Browse Our Start-ups

Our Entrepreneurship program is a rigorous guide to becoming an effective and profitable business leader in your community. We offer classes for 7th-12th graders.

Every Entrepreneurship student has the opportunity to create a business plan and pitch it to receive funding and begin their small business.

Here is our catalog of success stories:

  • Joy Soap Co. provides bath products that are not only good for your skin and body but for our community. We hand make the soaps and scrubs in class and give a portion of our profits back to the community through Gospel Village. They are a center for the previously homeless, their purpose is to be “A Christ-centered community providing a home and micro-enterprise work opportunity to the formerly homeless at Gospel Village.” Hope and Ellie like to smell good and there is no better way to do that other than making them yourself. On top of our regular goat’s milk soap bars we added five new products this year; bath salts, body butter, liquid soaps, perfume rollers, and sugar scrubs. We have our original six scents including abundance, clarity, playful, refresh, restore, and warmth.

  • Chance Yard & Jace Kimbrell

    JC Customs is a business dedicated to fulfilling kids dreams of having high end trucks and cars for the cost of little. We modify toy cars to your liking. We both have a love and passion for cars and hot rods. We have made this brand specify for adults and kids that love cars just as much as we do.

    We spend lots of time thinking and making ideas for the next car . It's all about what the next car will look like and how we will do it. Every time we make a car we think the kid or adult will love what we are making. Here at JC customs our goal is not to make all the money, but to make our customers happy with what they are getting.

  • At 1954 Apparel, we believe students should be able to be comfortable with what they wear but still have cute clothes. As students at LCS we struggle to find clothes that we can express ourselves with because of the dress code — so that is what we are here for. We design and embroider the hoodies, quarter zips and crewnecks ourselves. All of the apparel we produce is approved by the administration.

  • Katie Coleman & Emma Wilkinson

    K & E is the solution to the problem of girls not having the direct opportunity to have cute and colorful earrings all the time. We are passionate about crafts. This is a way to express our style so that other girls can too. When we are ready to start the work, we roll out the clay and stamp all different kinds of shapes. We then bake the earrings, glue the backs on, and then put them on the shelf. Our ultimate goal is to produce and sell as much as we can to keep the shelves full. We want to help other girls express their style for everybody to see, for an affordable price.

  • Emmett Diaz, Parker Nall, Ridge Rhoden

    My friends and I have grown up fishing and love it. We are passionate about our business because we like to fish. We all agree that whenever we go fishing we're missing that one lure. That is why we created RPE. So that every fisherman can have that one lure they want. We make hand made lures to order. Our ultimate goal is to make a fisherman's day better.

  • Adrienne Houghton

    My name is Adrienne Houghton and I am the founder of The Chocolate Lab. I have three dogs at home and they love their food. I am a person who loves chocolate and I found it sad that chocolate is poisonous to dogs. I set out on a mission to create a chocolate that dogs and people alike would enjoy. I developed my own recipe - peanut butter, bacon bits, anything that dogs like and is good for them. And guess what? People can eat and enjoy it too! My mission is finally complete. Enjoy!

  • Noah Williams & Grace Pierce

    We at Random Workshop love candles, but we always had a fun style too. Normal jar candles just don’t make the cut. So we set out to make a candle that was fun, aesthetic, and still smelled good. And that is what we did. We make eye-catching candles that still get the job done. Our candles look good as decoration to fill any room but also can cure the smell of any space.

  • Heidi Burns & Kinley Lawson create custom water bottle designs.

  • AJ Waldman


    When you're fishing, you want to have a comfortable shirt that doesn’t give you problems AND a shirt that is just plain and is like every other. My fishing shirt has a custom logo that is different from that other shirt that you have. My shirt has a soft feeling that is comfortable and a custom logo which gives you that next step in fishing apparel. I order my products in all sizes and are a dri fit shirt. I make the logo with a cricut vinyl cutter, and I then iron them on myself. My goal for my business is to give someone a shirt that is different than any others and to make you stand out from others. I love wearing fishing shirts and I like to make them and I want to share that experience with other people too.

  • Jackson Castano-Oliva

    Sock Customz solves having the plain, bland socks everyone wears. My motivation is for people to be able to stand out and have their own style. I get high quality socks, hand dye them, dry them, and pack them in unique empty paint cans. My goal is for people to stand out in what they wear.

  • Melina Soumelidou

    Sunny Day Slimes is focused on providing customers with playable, non-sticky slime. The idea started in 2022, back when I got my first slime. It was, to put it mildly, a mess. This motivated me to start a business making good quality slime that all our customers can enjoy. Our products are made with glue, diluted borax, safe dyes, and butter slimes also include soft clay. We hope that we are able to fulfill your needs of something satisfying and fun to play with. Thank you for considering a purchase from us!

