More Than a Fair
Kidz Biz Fair is the culminating marketplace in a year-round youth entrepreneurship experience.
Youth CEOs develop their own business ideas, create products or services, think through costs and pricing, design their booths, market their businesses, and interact directly with customers.
Parents and mentors can encourage and guide, but the young entrepreneurs lead.
Through Family Circles, the annual marketplace, partnerships, scholarships, and continued opportunities, youth move from curiosity to real-world action while building confidence, resourcefulness, financial skills, communication, responsibility, and problem-solving.
Where Big Ideas Begin Small
Every child deserves the opportunity to discover what they’re capable of.
Kidz Biz Fair empowers youth ages 6–17 to build confidence, solve problems, launch a real business, and experience what it feels like to turn an idea into reality.
Kidz Biz Fair gives young entrepreneurs ages 6–17 the opportunity to create a business, develop a product or service, build a brand, set their prices, and sell to real customers.
This is more than a fair—and it is not simply a craft fair. It is a real-world entrepreneurship experience where children build confidence, practice responsibility, make money, and discover what is possible when a community believes in their ideas.
Saturday, April 10, 2027
9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Awards ceremony immediately following
Misty’s Dance Unlimited Community Center
923 12th Avenue South, Suite 103
Onalaska, Wisconsin
Calling All Young Entrepreneurs
Kidz Biz Fair welcomes youth ages 6–17 (or 18 if still enrolled in high school).
Whether your child already has a business idea or is simply curious, this is the place to begin.
Participants may apply individually or as a team of up to three youth entrepreneurs.
No prior business experience is required—only curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to learn.
Calling All Young Entrepreneurs
Kidz Biz Fair is open to youth ages 6–17. Participants who are 18 may also apply if they are still enrolled in high school.
Youth may participate individually or with a team of up to three young entrepreneurs. One application should be submitted for each business.
No prior business experience is required. Young entrepreneurs do not need to have everything figured out before applying. They simply need curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to bring an idea to life.
You don’t have to have it all figured out.
You just have to be ready for something more.
Why Families Love Kidz Biz Fair
Parents tell us they see their children:
✔ Gain confidence
✔ Take initiative
✔ Learn responsibility
✔ Communicate with adults
✔ Solve real problems
✔ Handle money
✔ Discover what they’re capable of
Because entrepreneurship teaches far more than business—it teaches life.
What Young Entrepreneurs Learn
💡Creativity & Innovation
Turn an idea into a product, service, or experience.
📋Business Planning
Set goals and make thoughtful decisions about the business.
📊Money Management
Understand costs, pricing, revenue, and profit.
📣Marketing and Branding
Create a business name, brand, display, and customer message.
💪Courage and Resilience
Practice problem-solving, adapt when something does not work, and finish what they start.
💬Communication
Talk with customers, explain the business, and make sales.
From Big Idea to Booth Day
Every entrepreneur starts somewhere. Here’s how we’ll help your child move from an idea to opening day.
Step 1: Imagine
Choose a product, service, or business idea that interests you.
Step 2: Apply
Complete the online application and think through your product, pricing, startup costs, marketing, and definition of success.
Step 3: Build
Create your product or service, develop your brand, and prepare your booth.
Step 4: Practice
Participate in optional Kidz Biz Family Circles, community experiences, and learning opportunities throughout the year.
Step 5: Launch
Open your business to real customers at the Kidz Biz Fair.
Step 6: Celebrate
Recognize the courage, creativity, learning, and growth of every youth entrepreneur during the awards ceremony.
Growing a Movement
What began as just 10 youth businesses has grown into a thriving entrepreneurship experience serving young people across our community.
✓ 40 youth-owned businesses launched in 2026
✓ Up to 50 youth-owned businesses expected in 2027
✓ Hundreds of community members supporting young entrepreneurs
✓ Building momentum toward a statewide youth entrepreneurship movement
Every year, more young people discover what's possible when someone believes in their ideas.
Kidz Biz Family Circles
Entrepreneurship isn’t learned in one day.
That’s why Kidz Biz Fair includes free monthly Family Circles where youth entrepreneurs and their families explore ideas, learn from local business leaders, build confidence, and prepare for the annual fair together.
Whether your child has a business idea today or is simply curious, Family Circles are the perfect place to begin.
Monthly Session Themes
July 20, 2026 — Set Sail: Discovering Your Big Idea
Youth CEOs begin exploring business ideas, identifying what they are excited to create, and learning how entrepreneurs turn ideas into action.
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August 10, 2026 — Know Your Customer: Market Research
Families and youth entrepreneurs learn how to think about who their customers are, what customers need, and how to ask good questions before building a product or service.
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September 14, 2026 — Build Your Brand: Identity & Image
Youth CEOs learn how to name their business, think about logos, colors, signs, packaging, and create a brand that reflects their values and personality.
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October 12, 2026 — Show Me the Money: Pricing & Unit Economics
Youth entrepreneurs learn about costs, pricing, profit, and how to make sure their business idea can actually make money.
