What can we learn from a ten year old?

Like the ant who moved the rubber tree plant, here's a story about a kid who had high hopes. Ryan Cenk, a ten year old Cub Scout from Richland, PA, decided he was going to set the record for selling the most popcorn during the Scouts' annual fund raiser. He did it with a vengance! The national record was $20,000 and the Pittsburgh area record was $5,000. Ryan sold $25,006 worth, or ten tons of popcorn, enough to fill one and a half U-Haul trucks. His biggest sale was to ATM Corporation of America, 450 cases or $13,500. The company bought the popcorn tins for employee Christmas gifts.

The manufacturer, Trail's End, is rewarding Ryan with a trip to Orlando where he will visit Disney World and speak to the company's national sales meeting.

Richland Cub Scout pops into fund-raising record book - PittsburghLIVE.com

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