Throughout the 2007-2008 academic school year, the NNU SIFE team has participated in many projects to educate our area about business topics. Below is a list of our projects as well as a short description of what the project entailed.
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Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE)
2007-2008
Project Description: SAGE, a high school entrepreneurship program, has joined up at the national level with Youth Venture, an organization that empowers youth by providing them the resources to develop and acou out a business plan. Because of this partnership, SAGE has opened the door for these students to receive $1,000 grants to actually start their businesses. NNU SIFE comes in as being the mentors to these high school students as well as hosting the State competion for SAGE.
Project Leader: LeRisa Petersen
Members Involved: TBA
# Impacted: TBA
Timeline: October: Have teams and mentors matched, February: State Competition
Status: In Progress
Idaho & Beyond
2007-2007
Project Description: NNU SIFE teaches local 4th grade students about the importance of the agriculture industry though an interactive presentation on how agriculture affects our world, the United States, Idaho, and also right at home int he Treasure Valley through Watching Idaho. Not only do these students learn about agricultural products they eat everyday, but yhey also learn about what it meanse to export and import. They are then invited to visit our campus for hands-on activities at World Trade Day to learn more about Idaho's agricultural products, applications of exporting and importing, and how to exchange these products between countries that may have different currencies.
Project Leader: Ashley Puga
Members Involved: TBA
# Impacted: TBA
Timeline: Spring Project
Status: Planning
Ethics Film:
2006-2007
Project Description: NNU SIFE partnered with the NNU Mass Communications Department to produce a 35 mm film on the topic of business ethics. We realize that the movies used in college ethics courses are both cheezy and uneffective. We set out to create this film with educational supplements that will challenge students and generate quality conversations in a classroom setting. We intend to partner our film with an ethics textbook in order to be distributed around the country and possible around the world. As the script-writing and filming are happening this year, the project will be completed next year.
Project Leader: Jacklyn Travis
BAB Member: Bill Russell
Members Involved: 1
# Impacted: N/A
Timeline: Once the script is completed, film equiptment takes 1 week to arrive, filming will begin and completed in the fall. During which, contacts will be made in the textbook partnering effort.
Status: Filming Complete
Money Madness
2007-2008
Project Description: Money Madness is an interactive financial literacy game that teaches students how to budget and invest for the future. SIFE students act out the parts of such characters as boss, parent, best friend, financial advisor and so on as students play a recent graduate and try to make the best decisions in order to excel at life. All in all, the students have a lot of fun and come away with the game with a new understanding for finances.
Project Leader: Kate Cochran
Members Involved: TBA
# Impacted: TBA
Timeline: October 18th
Status: In progress