Chadron State SIFE team qualifies for nationals again
The Students In Free Enterprise team at Chadron State College continued its impressive showing during regional competition in Denver this past week.
With teams representing colleges and universities in eight states competing, the Chadron State team was one of four selected to advance to the National Exposition in Kansas City on May 21-23.
In addition, the CSC team won the Financial Literacy and the Success Skills special topics competitions at the regional expo and is qualified for those events at nationals, according to Dr. Rick Koza, CSC associate professor of business and the SIFE sponsor.
This is the seventh consecutive year that the Chadron State team has qualified for the National Expo. During the past year, Koza said the CSC team completed 20 projects involving many facits of the community.
Major projects included working with students at the Pine Ridge Job Corps Center on job seeking skills, joining with members of the CSC International Club to present a program on diversity to 120 rural school students, presenting personal finance information to freshmen at Pine Ridge High School in South Dakota, helping Chadron eighth and ninth grade students organize selling pizza to help fund a trip to Washington, D.C., and Ads for Kids, a program for first through fourth graders who draw ads that appeared in the Chadron Record.
This year’s SIFE team also hosted U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne’s Ag Entrepreneurship Workshop at CSC last fall and consulted with several area businesses.
Altogether, Koza said the team members combined for more than 2,350 hours of community service.
The CSC chapter of SIFE also has excelled at the National Expo. It has finished among the top 10 in the final national rankings three of the past four years and was one of just three groups to place in all five special competitions last year.
Members of this year’s SIFE team are Megan Boyle, North Platte; Nick Davis, Rapid City; Brandon Doke, Ainsworth; Anne Holland, Benkelman; Seth Hu1quist and Jamie Mills, Alliance; Casey Keim and James Mann, Chadron; Jesse Moore, Gering; Aleyse Schultz, Dickens; and JoAnna Tatman, Sidney.
Dr. Jamie Waldo, a member of the CSC business faculty, helped Koza sponsor the team at the regional expo.
The other teams qualifying for nationals at the regional expo were from Colorado State University-Pueblo, Midland Lutheran and Wichita State.
Category: Campus News