About us!
Orca~Sunn is a business that was created by four high school students enrolled in Kempsville High School's Entrepreneurship and Business Academy.
Our Incubator Edu. class is where we began to build our business.
We were given a summer assignment where we had to create a list of problems we encountered over the summer. For example, plants not being watered enough or not waking up on time. No problem was a bad idea. We brought our lists with us to class on the first day. Throughout the first month of our class, we participated in many team-building activities that allowed us to get to know our peers. After a month of collaboration and sharing our ideas, we were put into business groups. Many groups (like ours) included people who had similar problems on their lists. We all shared our problems, ultimately discovering we each had a common problem - sunscreen not working/becoming ineffective and also not being environmentally safe. We all agreed that these were problems we wanted to dedicate our time to solving. This was the moment Orca~Sunn was born. Throughout the journey of our business, we had help from many EBA teachers. However, we also had an enormous amount of help from our mentor... Jason Barnes!
We performed endless amounts of research, trying to determine which ingredients would be the best fits for our formula. We ultimately decided on these six ingredients.
(which we plan on tweaking soon, but details on that will be released later 😉) Once we perfected our formula, we pitched it to a Board of Advisors, in hopes of being one of the five teams picked to pitch on stage at the EBA's 2022 Pitch Night. Our hopes came true, and in May 2022, we pitched our business idea to an all-star panel of judges!
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