My name is Jasmine Johnson; I am a senior at Southmoore High School and I'm in
the Entrepreneurship program at Moore
Norman. My mom and dad always really
pushed me to take advantage of things
like concurrent enrollment at Moore
Norman because, not only are they free
but you're gonna get some real hands on
experience straight out of high
school, (with) some stuff that you can put on
your resume; the fact that you'll have a
resume and a business card.
At Southmoore High School I'm a part of Southmoore band.
I've played the tuba in the band for the past six years,
and then I've been in the color guard for the
past four years, as well as the winter
guard for the past four years. I've been
a member of Southmoore's STUCCO and also the Southmoore band leadership team.
I'm taking (English) Comp I right now which is also something else you can utilize
through Moore Norman is, you can take
some of the college classes on campus.
This next week we'll be attending DECA
State and so I'm hoping to, you know,
participate and do really well in those
events then we'll be heading to BPA
State and then hopefully, one of those,
nationals, and then graduation.
Through our DECA program I actually received first place in the state and then we
went on to nationals in Atlanta Georgia
which was just such an incredible
experience. And then I was actually named Top 16 in the nation. I got to go on the
stage and the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Each class has a hands-on piece, and the
hands-on piece and the Entrepreneurship
program is the Backroom Clothing Company.
The Backroom Clothing Company is a
retail store and we have people come in
and they donate clothes and they're very
nice suits and shirts and scrubs and
dresses and just anything you can think
of, and we repurpose them and make sure
that they look really nice, and we turn
our classroom into a retail store.
As a student here you'll be able to put on
your resume that you're a manager of a
school-based enterprise. You learn how to
bookkeep and tag slacks correctly,
and size clothes, and colorize clothes, and really just, run a store.
In this program you're gonna grow business skills and you're gonna
get to learn about the fundamentals of
business and everything that entails.
As a I got to high school I kept
participating in different student
organizations and through things like
DECA elections I got to give more
speeches got to write great papers, and
then when I got some Moore Norman in the
Entrepreneurship program we did a unit
over business communication and I was
absolutely in love. One of the first
things Ms. Pierce had us do at the
beginning of my junior year, she had
us make a dream board, and I put on
the dream board that I wanted to go to
the University of Alabama and march with
the Million Dollar Band Color Guard.
Three days after my application was
reviewed I was accepted into UA
which is just such a testament.
I will be auditioning for the University of
Alabama's color guard this coming up
April and that's something that I'm so
incredibly excited to do. I'm hoping to
be marching with a Million Dollar Band
next season.
I will actually be pursuing,
pursuing a public relations degree; the
communications college at Bama is
actually top five in the nation so it's
been a great accomplishment to be
accepted, and I'm incredibly excited.
