day zero
Students at Envision Career Academy in Lacey show off the shirts they screen-printed for the 2024 AWB Manufacturing Week bus tour. AWB visited their work-based-learning high school, part of the North Thurston School District, shortly before leaving in October for the eighthannual bus tour across Washington. This was the second year Envision printed shirts for AWB to give out at tour stops. Matthew Monnastes teaches entrepreneurship and marketing at the school and supports Envision Enterprises, student-run businesses that include a café and the shirt design and printing operation. Envision Academy opened in 2020 and serves 158 students in grades 9 through 12.
“ I think business can really be integrated into anything.”
Envision Career Academy ASB President Lyss Romera,( left) a senior, is also co-vice president of FBLA. She is part of the entrepreneurship class that operates a cafe and t-shirt printing business at the school. She wants to study business and marine biology at college.