For more information, contact:
Michael Sullivan
(912) 681-0336
mikesull@GeorgiaSouthern.edu
Jan. 25, 2005
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The Georgia Southern University team of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) has received a $5,000 grant from the Marcus Foundation to support an outreach project to teach business and economics to high school students.
“These ‘I Choose’ grants are intended to encourage SIFE chapters to develop projects that will directly impact high school age students who are impaired by low income or at-risk circumstances,” said John King, business professor and faculty advisor to the Georgia Southern SIFE team.
The SIFE team’s proposal includes classroom instruction, hands-on activity, mentorship opportunities and a follow-up program.
The SIFE students will work with a small handful of high school juniors and seniors to help them understand how the free enterprise system works; the benefits and opportunities offered through free enterprise; and the tools needed to take advantage of those opportunities, with an emphasis on higher education, skills development and entrepreneurship.
“Our project will include job shadowing with local entrepreneurs, learning to write a business plan, business etiquette and other activities,” said King. “We’ll have a business plan competition and the winning plan will receive seed money to be implemented by the students as a group.”
For additional information, contact King at (912) 681-0388.
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