GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Community College Business Club will head to one of the economic centers of the world next month to see firsthand how established companies operate as they work toward the credentials to start their own.
Thom Simmons, co-chairman of the business department, said the club members will take their annual trip to New York City from April 13 to 16, where they will visit various businesses, including Squeaky Wheel Media, a social media marketing company that Simmons said has been recognized as the number one most socially responsible business in the city for work connecting cancer patients and cancer survivors through their social media expertise, for free.
They’ll also visit a chocolate factory, the NBC News studios, see “Something Rotten” on Broadway, and attend the Green Business Expo and a New York Yankees baseball game over the course of four days.
Simmons is from New York, and said he still has a lot of contacts there.
“We visit different businesses each trip,” Simmons said. “We’ve been to Brooklyn Brewery, music recording studios, fashion design firms and an attorney who specializes in crowdsourcing.”
Simmons said students who have gone on past trips have been known to sometimes be offered internships on the spot.
“Lots come back with a sense of how to get their own business up and running,” he said.