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The Fashion Bot Fiasco

From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013

The Fashion Bot Fiasco
22 min3rd4th5th6thSocial Studies
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Summary

In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, an over-engineered fashion robot flops until the club learns to develop a product around what customers really want, not just what's flashy — keeping the business focused on its market. A ~22-minute animated story that makes a financial-literacy idea easy to drop into a social studies or economics lesson — with investor Warren Buffett as the kids' mentor.

Viewer safety

Ages 7+

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Teaching resources

Discussion questions

Discussion

Use these after watching to talk through the money-and-business idea in the episode.

  1. Why did the fancy fashion bot not work out at first?
  2. How did the club figure out what customers actually wanted?
  3. Why should a new product match what people really need?

Quick work-a-long

Money words: product, customer, market, develop, focus.

Try it: Invent a product for kids your age. Write who it's for and one thing you'd ask customers to make sure they'd want it.