Tanque de Tiburones
Source/Author: Earl Walton, Dir of the Ross Roeder Institute
February 15, 2024
Sustainable school uniforms made from Bamboo....
A boat washing franchise...
A 6-in-1 shampoo...
Mobile car servicing...
A better parking app for downtown St. Pete...
Ski goggles that don't fog up....
Which business would you back?
When Shorecrest launched the Ross Roeder Institute for Financial Literacy, Economics, Entrepreneurship (RRI), one of the first emails Earl Walton, Director of RRI, received was from Upper School Spanish Teacher Marina Pallares. She wanted to teach more business-focused communications, and get her seniors excited about the last year of Spanish class. The Tanque de Tiburones (Shark Tank) was born.
Earl explained, “I had the great pleasure of working with Marina and her students as they crafted unique and interesting business ideas, built a lean business plan, walked through start-up costs and how to make a compelling pitch for the incoming shark.”
Pedro Suriel, SVP Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Raymond James, brought his 20+ years of brand and consulting experience to the classroom. The pitch and follow up questions were all in Spanish and the results were amazing.
"Problems were solved by great ideas. That was the challenge, so there was no winner or loser – there was success across the board," Suriel shared.
The faculty would like to extend a huge Thank You to Pedro for his time, humor and insight for our students.
Do you want to be a Shark at Shorecrest?
