By LINDA HALLStaff WriterWOOSTER DISTRICT -- Entrepreneurs in training learned the ropes from a steady stream of mentors during the district's first-ever Youth Entrepreneurship Summer Academy -- complete with a banner hanging proudly on the front wall of Wooster High School.Local businesses could soon see competition from the new kids on the block on Oldman Road.Academy participants put the final touches on their own business plans on Thursday at the high school."We're doing Web design," said academy participant Robbie Chipka.Their team already has two customers, announced his project partner, Pranav Arora, clients for whom they are going to craft Web pages.The summer academy triggered "the idea of starting a business and carrying it on," Arora said.Saxophone players Ayana Wright and Nico H. Lara, along with another team member, Debbie Knapp, who has been singing for 12 years, put together an online company called Music Tips and Tricks.It will incorporate he...
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