Projects
Throughout the year SIFE members complete a number of different
projects that aim to make a difference in our community. There have been many
different types of SIFE projects through out the years and every year there is
always discussion about new projects.
Bartending 101
This program gives it’s participants an insight into what it would take
to open up their own bar or be a bartender. We partner with a local bar
and then one evening we have the owner of the bar talk about the
different regulations and startup costs for owning your own
business/bar. This program allows young entrepreneur to here advice
from and ask questions to a successful business owner and gain hands on
experiences.
Fair Trade Market
SIFE partnered up with numerous fair trade groups to help sell their
products. The international fair trade week helps get products produced
from small time farmers in foreign countries a fair price for their
products. SIFE helped to organize the event and sell the products
Campbell's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
Inspired by Campbell's Stamp Out Hunger Challenge given to SIFE schools, K-State SIFE is working with local businesses to setup booths raising money as well as offering coupon books for donations. Being within twenty minutes of Fort Riley, we have decided to have our drive donations given directly to military families in need. Also, we will be conducting a class to these wives and other interested family members about financial independency. Doing this project will fulfill multiple criteria for SIFE as well as totally encapsulate the requirements for the Campbell's Stamp Out Hunger Challenge. This project will take place late January and early February of 2008.
High School Symposium
Each year SIFE hosts a symposium for high school students throughout
the state of Kansas. We invite them to come and hear a keynote speaker
talk about today’s relevant business topics and then they participate
in “breakout” sessions. In these sessions we teach the basics of
marketing, finance, and international business.
International Trade
This year we partnered with the SIFE teams from the Salina campus and
SMSU in Minnesota. We went into a local elementary school and taught
the kids about international trade. We set up the different schools as
different countries and each school made bracelets to sell. We then
sent the bracelets to different schools for the kids to “buy”. Through
the program, students learned about exchange rates, marketing, and
supply and demand. This project gave the students the opportunity to
do basic trading and interact with kids throughout the state and the
country.
Edison Project
This project is a collaborative effort with Graceland University to simply change out light bulbs. We are in the initial phases of this project as we have upcoming meetings with our university's sustainability department as well as with the CEO of the local chamber of commerce to promote energy friendly, Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs, or CFL's, to be used instead of incandescent bulbs.
Faculty Appreciation
Every month we think of a creative way to show appreciation for the
K-State faculty. We try to be very creative, and tie in different
themes that correlate with the month. An example of this would be
making turkey shaped cookies in November.
Financial Case Competition
Every year we compete in at least one financial case competition. In
these competitions we are presented with a fictional scenario of a
family or companies finances. We are then given 36 hours to create a
short-term, mid-term, and long-term financial plan. At the end of the
36 hours we present our plan to a panel of judges and they decide on a
winning team.
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