Georgia Southern Students in Free Enterprise
SIFE is a global, non-profit organization where highly dedicated student teams on more than 1600 university campuses in 40 countries engage in projects. SIFE offers these students the opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise. The team did well at the regional competition (May 2009 in Atlanta) and were second runners-up in a league of six teams. Dr. Luke Pittaway also became a Sam Walton Fellow and formally Georgia Southern’s SIFE advisor.
There is a new executive team this year: Jevon Thomas (President); Will Buchanon (VP of HR); Travis Reeves (VP of Media Relations); Jasmine Jackson (VP of Membership); Michael Sweeney (Treasurer); and, Tierra Kirkland (VP of Project Management).
The GED program which is led by Joshua Ford, collaborates with the Physical Plants Adult Literacy Program and help workers on campus, such as, custodial staff, and kitchen workers, get the opportunity to receive their GED’s. The project will help them with the basic subjects Math, Science, English, and Social Studies.
The Funding Factory program, led by Alex Pace, is a project that collects unwanted cell phones and cartridges, and in the process, cash flow is generated from the company that chooses to recycle the products. The Eco-Team, led by Nathan Nathaniel Jackson, works and deals with things that will improve the environment and conserve energy.
Two new team leads, Terrell Flowers and Micheal Bohagen, will be working on the SIFE Book Spills project. This project is geared towards generating money for the SIFE organization. The person involved collects unwanted books, whether it is from a professor or student, and sells the books on EBAY to generate profit. To satisfy the SIFE criteria for Market Economics, team lead, Cierra Steel will be working on a Microeconomics project that will teach students the basic concepts and principles of economics.
New to SIFE this year is the PR team and the Entrepreneurship Expertise project. Team lead, Travis Reeves, will be part of the Entrepreneurship Expertise project. He and his team will join the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Statesboro to provide entrepreneurship lectures, business plan competitions, and other entrepreneur based projects for high-school students in the Statesboro community.
The team recently (September) attended a weekend training event at Kennesaw State University and learnt a great deal that they will apply to this year’s competition.
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