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LCCC Business Students Win at Regional Competition
With four trophies and $1,000 to show for their efforts, these LCCC students have reason to cheer. At the regional competition in Tampa in early April, the newly chartered Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team at Lake City Community College ended their first year with plenty of booty:
- * Rookie Team of the Year
* First runner-up in the Community College division, beating out megalith Miami-Dade, the largest community college in the world
* Sam M. Walton Fellowship Award for their advisor, Dr. Sheri Carder
* Success 2000 trophy for their work with the undereducated and the underprivileged in Columbia and Union counties.
With the goal of teaching the area communities about the free enterprise system, 22 LCCC students completed 1,163 volunteer hours since January. Their 33 completed projects encompassed teaching grade school, middle school, high school, and college students, older Americans, and unemployed citizens about American business -- labor issues, supply economics, employability skills and work ethics, income taxes, internet and computer resources, marketing and entrepreneurship. They used some very innovative methods to get their message across, including using the popular Beanie Babies to explain free market concepts and having Melrose second-graders manufacture Easter baskets to explain division of labor and productivity.
The winning SIFE team was recently presented to the LCCC Board of Trustees.
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SIFE Members and students from Dixie County High School learn about the Marketing Mix
SIFE Team Members Visit the LCCC / Lake City Chamber of Commerce Job Fair
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SIFE team members Dottie Haltam and Brian McIntire have been teaching a group of young people ages 12 - 15 the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. They met weekly (sometimes more) over a two month period. These students have learned how to start up and operate a business, write a business plan, market their products, keep financial records, and other business skills. They ran three small businesses:
- A service business: "Kicken Kleaners"
- A manufacturing business: "Sweet Success" (brownies and cookies)
- A merchandising business: "Tiger Spirit Unlimited"
Their profits totaled $102.00 which they donated to a band scholarship fund which was set up in memory of a high school senior who died earlier this year.
SIFE team members Dottie Haltam and Brian McIntire taught a group of sophomores and juniors in the Agriculture classes at Union High School about entrepreneurship , preparing them for the operation of a horticulture business, "Tiger Blooms". Students learned what characteristics are needed to be a successful entrepreneur, the importance of and how to write a business plan, advantages and disadvantages of entrepreneurship, and how to go through the process of applying for positions in the business. The SIFE team set up job interviews in which they went through the real-life process of filling out an application, writing a resume, obtaining references, and interviewing for the position of their choice. The team arranged for professionals in the community to do interviews. Students were rated and chosen for the positions.
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