have a business of your own. I liked his lecture because I’ve always had an interest in finance and business since my mom works on Wall Street, it kind of runs through my blood. At the end of Alan’s lecture we split into groups and tried to make our own group and my group decided that we would make our business a pizza place and since people have to wait a long time for other pizza places like Domino’s, (don’t think I hate Domino’s, I actually love their pizza) we would make a business where we have our pizza’s preheated and waiting in solar powered ovens because one of the people in my group said for marketing, we should have bio friendly items so ore people would want to come to our restaurant. Continue reading Edcamp Experience #2

I honestly thought that EdCamp was really fun because we got to learn about a bunch of stuff we didn’t know, all taught by parents. I would really like to do it again! My favorite lecture was when Julie DeGenero (one of the parents) taught a bunch of kids (including me) about her job as a prosecutor and in her lecture she talked about the law and some funny cases she’s taken when she just started working as a prosecutor. For example, one of the trials she’s been to was when a guy went to a kids petting zoo, and there was a llama there. But all of a sudden, he just started choking the llama. She didn’t tell us what happened to the llama, or if the guy went to jail, but it was really funny, but sad for the llama. Continue reading EdCamp Experience