Photo Credit: Kelly Helner. The Virtual Enterprise class is selling their products at their booth in the Trade Fair.[/caption]Sunday and Monday, November 24-25, Kelly Helner’s Virtual Enterprise class traveled to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to compete in a website design competition, a booth design competition, and a salesmanship competition.
The winner of the website was announced around on Monday at 1 pm. High schools from all over the country come to show their websites and find out who has the best website. The OHS Virtual Enterprise class came in at 2nd place for web design. Ashley Blakemore, a member of the class, said, “I am very proud of our virtual company as a whole for our many accomplishments at the trade fair as well as those we achieve everyday in the classroom-- especially since this is only the second year the class has existed at Orange High School."
The competition helps to decide whose website is the best out of the high school classes. The classes are judged based on the way the website is designed and the activity on the website.
The class gets to set up a website and set up a business plan to sell their products to companies online. They get to set up a payroll, pay bills, and market to companies like a real business. They have a Twitter and an Instagram to market their company and they have a QR code.
Students from OHS were able to go to the competition. Every student in the class has a job to do. The jobs range from CEO to salesperson. Destiny Brooks, Jeffery Campbell, Morgan Efland, Autumn Crawford, Zachary Lloyd, Mary McAdoo, Matthew McLaughlin, Georgia McRae, Ashlyn Meeks, Alan Thompson, Jaden Vines, Dwyne Watkins, Sam Wade, and Braden Weber were some of the kids that went on the field trip.
Zach Lloyd is the web developer for the website. He works on the website and creates things to go on the website. Helner commented, “Our chief web designer, Zac Lloyd, was primarily responsible for the design of the website and did a fantastic job.” He created the QR code, which is a barcode you can take a picture of and have the website brought up on your phone, for the website.
Lloyd commented in an email, "When I was accepted to take this class, I immediately knew that I wanted to be the web developer. I have always been interested in building websites and the programming behind them, and our Virtual Enterprise class gave me an opportunity to pursue that interest. I had worked for about three weeks on our first website, coding it from scratch. We were getting nowhere and the deadline to begin selling to the other VE Firms was soon approaching. I was able to scrap our first website and build a completely new website in just under two weeks. After working so hard on our website, it was nice to be rewarded not only by my classmates, but by winning second place in the website competition at the TN Trade Fair."
To visit their website, go to http://theblendxedition.weebly.com/index.html.
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