{"id":246150,"date":"2025-09-22T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246150\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:59:43","slug":"alamo-heights-high-school-entrepreneurs-plan-healthy-soda-pitch-for-san-antonio-startup-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246150\/","title":{"rendered":"Alamo Heights High School entrepreneurs plan healthy soda pitch for San Antonio Startup Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO <\/strong> \u2013 During this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/18\/what-to-know-about-san-antonio-startup-week-in-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/18\/what-to-know-about-san-antonio-startup-week-in-october\/\">San Antonio Startup Week<\/a>, teams of high school students will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a wide range of other entrepreneurs, investors and business owners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cSo, over half of our country drinks soda every single day, and they know the terrible effects it leaves,\u201d said the Fizi team from Alamo Heights Business Incubator. \u201cAll over the internet we see that even stevia has negative effects; there (are) terrible things in Coke, Diet Coke. So we wanted that one solution that just had completely clean ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Several high school programs, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/ahhs.ahisd.net\/departments\/HBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ahhs.ahisd.net\/departments\/HBI\">Heights Business Incubator<\/a> at Alamo Heights High School, work to help students create their own startup ideas while teaching them how to run a business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe would love to keep it going. We\u2019ve obviously created an awesome team that we want to work with for as long as we can,&#8221; said another member from Fizi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Fizi, an all-natural and healthier approach to soda, is the brainchild of five students who have spent the last year working on their business plan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">At a school pitching competition among 25 other teams, Fizi took second place and was able to receive a thousand dollars in investment money from the school board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">To learn more about the schedule and registration for this year\u2019s Startup Week, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/sasw.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sasw.co\/\">visit their website <\/a>here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>This is an ongoing story and will be updated. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More recent San Antonio Startup Week coverage on KSAT:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 During this year\u2019s San Antonio Startup Week, teams of high school students will have the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,64,7236,28903,7202,117813,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-246150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-downtown","11":"tag-geekdom","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-startup-week","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115247602930142913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}