Since last school year, The Wolf Prints Print Shop, has been available for Wentzville School District students and staff to order custom designed shirts.
Six classes, graphic design I and II, marketing II and III, accounting and creative design lab work together to manage finance, create designs, burn them onto shirts, and disperse them to the customers according to Marketing Teacher and DECA Advisor Rachel Ehlers.
The process of creating custom shirts starts after teachers fill out an order form. Once the form is received, project manager: junior Carson McClain and other marketing III students work together to contact the client and to gather details, according to Ehlers.
“You know, meeting these other people and being able to collaborate with them is definitely very interesting because we all have different ideas and we all have different parts that we play,” McClain said.
After contacting the client, the production crew organizes their delegated tasks through Trello, a list-making software software according to Ehlers.
“We have a lot of orders and, sometimes, we have a lot of uh-ohs, but we’re really just trying to get the hang of it, make sure we’re doing the best for our students. It’s very much communication-based,” Ehlers said.
Graphic design I and II students design the graphics then work with marketing students to burn screens, applying the design and dry the screens according to art teacher Brandy Coats.
“I like the sketching-out phase, trying to make as many designs as possible and then trying to combine what I like about them, making my finished design from that,” senior Leah Uetrecht said.
Accounting students will buy the base shirts and, at the end of the process, check over the shirts for errors or imperfections, according to senior Carter Simmons.
“I think it’s really cool we get to collaborate across many different departments, because I feel like I’m getting a real world experience,” Simmons said.
The price range is $5 to $9 per shirt depending on how many colors are used and if both sides are printed on according to accounting teacher Carrie Seiler.