  • Twelve Months of Joy is a stand up desk calendar inspired by design and color! Each calendar provides customers with an inspirational quote, monthly reflection prompt, and a quick view of each month. Brinley Clark, founder of “Twelve Months of Joy,” is passionate about mental health advocacy. She hopes to give her customers motivation through her colorful, hand designed product. The business believes in thoughtful design, and enabling conversation.

  • Ma’Kai Bracelets was founded in 2023 by Gianna Martin and Easton Durden. Ma’Kai’s main goal is to create quality, affordable bracelets for your everyday life. We first carefully select a color palette that revolves around feel-good colors. Followed along with hand tying and knotting your bracelets. Ma’Kai focuses on quality and durability followed by affordable prices. Our main goal is to spread positivity along with style.

  • Ansleigh Barnes & Alex Lund

    We are a business that sells hydrating and healthy lip glosses. We are helping girls, have hydrated lips all day. We love making lip glosses because we love makeup and we also want girls to feel confident in themselves. We hand mixed and put the flowers inside, we also made the recipe. Our ultimate goal is to sell as much as we can, and help girls all over campus. I hope you will help support our business.

  • Handcrafted, high-quality luxury ballpoint pens. Brady Lowers crafts the wood, acrylic, and entire pen by hand.

  • Hand-sewn pillows to make life subtly more soft!

  • Hand-crafted meal plans and recipe sourcing for busy families.

  • Scarlett Spann, Eden Battaglia, and Eliza Spence
    We focus on the problem of plain backpacks or boring bags. We are passionate about teamwork and partnership. We work together and we enjoy doing it. We make the keychains with a Glowforge machine that cuts and engraves our keychains. Our ultimate goal is for people to enjoy their keychains and we also hope to sell out!

  • Everyday, LCS students complain about how hungry they are. We wanted to create chocolate covered snacks that are easy to access, handmade, and delicious for all LCS students to enjoy. We are passionate about our business, E & E’s Everything Chocolate, because we both love to bake treats and be creative with food. We produce our products by melting chocolate, then dipping everything in the chocolate and allowing them to harden, then we decorate and lastly package. Our ultimate goal for our business is to produce and sell good quality treats, and for people to enjoy all of our products.

  • Thrive fills the void that is inexpensive, creative jewelry. Not only is it hard to find jewelry that is suitable to most peoples taste, it is also hard to get good quality jewelry. We’re passionate about Thrive because it allows us to show our love for jewelry. We’re able to create unique pieces customers love and wear often! Thrive jewelry takes a coastal look at classic, trendy jewelry in order to deliver a carefully curated collection to customers. We order carefully selected pieces from online sites and when they arrive we handcraft individual pieces to fit different styles and requests. We hope to become a well-liked and profitable business that has a large customer base.

  • Jax Gregory & Dallas Denton

    The Pencil Utensils business started with the terror of studying in school. We, as middle school students, know the struggles of studying whether it be Math or History. So we made affordable school materials with a fun, colorful twist on it. Our most beloved product is the engravable pencil where we use a high precision laser to engrave a pencil with your favorite color. We do this via a Glowforge and computer and a lot of safety precautions. As of March we have sold almost fifty dollars in products and are close to breaking even. We plan to break even and make profit by the end of April.

  • Jiliana Stabler & Piper Streets
    The problem we solve is boredom we make fun and colorful tops and pencil cases. Many people have boring pencil cases or just get bored easily so that's why we are here. We are passionate about what we do because we believe that fun, creative, and classy toys and pencil cases are what people need. We hand paint the pencil cases and we drill the tops and hand paint them. We like to be creative and that is why all of it is hand painted. We want to make enough money that we can donate some of the money we make.

  • Isabella Norris brings student-run businesses to life with her Cricut vinyl designs.

  • Notably allows the average busy, multitasking person to be prepared and organized, providing the comfort of never having to worry about showing up to a party empty-handed. Brooklyn and Mckenna have always had a passion for designing and are always planning for the next thing. In turn, they have used this passion to make appealing out-of-the-box cards and lists for a variety of holidays and events. Over a large course of time, the cards were originally and specially designed through an online source. They are then printed onto premium cardstock, folded, and orderly packaged into boxes. The ultimate goal for Notably is to provide an aesthetically pleasing resource for people to remain equipped, and to thrive. Overall, our company is built on the word of God, and the verses within the stationary are meant to inspire every buyer to have peace in Christ.

