Richland County's future small business owners gathered Tuesday at the Mid-Ohio Conference Center for a young entrepreneurs workshop.

Bill Sharp, Director of the Richland Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation, says the high school students were given instruction on how to make their business ideas grow and prosper.

The twenty-two sophomores are members of the Young Leaders Institute, and represent each public high school in Richland County along with Mansfield Christian and Mansfield St. Peter's.

One of the presenters was Heather Tsvaris, an entrepreneurship teacher at North-Central State College's Urban Center in Mansfield.