May 16, 2008
Belmont SIFE Team Receives Recognition at National Competition
The Belmont University SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) team returned to Nashville as winners after participating in the SIFE USA National Exposition held in Chicago, Ill. The event drew more than 140 competing teams with more than 3,000 students presenting their work to more than 650 business executives serving as judges.
The Belmont team was third runner-up at the semi-final level and first runner-up in the market economics area in this year’s competition. Belmont SIFE advanced to the SIFE USA National Exposition by winning at the regional level in early spring. Belmont won the grand prize of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) anti-piracy public service announcement (PSA) competition at the 2007 SIFE National Expo and made it to the overall top 20 both years.
There are 33 Belmont students involved in SIFE for 2007-08. SIFE is an international, non-profit organization active on over 1,500 college and university campuses in 47 countries. SIFE students form teams that serve their communities by developing projects that take what they are learning in classrooms about business and use it to solve real world problems for real people. The SIFE program concentrates on five areas: entrepreneurship, market economics, success skills, financial literacy and business ethics. Each year, the teams present their projects at competition where they are judged on creativity, innovation and effectiveness.
Dr. John Gonas, assistant professor of Finance and the Sam Walton Fellow responsible for coordinating the projects and preparing the students for the competition, said, “We are very grateful to have developed and maintained such deep-rooted community partnerships. The corporate sponsors of SIFE have continuously awarded us – embracing and validating the meaningful and sustainable changes we strive to make in teaching entrepreneurship, financial literacy and life skills within the greater Nashville community.”
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