On April 20th, we are holding a wheelchair basketball game at Mercer Island High School. Students and staff from Mercer Island and Newport will be playing the Junior Sonics Wheelchair Basketball Team from Seattle Adaptive Sports. There will also be a silent auction with great items from local businesses! Doors and auction open at 6pm in the commons. Game starts at 7pm in the gym.
See the promo video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__P9W8_lO0&feature=channel_video_title
For those of you who didn’t know, Mercer Trade Inc. is a publicly traded company. We are offering a single sale of stock at an IPO of $15. For the last 15 years, we have always had a positive return on investment. If you are interested in purchasing stock, please send an email to emilythramer@hotmail.com.
We have already had two video conferences with St. Augustine’s College in Ghana that went very well. The products we have selected to import include backpacks, wooden giraffes, drums, and custom bracelets. You can see pictures of the products below. Ghana has asked us for cameras, watches, polo shirts, video games, and iPods.
Our first conference with Shanghai got off to a bit of a rocky start as we tried to explain that we wanted to trade physical products. Despite technical errors and difficult communications, we were eventually able to swap lists of desired products to trade. We haven’t confirmed yet, but we hope to receive silk ties, ornamental chopsticks, wallets/purses, and watches. They requested sports clothing for American teams and other items that are distinctly Seattle.
The University of Washington Foster School of Business invited us to attend a lecture on Measuring Social Impact and Calculating Social Return on Investment. We learned a lot of very applicable information because we want to have social impact that we can actually measure. A number of businesses and organizations in the area presented how they created and measured their social impact.
We are very excited for the new International Entrepreneurship class offered this year. We have five students from Newport and one from Bothell participating in the class. Check out our class photo and some images from a team building ropes course we did last Wednesday! You can join our Facebook page at facebook.com/mercertrade to stay posted on what’s to come.
Mercer Trade competed in San Francisco against 13 other SAGE teams from California in the regional Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship competition last Saturday. Both our global venture and our commercial venture won third place, bringing in $25 each while our website placed second for a $75 prize. We met many interesting judges from as far away as Rwanda, Africa. Mr. Curt DeBerg, a professor at Chico State who started SAGE greeted us and we also met a group from Nigeria who we hope to establish a trading relationship with next year.
Sadiq, Samuel, and Habib from Nigeria whom we hope to trade with next year.
The products from Ghana have arrived! After sending them 10 polo shirts with the SAGE logo, 2 computer games, 3 iPod Shuffles, and a digital camera, we received hats, wristbands, jerseys, and t-shirts. If you are interested in purchasing the items, please visit Ms. Wiseley in the marketing department or send us an email at mercertrade@mercertradeinc.com.
Mercer Trade has submitted a t-shirt design for a competition put on by SAGE (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship) to promote the efforts SAGE is making to help children in Haiti. The prize is $500 and you can see our entry below.
Mercer Island High School to unveil their new student-initiated solar panel system on April 9th at 1:30 pm
Solar4MIHS: A Ribbon Cutting Under the Sun
Mercer Island High School Commons April 9th at 1:30pm
9100 SE 42nd Street Mercer Island, WA
Please join MIHS staff, students, administrators and the Mercer Island community for the unveiling of the high school’s new solar panel system. This community thank you event will feature Harry Bolson’s senior culminating project of sustainability and energy efficiency awareness. Fully funded by the Mercer Island community, the new solar voltaic display will offset the electricity consumed by the marketing department.
Here are links to some of the press Solar4MIHS has received:
A Ribbon Cutting Under the Sun: Students Bring Solar Power to MIHS
Mercer Island Student Brightens up School with Senior Project
