MHS’ school store has finally opened at the beginning of December. They will be open from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. everyday except for Thursday so students can go purchase items during their lunches.
The store is run by Lauren Rhoades and her ISD special education class and is located in F-wing, right by the weight room.
What’s Available
There are many items available at the school store. Students can purchase food and beverages, as well as school supplies and spirit wear.
Many students flock to the store during lunch periods to get some of the snacks and drinks that aren’t sold in the regular lines. Faygo, Voss water, and Arizona green tea are all exclusive to the school store, as well as the famous Smoothies.
Notebooks, LockerLookz, pencils, pens, batteries, anything a student could possibly need can be purchased as well.
“I think the school store sells a lot of things that kids would need. And the smoothies are really good,” freshman Brooke Shugarman said.
There is plenty of spirit wear, too. The school store has hoodies, t-shirts, quarter-zips, yoga pants, joggers, socks, tattoos, baseball tees, and hats with the Trojan logo. Old football jerseys are also available for purchase.
How It Began
Rhoades’ class raised enough money to purchase all of the items for the school store.
“All of the money that we made from the coffee sales has gone into it,” Rhoades said.
Many other classes and businesses have also contributed to the effort to make this a good place for Rhoades’ class to develop work-based skills. The home repair class will be helping put together the cabinets for the new store. The welding class made key chains, as well as holiday moose, and will get profits from the sales of those. Pat Catans was also very generous with donating some shelves.
Jeffrey Brown’s third hour marketing classroom is merging with the school store after winter break.
“He’s going to have his classroom come down here and work with our students,” Rhoades said.
Brown’s students are very excited to be able to do this with Rhoades.
“It feels good to be able to help them out,” said senior Aleishka Santos-Cruz. “It’s something new in the school, and I think it will be fun.”
Rhoades’ class started with the room filled with boxes, and her entire class cleaned up the room, purchased the items for the store and worked the coffee sales to fundraise the money to make this all happen.
The students were excited about making this all happen by themselves and were extremely excited to be able to run it.
“Awesome. It feels fine,” said Trenton Carr, one of Rhoades students. “(We’re) making money, and having fun. Getting out of the classroom a lot besides having to do work.”