Forget the canoes — some ‘campers’ navigate business

While many campers this summer are tying square knots, paddling canoes or weaving friendship bracelets, a growing number are instead drawing up business plans and generating personal budgets. At entrepreneur and finance camps from coast to coast, business is open.

Christian Burch, 10, was one of 10 children sponsored by the Greater Scott County Chamber of Commerce in Indiana to attend BizCamp, which is run for 9- to 11-year-olds by Junior Achievement in Louisville, Ky.

The children were assigned to run a fictional business for a week and participated in a role-playing game to try to pay off a bank loan and make the company profitable.

By JULIE BICK
THE NEW YORK TIMES

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