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(San
Marcos, Texas - April 5, 2007) The Texas State University SIFE
(Students in Free Enterprise ) Team returned to San Marcos, Texas as
winners after participating in the Dallas, Texas SIFE USA Regional
Competition on April 4, 2007.
The event was one of 27 SIFE USA Regional Competitions being
held across the United
States in March and April.
In
addition to winning their regional competition for the tenth straight
year, Texas State also took home top honors by being named a top 20
finalist for five of the six Individual Topic Competitions, which
are: SIFE USA Discover Financial
Services Success Skills Competition; SIFE USA Sam’s Club
Entrepreneurship Competition; SIFE USA HSBC Financial Literacy
Competition; SIFE USA Campbell’s Sealed Air Business Ethics
Competition; and SIFE USA GE Consumer Products Program Sustainability
Competition. The Texas State
SIFE team was the top money winner at the Dallas Regional Competition.
SIFE
is an international non-profit organization active on more than 1,400
university campuses in 48 countries.
SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by
organizing outreach projects that focus on: market economics, entrepreneurship;
personal financial success skills, and business ethics. During this
academic year, the Texas State SIFE team organized 48 projects based on
these criteria.
A
senior presentation team member, Phillip Moreno, had this to say,
“We are pleased to continue our tradition of excellence in both
the content portion of our program and the overall audio-visual
presentation representing our program of work for the year.”
Texas State
will represent the Dallas regional at
the national competition to be held in May, also to be held in Dallas, Texas. The competition has historically been
held in Kansas City,
Mo. because of its centralized
location, but now will move around to different cities in the central
portion of the country.
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