Kieran O’Connell, freshman, started her bracelet business when her parents told her she had to pay for half of her admission fee for Camp Foley, a $2000 summer camp.

“One-thousand dollars is pretty expensive, especially if it’s only half, but we always say it’s totally worth it,” O’Connell said.

Camp Foley is a co-ed camp in Minnesota which O’Connell has been attending for three years. But this year, unlike previous years, her parents are making her pay for half of it. Because she does not have a job, O’Connell decided to make and sell intricately designed string bracelets for $2. (To place an order for a bracelet, O’Connell suggests finding her in the halls or in Ms. Taubman’s homeroom.)

“I learned how to make [the bracelets] at summer camp,” O’Connell said. “It’s funny that I’m using them to make money to go back.”

O’Connell said she began selling them to her friends but then word spread and people started asking about them until she had a huge list.

“Soon the whole field hockey program wanted one,” O’Connell, a JV field hockey player, said.

Although she feels that it has been a successful business so far, she has had a few obstacles that make her job a bit harder.

“Time management is a big thing because there is this huge list,” O’Connell said. “I can make one in three hours but sitting down and working for that long is something I don’t want to do and don’t have time to do. It’s also hard getting new string because I have to go out and find more in order to keep making them but pay with it from the money I get from making the bracelets.”

So far O’Connell’s efforts have raised around $60. She said she is planning on asking more people and working other jobs in order to reach her goal of $1000.

“Once I get there I think I’ll be really proud of myself,” O’Connell said. “It’s more rewarding because I’m giving up my time and effort to make money.”