  • Jack Calhoun, Caleb Pitzen, Dylan Brewington, Oliver MacDonald, and Evan Grieger

    We are a business that had no clue how to run a business but that didn’t stop us. It solves Lakeland Christian School’s sweet tooth problem. We are passionate about giving kids a “DOCCE” of sugar and filling them with joy. We buy a big pack of gummies, package them and put them on the shelves. Our ultimate goal is to make a lot of money and give it to a charity. This is a fun business to run and hope we can keep on doing it for years to come. We hope you can stop by and get yourself a pack of gummies.

  • Nowadays, stickers are cheap gifts that are forgotten about or never used. Limited customization and cheap materials lead to a dull and meaningless adhesive piece of paper. The Sticker Project is an experiment to discover if endless designs and handmade stickers can make an impact. We feel a sticker is a great way for one to express themselves and should reflect what they are passionate about. The Sticker Project not only creates long lasting stickers but we bring ideas to life. The glossy look and high quality adhesive paper helps illuminate the design or the idea that you want and turns heads. Whether it's a motivational quote to help you through your day or a design to make you smile, there's a sticker for you.

  • Alex Attaway & Nicolas Poblete

    Many people are not informed about music. We are passionate about this podcast because we love music and we love sharing music with other people. We make our podcast using Anchor and all our episodes are on Spotify. Our podcast will also talk about upcoming LCS events. We will also make playlists on Spotify with a variety of music. Our goal is to share a variety of music with our listeners!

  • Ava Hedges


    Welcome to Teal Elephant! My business is about clay mirrors and the passion for beauty. Clay mirrors are air dry clay with designs and square mirrors for your locker. My unique, magnetics locker mirrors eliminate the need for girls to rush to the bathroom between class just to look in the mirror. The reason for my business is to make girls feel like they are worth it and beautiful! My ultimate goal for my business is for girls to feel beautiful.

  • Audrey Hiott & Rory Rhoades
    We understand the problem of finding a cup that you like while being school approved. Our business solves that problem, we have white metal tumblers and clear plastic tumblers that the school has approved. We can do custom orders so that our customer is happy with their own personalized tumbler. We are passionate about our business because we know the struggle to find a cup that works with everything. We plan to produce our tumbler using the cricut and ordinary cups from amazon to make them into something greater. We take your dream tumbler idea and make it a reality. Our ultimate goal is to satisfy our customers and make $200 profit by the end of the year.

  • Hali Vatikiotis & Davanee West
    HD Coasters is solving the problem of condensation rings left on furniture. We really enjoy experimenting with different styles and colors for our coasters! Our tile and wood coasters are being customized to everyone's liking! Our goal is to break even, and make a profit as well. Davanee and Hali make coasters every day, continuing to produce quality products for everyone. HD Coaster’s ultimate goal is to ensure products are quality and being focused on marketing and selling, as well as making sure every customer is satisfied.

  • Knitted pillows by Braxton Herron.

  • Giovanna Coers, Lia Simmons, ANna Kate Oates
    Our vision for our business is to provide affordable and stylish scrunchies, for any type of hair. Girls need something to keep their hair out of their face, and our product is the solution! We use innovative and professional methods to create the perfect product. A needle, thread, and fabric is all we need to solve your problems. Making these products is what we are passionate about. This passion is what led us to the scrunchie industry!

  • Madison Thomas
    Madison’s Macrame is solving simple daily challenges we face everyday, whether it's trying to decorate your room, find a cute simple keychain to match your bag, and even the cup ring on your nightstand that just won’t go away. I am passionate because my products are simple, affordable, and high quality. I have always had a passion for macrame because the designs and ideas are endless. I use macrame cord, wooden rings, and a brush to make the simple colorful wooden ring decoration for your car, room, or wherever else you need a little color. Madison’s Macrame is committed to unique, high quality, affordable products to express your colors and match with anything and everywhere you want

  • Branded athletic gear.

  • Lillian Elliot
    LE.Succulents.Co is a Sole Proprietorship owned by Lillian Elliott. The store includes many different painted pots with all kinds of succulents planted in them. The production system is off of propagating all kinds of succulent leaves. I have always loved growing plants and seeing how many plants one plant can produce. A lot of people want to have a nice decorated space with a plant, but have hard times keeping certain plants alive. Succulents are the easiest plants to keep alive, and with LE.succulents.co mission to paint pots with different styles, you will have a decorated place in no time. The overall focus is to let people be able to have a brightened space with their own unique style.

  • Charlotte Francks & Alanna Cunha
    The problem my business wants to solve is where plant can be most plants need to in sunlight or outside but air plants don't. They just need water every 1-2 weeks. We are passionate about it because we think plants need to be both beautiful and seen. We made them to were they are hanging but will not fall.We buy air plants and hanging pots to make them look a little better.To make places look more modern but fun and cute.so in conclusion we are making them to help make places look more modern.

