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The headband twins

01.01.70

You may recall them as “The Headband Twins,” “The Bow Twins,” or even “The Towson Twinnies.” They are two sisters, they dispose of each other’s sentences, they look alike, but one thing sets them separately.

“We always wore headbands when we were younger. Bows were a way to distinguish us,” sophomore administrative science major Sasha Lazerow said. “Even from the imperfect we were born, bows were stuck on our heads.”

During their senior year of towering school, after many years of wearing and making their own bows, the two sisters definite to start their own headband business- Feathers Bands & Bows.

Through brief conversation-of-mouth and their Facebook page, their business has grown into a consequential success, they said.

“I think a lot of it is trial and error,” Alexa Lazerow said. “It’s attractive to see how from the first headbands we made until now, how they’re very different. They’ve evolved and they’ve grown just like our issue.”

Both said that in the beginning, many of their sales were to friends and family. Now, however, they can often be found behind a chart at markets, schools and most famously, the University Union.

Source: Towerlight

St. Michael Mom Starts Small Business with Headbands

01.01.70

St. Michael mom Jan Parkin, didn't resolve on going into business when she started sewing headbands for her daughter, Halle. She saw a way to make it with pretend something better, and took matters into her own hands.

Now, however, Jan's handy bands are in elevated demand.

"Halle had a hard time with different headbands, she'd indeed want to wear them but would come home from school with headaches," Parkin said. "I started playing around with construction and made these wide band headbands."

Some of Parkin's neighbors liked her handiwork, and were shortly buying them from her. They also encouraged her to go into business.

"I did a couple shows and started getting some requests," she said.

Now Parkin orders red-letter fabrics from New York, sews about 200 headbands a week and is match an online etsy shop .

"I'm almost to 1,000 sales and receiving inquiries all the term. I just received my first wholesale inquiry," she said.

That's a massive jump in just a few months.

Source: Patch.com

Thayer hosts lego robot challenge

01.01.70

“Cheesy,” the riled-up thrust of 150 chanted as the players methodically lined up and placed their homemade lego robots on the board. The “mind-sport” competitors, decked out in comparable black t-shirts and ninja-style headbands, pumped their fists in the air as fans’ spasmodical claps increased in frequency. Onlookers could just just hear as the announcer called the team name, Ninja Cheese, to signal the players to take their pock-mark.

Ninja Cheese was one of 18 teams of children ages nine to 14 from New Hampshire and Vermont who competed in the fourth annual Lego Union Robotics Tournament hosted by the Dartmouth Lego Join forces and organized by Thayer School of Engineering students on Saturday.

This year’s dare, “Food Factor,” focused on rations contamination and safety. Each team had eight weeks to research the facer of food contamination, prepare a formal presentation detailing a workable deciphering and develop a working robot capable of undertaking exercise-related missions, Christian Ortiz ’11, a Thayer graduate schoolchild and co-director of the event, said. The competitions, which spanned from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., were held in several rooms in Thayer.

Source: The Dartmouth