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SIFE conducts "Risky Business"
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: News
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A "Risky Business" venture offered through Southwest Baptist's Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team has paid off for a class of eighth grade students at Pleasant Hope Middle School.
According to junior Levi Bridge, SIFE team co-leader, "Risky Business" is an activity that teaches students how to run a business. Bridge said the week-long April activity was a great success.
"This year, Becky Hutchinson's class made products such as pirate bracelets, which were cut bandanas with yellow beads on them for their school colors; flower pens made with Hershey Kisses on top; pirate pens and locker fresheners," Bridge said. "All groups made a profit this year, showing that the students understood how to meet a need and develop a product that would fit that need."
"The students were amazing," said sophomore Rachel Greene, SIFE team co-leader. "They all worked well together and really got into the project after a couple days. It was neat to see the students' minds at work and to apply the principles we taught them."
"One of the students even said that he would like to open up his own business and be an entrepreneur because of this project," said Bridge. "That is SIFE's mission, to open up to the community and promote free enterprise and that was accomplished through this project."
Over the current academic year, SBU SIFE members organized 20 SIFE-sponsored projects in the Bolivar area and surrounding communities.
SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that teach market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics.
SIFE is a global non-profit organization that challenges students to use classroom knowledge in the real world.
SBU's SIFE team is one of over 1,800 SIFE chapters on university campuses in 48 countries.
According to junior Levi Bridge, SIFE team co-leader, "Risky Business" is an activity that teaches students how to run a business. Bridge said the week-long April activity was a great success.
"This year, Becky Hutchinson's class made products such as pirate bracelets, which were cut bandanas with yellow beads on them for their school colors; flower pens made with Hershey Kisses on top; pirate pens and locker fresheners," Bridge said. "All groups made a profit this year, showing that the students understood how to meet a need and develop a product that would fit that need."
"The students were amazing," said sophomore Rachel Greene, SIFE team co-leader. "They all worked well together and really got into the project after a couple days. It was neat to see the students' minds at work and to apply the principles we taught them."
"One of the students even said that he would like to open up his own business and be an entrepreneur because of this project," said Bridge. "That is SIFE's mission, to open up to the community and promote free enterprise and that was accomplished through this project."
Over the current academic year, SBU SIFE members organized 20 SIFE-sponsored projects in the Bolivar area and surrounding communities.
SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that teach market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics.
SIFE is a global non-profit organization that challenges students to use classroom knowledge in the real world.
SBU's SIFE team is one of over 1,800 SIFE chapters on university campuses in 48 countries.
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