  • Pretty in Pink was created to give car owners a cute and useful car freshener. I created this business because I love to decorate my car, and make it smell good, which means I was always looking for a cheeper alternative to the expensive car fresheners that all smell the same. My business sells homemade products are made out of quality supplies that help give your cars a fresh new scent. That is why the goal for my business is to help people find decor to help spice up their car.

  • Taytum Raburnn & Brianna High
    Our business was founded in 2023 by creative, positive, organized, and passionate 6th grade students. Our problem we are solving in the world is boring lights. People have plain, non-colored lights that are not fun at all. We have fun, bright, colorful neon signs that can brighten your space. We are passionate about what we are doing because we are confident in ourselves and think we can have what it takes to make sales and a profitable business. We make our product out of clear acrylic, super glue, and LED colored lights! Our ultimate goal for our business is to sell all our signs to make a profit! We hope that you will help support our business!

  • As a kid, I would like to be outside and play in a nice yard with my family. Sometimes, the yard wasn't organized or cleaned, so I thought that it should be cleaned up a little bit. As I got older, I wanted to clean yards for real for real so I decided to ask my dad to help me understand lawn care service. Then I started doing lawn care for family and helping the elderly. I now do lawn care as my business and I’m living life and having fun doing it . I believe that if you want your landscape done the right way, call me any time.

  • Eastyn Newell, Brooklyn Strawbridge, Kinsley Brock, and Rylan Rollyson
    Bloom & Co. solves the problem of students not having school supplies they like. We are passionate about our business because we are students and this problem is very large in school. Everyone in our school struggles with this problem and we want to solve it. Everyone in our business has a job whether it is making pencils or notebooks. We make our product by printing the design, cut the paper, cut holes, and lastly spiral it all together. To make the pencil we have white pencils and everyone can order customized pencils. We use something called the Glowforge, an engraving machine. Our ultimate goal is to make students and teachers everywhere to enjoy their school supplies every day!

  • Restore helps fulfill the common issue of tiredness amongst students. As business owners, we are passionate about Restore because of our love for coffee and learning about running a business. We are in partnership with Color Theory Tea and Patriot Coffee to source out teas and coffees. We have a coffee cart and our customers will be able to order online and pick it up once it is made. Our ultimate goal for this business is to learn how to run a business. Also, how to be able to handle and obstacles or challenges we may face.

  • Claire Wilson
    Do you want your room to smell fresh? You have come to the right place, we have home fragrances to meet your needs. Arden Co. helps you when you're stressed or when you just need a calming refreshing moment. Home fragrances make me feel relaxed and refreshed. My product is organic and does not contain any chemicals. Arden Co. is made with pure essential oils and a passionate heart for self care.

  • Christian Cano & Banks Houghton
    We made this business for people who want to catch fish instead of standing around catch nothing. We wanted to make this because we have wasted too much time to not catch any fish. Our fishing lures are one of the strongest materials — so they won't break. Our ultimate goal for this business is to make top tier lures and people to catch big fish.

  • Brody Ray

    A common problem in the world is people not being able to show off their love for sports. So I thought there had to be a solution. The solution I came up with was Ball Out Customs, a sports bumper sticker business. I am passionate about it because I play sports. The way I make them are using cricut cuts. My ultimate goal is to become profitable. Another one of my goals is to take my business to next year.

  • Kennedy Bagwell & Riley Merritt
    Many phone case businesses make cheap and non-durable products. We are solving that problem by making cases that are durable and don't scratch when they are dropped. It is also hard to find customizable cases so we are providing people with a business that sells them. We are passionate about making a product that will make people happy. We also want to create a product that people can use to express themselves. We use the cricut that we are provided to make designs that we put on the phone cases by hand. Our ultimate goal is to make people happy and pleased with our product.

  • Amberly Lane & Ja’Via Donaldson
    Tropical Sugar is a business that was started in 2021. In 2022 we realized that not all people are able to come into contact with the artificial ingredients that we were using. The two owners of the business had family who suffered from illness that prevented them from using the scrubs. They decided to make their scrubs fully natural and better than what it was the year before. They used natural organic ingredients whilst still making great scrubs. Now everyone can use the scrubs without worrying about being hurt or getting sick. The owners are still working hard to improve on Tropical Sugar!

  • Alena Varela
    That Dog Business was founded in 2023, and is run by Alena Varela. I found it annoying having to go out and find the bandannas that my dogs ripped off each other. So I came up with a product that stays on a dog's collar without coming off. Plus it's reversible so you can get more for less. We sell small, medium, and large reversible bandannas. We also take custom orders for any specific colors you want. Our goal is to keep your dog safe and for you to not go hunting for a bandanna any further than our store.