Emma Pitcher
About Me
Hi! My name is Emma Pitcher, the daughter of Ted and Cherilea Pitcher. I am a sixteen year old junior at Newton Community High School. I am involved in chorus, marching and concert band, musicals, Spanish club, math club, Beta club, science club and the swim team. Outside of school, I enjoy playing piano and spending time with family and friends. I believe that CEO will teach me life lessons and entrepreneurial skills that I will need in the future. I am very excited for CEO this year and the adventures that await!
About My Business
My Featured Journal Entries
On Friday we visited Chris and Beth Probst farm. Chris spoke to us about his background and how he got into the cattle and grain industry. He told us that you have to manage your risk and be able to support yourself even if one business fails. Having grain and cattle allows him to balance himself out if one of the industries is having a bad year. My dad is the same way because we have a grain farm but he also co-owns a trucking company. Chris also shared with us that we have to accept failure and that if you are afraid to fail then you will not go anywhere. I think that learning from failure is huge in the growth of a person and a business because the next time you do something you would make the same mistake. Chris gave us a hand out of his book keeping and all the cattle and grain information he keeps track of. Seeing his financial layout helped me realize what mine should look like and was a good example for all of us.
03/02/2018
On Friday a group of students from last years class came to speak to us about our individual businesses and what they learned from CEO. We discussed types of advertising, the expo, and what their businesses were. I thought that hearing the feedback from another class was very helpful and it opened my eyes to all the possibilities there are. After we talked as a big group for a while, we split off into smaller groups with people that had businesses similar to the ones that we will be doing. I went to a table with Crayton Chestnut because he did piano lessons and since I am doing swimming lessons I thought that he would be able to help me the most. We discussed the expo and all that he had at his booth and that really helped me come up with some ideas of what I can do. We also talked about shark tank and what his experience was with that. Talking to the alumni helped me to get a better understanding of our individual businesses and it also relieved some stress that I have.
02/02/2018
Today we had another class day and worked on planning our student recruitment day. Student recruitment is when we go to the school on a class day and talk to other high school students about joining CEO next year. We are all going to be involved in this and I think that it will be a great way to tell our experiences and how we have improved because of CEO. I am glad that we all are going to be involved in this because it gives us all the chance to reach out to people. It is part of our job as current CEO students to reach out to others and invite them to do CEO next year. We also discussed some issues of the class business that needed addressed. I think that our communication is definitely getting better and I am seeing major improvement in individual communication as well as class communication.
11/09/2017