Economics and Entrepreneurship Meet for Greater Good
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A UNIQUE PROGRAM
Hutchison Invests equips girls with the foundation they need to build, lead, and navigate the world of entrepreneurship successfully. Focused on creative entrepreneurship, micro and macro economics, responsible investments, and the civic role of business and finance, this program explores the impact of positive social change in the business world. Girls will be given the space to discover their own ability to create value and contribute to the world as they solve problems that are real and matter to them. Having gone through this process, we want our girls to feel more empowered, inspired, supported and willing to take calculated risks.
Broaden your general knowledge base of business, finance and entrepreneurship through participation in Enterprise Society where you will dig into a myriad of topics including; economics, international marketing, design thinking, branding and business model generation. Enterprise Society members also run and operate the Holiday House Market which is an all-girls market that features budding upper school entrepreneurs who sell their products and services to Hutchison families, faculty and staff.
Learn how to identify and solve real and urgent problems that local businesses and entrepreneurs face by being immersed into a three-week cycle to design evidence-based solutions for the problem. The three-week cycle will be repeated as girls solve 2-3 different startup problems throughout the semester. Businesses and problems are selected so that the work is increasingly challenging and that a breadth and depth of learning terrain that touches all nine segments of the business model canvas is covered. This class is team-based and competitive and teaches critical thinking, analytical and creative problem solving skills that encompass science, technology, engineering and math through hands-on educational challenges.
Learn the value of investing, the purpose of stocks and how they affect the economy and our daily lives by joining the Hutchison Xchange. Members of “The Xchange” will spend the fall semester learning how to read stock tables, understanding the meaning of stock symbols, percentage points and profits and losses. At the beginning of second semester, members will get connected to the global economy through virtual investing and real world learning while competing against 25 other teams in TN in the stock market game.
Through the Philanthropic Literacy Board, upper school girls build and manage an endowment fund in partnership with the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis and then determine how to distribute grants to Memphis-area nonprofits. Participating on the board, girls learn about the formidable responsibilities that come with how and why particular projects and organizations receive funding. The student-run board solicits requests for proposals, evaluates applicants, and manages the grants once they are awarded.
One longstanding entrepreneurial tradition at Hutchison is the annual student-run Beeline Bazaar. Each year, the junior class enlists vendors for the event, manages and negotiates contracts, markets the event, and balances the budget. Proceeds from the bazaar directly impact the community through the Hutchison Community Service Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis.
Institute for Responsible Citizenship Coordinator/Hutchison Leads Assistant Director
This Assignment is a Sweet Deal!
Upper school entrepreneurs built a business packaging and selling the honey produced on Hutchison’s farm. Students worked out sticky details such as health regulations, packaging, distribution, and yes, harvesting the honey.
Upper school entrepreneurs built a business packaging and selling the honey produced on Hutchison’s farm. Students worked out sticky details such as health regulations, packaging, distribution, and yes, harvesting the honey.
Upper school entrepreneurs built a business packaging and selling the honey produced on Hutchison’s farm. Students worked out sticky details such as health regulations, packaging, distribution, and yes, harvesting the honey.
Hutchison girls are taking over the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art for a day! And the Native Voices, 1950s to Now: Art for a New Understanding, will be in excellent hands for this weekend’s Teen Takeover.
You could say the students in John Reynolds’ debate class are serious about working out. Working out mentally, that is. Reynolds calls it “stretching their brains.” Dakota Shelton '21 calls it “mental strength.”
Thinking globally is something we encourage our girls to do throughout their educational journeys. In middle school, thinking globally translates to the annual Model United Nations, a citywide event where students engage in civil discourse and open discussion of international issues through role play.
She was among the 27 high school girls honored this week by the Memphis Business Journal (MBJ) for their exemplary academic and extracurricular achievements and community involvement.
At first, Caroline Couch ’20 wasn’t sure what this past summer was going to look like. Some of the programs she had been interested in, hadn’t panned out. Then, suddenly in May, Caroline’s summer schedule got exponentially busier.
During her senior year at Hutchison, Brittany Trimble ’08 started charting her course. She emailed a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and said something along the lines of: “I hear you’re a fighter pilot, and I would like to be one. Please help me.”
Trimble admitted her note was a bit more formal than that. But that was the gist.
In her senior speech, Caitlin Robinson ’19 encouraged her classmates to be courageous by saying “We should stand up for what we believe in, even though we may face adversity.” Robinson believes in equality, and it shows in the work she does in the Memphis and Hutchison communities.
Samantha Tancredi ’18 spent her summer participating in a Hutchison Leads Fellowship that took her all over the world. From Geneva, Switzerland, to Seville, Spain, and Washington, D.C., Samantha spent her time researching the role of law in the business, political, and cultural worlds.
"I believe Hutchison has prepared me so well for any college experience, academically. Through my participation in the Science Research Fellows program, I have also discovered the areas of STEM that truly interest me beyond the classroom." - Monica Fleck '18
Emily Faber ’15 is currently a junior at Rhodes College and serves as the executive director of The Bridge, a student-run newspaper that benefits the homeless.
“I have to thank my eighth grade advisors for believing in me and showing me that there isn’t just one style of leadership. Anywhere else, a girl like me could have been lost in the background, but because of their help, I learned that a listener can be a leader and that I have a voice. I never would be the student I am today if it weren’t for the faculty.” - Anna Murrey '18
Hutchison is proud to announce that senior Owen Hergenrader has been named a finalist for the Wells Scholars Program at Indiana University Bloomington and a semifinalist for the Coca-Cola scholarship.
How do Hutchison upper school girls spend their summers? Senior Heather Guglietti spent hers exploring urban planning with a Hutchison Serves fellowship!
Girls like Porter Johnson excel through our Hutchison Leads program. Read about how Porter started her own year-long independent study project on development in Memphis after a well-established background in volunteering throughout the community as a Rogers Scholar.
Hutchison senior Sophie Merchant ’17 has been named a semifinalist in the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Sophie is one of 722 semifinalists selected from nearly 5,100 candidates. She is one of only three Memphis students to be named a semifinalist. Final scholars will be named later this month.