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November 9, 2026 — Dream Team: Building Your Business Crew
Youth CEOs learn that even entrepreneurs need support. This session focuses on mentors, family help, teamwork, asking for support, and knowing what parts of the business they are responsible for leading.
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December 8, 2026 — Stand Out: Knowing Your Competition
Participants learn how to look at other businesses, understand what makes their idea different, and communicate why customers should choose them.
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January 12, 2027 — Money Moves: Budgeting & Financial Planning
Youth CEOs learn about budgeting, saving, spending, planning ahead, and making smart money choices as young business owners.
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February 9, 2027 — Pitch Perfect: Sales & Communication
Youth CEOs practice talking to customers, explaining their products or services, and communicating with confidence.
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March 9, 2027 — Final Countdown: Ready, Set, Launch!
Families and youth CEOs review final preparations for the Kidz Biz Fair, including booth setup, customer service, supplies, signs, pricing, and what to expect on event day.
The Journey Continue
Kidz Biz does not end when the tables come down.
Through community partnerships, continued entrepreneurship education, mentorship, scholarships, emerging seed-capital opportunities, and connections to programs such as Junior Achievement, we help young entrepreneurs continue exploring what they are capable of building.
Big Ideas
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Family Circles
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Build + Practice
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Kidz Biz Fair
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Breakthrough + Scholarships
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JA + Community Opportunities
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Keep Growing
Big Idea. Small Barrier?
FIERCE Breakthrough — Coming Soon
Through the emerging FIERCE Breakthrough Fund, eligible young entrepreneurs will have opportunities to access small amounts of seed capital while learning how entrepreneurs budget, invest, sell, evaluate results, and reinvest.
Youth CEOs will be encouraged to identify what they need, what it costs, what the investment will help them accomplish, and what they plan to do with the revenue they earn.
Founding Partner: Altra Federal Credit Union
We are proud and grateful to have Altra Federal Credit Union as a founding partner and sponsor for the 2027 Kidz Biz Fair season. Their support helps bring financial education, encouragement, and real-world learning to young entrepreneurs and their families.
It Takes a Community
Small-town ideas can grow into something powerful when a community chooses to believe in young people.
Kidz Biz Fair is a signature youth entrepreneurship program of the FIERCE Foundation and is hosted through the Acton Children’s Business Fair platform. The experience is strengthened by sponsors, volunteers, families, educators, business owners, and community partners who invest their time, resources, and encouragement.
One of the most meaningful moments each year happens when a local business leader presents an award to a young CEO. That business leader knows what it feels like to begin with little more than an idea, courage, and the hope that someone will believe in them.
Together, we are not simply hosting a fair. We are curating hope, developing resourcefulness, and helping young people see what they are capable of becoming.
Help a Young Entrepreneur Take the First Step
Sponsorships help make Kidz Biz Fair accessible to more families while supporting youth-business resources, educational experiences, booth supplies, awards, marketing, and event operations.
Sponsors receive meaningful community recognition while directly investing in the courage, confidence, and entrepreneurial potential of local youth.
Opportunities begin at $250, with expanded recognition available for community partners and presenting sponsors.
2027 Kidz Biz Fair
Date: Saturday, April 10, 2027
Marketplace: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Awards: Immediately following the marketplace
Address: 923 12th Avenue South, Suite 103, Onalaska, WI 54650
Eligibility: Ages 6–17; age 18 if still enrolled in high school
Capacity: Up to 50 youth-owned businesses
Frequently Asked Questions
Do young entrepreneurs need an existing business?
No. Youth may begin with an idea and build their business as they prepare for the fair.
Can youth work together?
Yes. A business may include up to three youth participants. Submit one application for the entire business.
What can participants sell?
Participants may offer age-appropriate products or services that they have meaningfully helped create and develop.
Can parents help?
Parents may provide encouragement and age-appropriate assistance, but the young entrepreneur should lead the business, interact with customers, and make the sales.
Is electricity available?
No. Booths should be planned without access to electricity.
What is provided?
Each business will receive approximately half of an eight-foot table and one or two chairs. Participants should bring their own table covering, display materials, products, signs, payment supplies, and change.
Kidz Biz Fair Is Made Possible by Sponsors Who Believe in Young Entrepreneurs
We are deeply grateful to the businesses and foundations helping provide free Family Circles, entrepreneurship education, youth business resources, real-world experiences, awards, and opportunities for young CEOs to bring their ideas to life.
Thank you for believing in young entrepreneurs and helping bold ideas become real possibilities.
Interested in investing in the next generation?
Every Great Business Begins with Someone Believing in an Idea
Whether you are a young entrepreneur, parent, sponsor, volunteer, educator, business owner, or community member, you have a role in helping the next generation discover what they are capable of creating.
Join us as we build more than businesses. Together, we are building courage, resourcefulness, confidence, and hope.
FIERCE Foundation Incorporated is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
EIN: 87-2596615
Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 391
La Crosse, WI 54602