SIFE Team Places in Regionals
On Monday, April 4th, Georgia Southern’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team competed in the SIFE regional competition and took second runner-up in their league. Students in Free Enterprise is an international organization with the mission to “bring together the top leaders of today and tomorrow to create a better, more sustainable world through the positive power of business.”
At 8:00 Monday morning, some 70 teams registered for the Southeast Regional SIFE competition and were divided into Leagues made up of eight to 10 teams. At 8:30 the first team begun their 25 minute presentation.The event took place in just one day and during the presentations students were able to partake in a career fair sponsored by several Fortune-500 companies. At a catered lunch, participants were joined at their tables by company executives or recruiters and were given valuable one-on-one time.
“It was really great! I learned so much about Coca-Cola and their extensive mentor program,” said Matt Chambers
After one team dropped from the competition, Georgia Southern’s team was bumped up by 40 minutes without being warned. But at 9:40 Georgia Southern SIFE successfully delivered their presentation.
Contained in the presentations were updates and conclusions of the individual SIFE teams’ projects. Some universities, such as Belmont University, have been working on sustainable business projects for over five years. For Georgia Southern, contributions came from SIFE’s GED learning project and from SIFE students in Dr. Luke Pittaway’s Applied Small Business Management who have taken on semester long projects devoted to Campbell’s Soup Let’s Can Hunger initiative and fund-raising for a non-profit, free health clinic, Hearts and Hands, located in Statesboro.
In just three months $3,500 have been raised in honor of Hearts and Hands Clinic and nearly 2,000 pounds of non-perishable goods to help feed the hungry. This year the Campbell’s Soup and SIFE effort to “can hunger” has raised more than 900,000 lbs of food worldwide.
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