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During the second and third week of camp, we began to introduce tools and machines. We wanted to give students a simple modeling project that would ease them into their use of the equipment and our safety rules and procedures.
Our design challenge was to brainstorm an innovative edible candy or sweet treat that could be marketed and sold in stores. The final prototype would be an over-sized model of the product, built out of foam, painted with acrylic paints and hung from the ceiling of the room by fishing line! Luckily, I ran into a very accomplished entrepreneurer over the summer, named Bridget Graham, who happened to have her own business along these same lines.
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Bridget is the owner of the company, Sweetable Eatables, and was the winner of the 2010 Entrepreneurial Expose’s competition for “Best Media Pitch.”
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As part of her business, Bridget has a patent for making floral arrangements in vases where the flowers are made of chocolate and the dirt is made of crushed cookies!
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A Sweetable Eatables Arrangement
Bridget is also a foreman(woman) on a construction site and owns properties in Philadelphia, making her quite the perfect role model for the all-girls group of Future Engineers who meet on Thursdays. So, we invited her in and she came and spoke about her experiences growing up and what led her to her current business, which tied in wonderfully with the design challenge. She even brought in tasty samples for us all to try!
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