Chamber Breakfast Meeting On the 31st of January seven students from our Technology & Entrepreneurship class went to the Chamber of Commerce Breakfast at the Lima Civic Center where local business professionals come to engage with other professionals and learn new tactics on how to better their own businesses. Something we all gained from this experience is how many great opportunities business has to offer for many age groups. We

Our Experiences at the Women in Business Conference On December 5th 2019, five members of Grit 9 attended the Women in Business Conference at the Lima Civic Center. This conference opens up new doors for students to get experience in the real world with many different businesses, to help with communication skills, and to network. Insights from Students Two of the five members wrote a short paragraph of their experience

Grit9 Winter Update 11/13/19 A Chilling Sale! It’s Winter time again, and with the season comes Grit9’s (now annual) Winter Sale! With 15% of all web plans, a new limited edition tier of VHS digitization and 15% off all photo scanning orders over 500 photos you aren’t going to want to miss this! This sale will run through February 5, 2020. Some Freezing Updates! With this sale and season comes

“Design your dream professional development…” “…anywhere in the world, develop yourself as a teacher. Don’t focus on the students, focus on yourself as a professional.” Those are the paraphrased instructions of the Fund For Teachers grant I received in January 2019.It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Application I learned of FFT through a friend of mine, Grant Knowles. He received the grant the year before. For the 2019 cohort, 490 grants were awarded

Emotional Intelligence is a Better Predictor of Success than Intelligence        For years people believed that the main way to find if people would be successful was to look at their IQ. More recently it was discovered that emotional intelligence is better, it shows your ability to communicate and recognize social situations around you. Unlike IQ, EIQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) can be trained to become better at, it’s