Student Store Renovation

Amy Miller and Alexis Hoke

December 4, 2024

Musselman High School’s student store has recently completed a new renovation to the now-26-year-old store. The renovation started a year ago with the arrival of the new marketing teacher, Ms. Amy Nida, in the 2023-2024 school year.

Although Nida was in charge of the class and what went on with the renovation, she let the students be hands on and have an opinion in some ideas.

“I do think they take more pride in it because of the renovation and some of them were here last year when we started [it] and took part in the actual renovation.” Ms. Nida said.

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Nida said the administration allowed her the flexibility to bring her vision to life.

“My favorite part was just having the freedom to kind of put to light what we wanted to do and then also it was fun having the students participate in like painting the ceiling and they were really into that. I was really surprised.” said Nida. “I was not sure if we were going to finish the project or not, but we did. Just seeing all off their excitement every time we would do something new or got something new. It was a lot of fun.”

Nida did keep around some of the original items, but she added new to have more of a variety including: ChapStick, lotions, earrings, tutus, socks, sunglasses, and the student favorite, slushies.

They purchased a promotional advertisement screen with the funds made through the store. The big screen is used for promotions and sales for what is sold in the store and to see what is happening around school. It is a way to get the kids involved with another marketing element of running a business.

Nida said she hopes to get out into the public someday. For example, she wishes to have a cart at football games.

“Big picture, I think it would be great to have a full-blown apparel shop that we can make orders for people on demand,” Nida said. “Hopefully, we will get things online here soon so parents can buy, and we can drop it off to the student of the parent.”

About the Contributors

Amy Miller, Sports Journalist

Amy Miller is a Senior at Musselman High School. This is her first year working for The Cider Press. She is involved in the Library club, Bible club, and Rotary club. After she graduates high school, she wants to go to Shepherd University and eventually transfer to West Virginia University to major in Journalism and minor in Sports Communications. Eventually, Amy hopes to work for ESPN as a sports reporter. Besides being a high school student, she works at Kings Pizza in Inwood. In her free time, she enjoys watching West Virginia football and basketball games as well as Baltimore Ravens. She also enjoys a good meal with ribs, loaded baked potato, and a cold Dr. Pepper.

Alexis Hoke

Alexis Hoke is a senior at Musselman High School starting her first year with the Cider Press newspaper. At Musselman, Alexis has and continues to be involved with the Thespians club for two years. She started with achieving the role of makeup manager, to acting the lead role in one act in Alice in Wonderland, and finally succeeded in participating in thespian states her junior year. During her free time, Hoke enjoys playing guitar, listening to music, and baking with her parents. Once graduated, Alexis looks forward to pursuing a nursing degree to become a Surgical Nurse or gaining a bachelor's degree to become a Crime Scene Investigator.