Bulgarian Student Wins Global Essay Contest; She Explains Life in a Country Tattered by Economic Volatility.Business & Education Editors COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2000 An 18-year-old Bulgarian student who wrote of life in a country tattered tat·tered adj. 1. Torn into shreds; ragged. 2. Having ragged clothes; dressed in tatters. 3. a. Shabby or dilapidated. b. Disordered or disrupted. by economic volatility has won an international essay contest. Valentina Nikolaeva Stoeva, a high school student in VelikoTurnovo, Bulgaria won an all-expense-paid one-week visit to Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. as part of the Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge (HPGBC HPGBC Hewlett Packard Global Business Challenge ). The essay contest is jointly sponsored by Junior Achievement International, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. that teaches young people around the world about free enterprise and Hewlett-Packard Company, the computing and communications giant. The essay explained the difficulty she faced growing up in a country frayed fray 1 n. 1. A scuffle; a brawl. See Synonyms at brawl. 2. A heated dispute or contest. tr.v. frayed, fray·ing, frays Archaic 1. To alarm; frighten. 2. by economic instability and how Junior Achievement helped her overcome the adversity in such a country. "It is extremely difficult to concentrate on what you really like, go for your dreams and follow when there is a deep economic crisis with inflation going up, unemployment rising dramatically and people starving starve v. starved, starv·ing, starves v.intr. 1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. 2. Informal To be hungry. 3. To suffer from deprivation. or being unable to pay their bills," she writes. Stoeva became involved in Junior Achievement as a high school student where she and her classmates Classmates can refer to either:
"All the challenges and difficulties we faced were revelations for me in the best and richest sense of the word," she writes. "This involvement gave me the strength to believe in my abilities and potential for growth, to make plans for my future and know that I can achieve them." She said Junior Achievement has helped her know she can make a difference and with her work can be useful to her country. "Someone once wisely pointed out 'Business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.' This is definitely true in my case," she said. Stoeva will deliver her winning essay in a speech at the HPGBC Final Awards Ceremony at Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, California in August. Junior Achievement is the world's oldest, largest and fastest-growing nonprofit economic education organization. Junior Achievement International (www.jaintl.org) serves 106 countries. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing and communications. For more information about Hewlett-Packard Company visit www.hp.com. This is the fifth consecutive year HP has sponsored the competition. |
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