Fort Frances Trio Advance to National Event

Three Fort Frances High School students will head to Ottawa in May to push their business case for a funeral home.

They're among thirty school groups across Canada that won the right to compete in a business planning competition for native youth sponsored by Business Development Bank of Canada.

Grade 12 student Stephen Mitchell says they now have to push their plan at the national event.

"We have to set up a booth,"says Mitchell, "like we have a real-live business. We have to have pamphlets to hand out and a logo in front of the booth. Basically to try to sell what you have to the people that come by. Some of them might be judges, but they don't really tell you."

It's the first time students from Fort Frances have participated.

Joining Mitchell in Ottawa will be Max Calder and Ryan Strachan.