Business & Innovation

Most high school business classes end with a grade. At Maranatha, they end with a paycheck.

Through Mustang Enterprises, students don't just learn about business—they run one, applying and interviewing for the chance to lead an actual student-run company from strategy to sale.

Mustang Enterprises

Mustang Enterprises is a student-led, promotional products business that produces 100% real products in-house.

Students set strategy, manage a real budget, source product, and sell to real customers. Mustang Enterprises students are accountable for real outcomes, not simulated ones.

Entrepreneurship

Students develop an original business concept from the ground up, culminating in selling their actual product at Makers Market and Experience Maranatha each spring.

"One of Mrs. Molly Osberg's goals in teaching is to have her students connect what they are learning in the classroom with what they do in their everyday lives.

With everything going on in our current culture financially from massive student loan debt, rising home and car payments, young adults having to live at home, Mrs. Osberg wants to get the point across to her students that the choices they are making now will affect them in their very near future."
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Accounting I & II

Accounting students learn the financial literacy foundation behind every business decision—budgeting, bookkeeping, and financial statements.

Investing 101

Investing 101 students manage a $100,000 virtual portfolio through the Stock Market Game while learning to research, invest, and steward wisely under real market conditions.

See How We Do Business

We trade standard textbooks for real business plans, giving students the tools, mentorship, and funding to launch actual ventures before they graduate.

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