Early Entrepreneurship Journey

In my second year of high school, our class joined an extracurricular entrepreneurship program through Junior Achievement of Albania. What started as a project to pass the time quickly became something much bigger.

Together with four classmates, we created a company that transformed discarded military wooden chests into artistic paintings. The idea was simple but meaningful: take something forgotten and turn it into something beautiful.

We made it to the national competition and won first prize as the Students' Company of the Year. That victory earned us a ticket to represent Albania at the international fair in France, an experience that taught me more about business, resilience, and people than I could have imagined.