What is our story?

Our business started out with a little idea our teacher in a business class had. Our teacher mentioned starting our own business and said we should start a laser engraving business. He said that it would give us real life experience and trying it out for ourselves could teach us so much more. We never thought we could actually pull it off and are still amazed we did it. 

We started out by doing research on the kinds of machines we could get. We spent many hours figuring out the best thing for us. We ended up finding one that someone in our community was selling. As a class, we took a mini field trip to go and look at the laser. They showed us how it worked and all the cool things it could do. We found this very interesting and really started to get things rolling.

We then started to think of ways we could pay for this machine. We needed to come up with some money but didn't know how. We made calls with other schools and other businesses around the country to figure out how they got started. We found other schools that had started businesses right from the classroom and contacted them.

We made a list of all the possible businesses in our community that would we thought would be willing to donate. We spent weeks making phone calls to those businesses and telling them about our plan and how much money we needed to raise. The businesses in our community were so willing to help us out. We were able to raise $11,000 just from donations. We are so thankful for our awesome community. Without them, none of this would be possible. As a class, we discussed our purpose for this business.  We want to give back to our great community. Our community members donate tons of money to our little school every year and we want to be able to reduce the fatigue of donating. 

While we were raising money, we were also trying to figure out the best machine for us to buy. We ended up finding another machine that would work better for us. Someone in our community had that same machine and was generous enough to let us come take a look and showed us how it worked. We decided that that machine was the best one for us and what we needed it for. We purchased the machine and some inventory. We spent hours preparing ourselves for when the machine arrived. We had video calls, watched YouTube videos, and did lots of research. When the machine arrived, we got it setup and had more video calls to figure out how to run it. We then started making designs and messing around with our new machine. After we figured things out, we were able to start making products.