SCU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Partners With Junior Achievement.Business & News Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002 Students learn the spirit of entrepreneurship at Junior Achievement's first Student Company Competition in Silicon Valley on Dec. 4 Five local high school teams will present their Junior Achievement student companies' products, business plans and entrepreneurial challenges this week to a panel of Silicon Valley's most dynamic business leaders. This event is hosted by Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University was founded in 1923 and accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business twenty years later. and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a natural match of interests as well as mission. The student teams come from local high schools using Junior Achievement Economics, a semester-long curriculum for high school seniors that incorporates the development and operation of real businesses, with real profits and stock options. The Dec. 4 event at SCU SCU Santa Clara University SCU Southern Cross University (New South Wales, Australia) SCU Southern California University of Health Sciences (Whittier, California) SCU Serious Crimes Unit SCU Special Care Unit is the first such competition of Junior Achievement of Silicon of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, with awards and scholarships to the top teams. The goal is to have several student company teams compete each spring and fall. "We are pleased to bring these outstanding students together with some of Silicon Valley's most dynamic business leaders," said Elaine Curran, president of JA of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay, Inc. "The interaction between students and judges will be very insightful to both. We look forward to starting a great tradition that will help Silicon Valley develop its next generation of workforce and business leaders." "Junior Achievement is an integral part of the free enterprise system," said Patrick Guerra, executive director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. "There is no mystery why America has such a creative, resourceful and resilient economy: It begins with lessons learned early on in our educational process." "As a portal to Silicon Valley, those of us at the Center and at the Leavey School of Business are proud to join with JA to make a positive impact on young people," he said. The JA student companies will be assessed by a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
As a 12 year old student, he became fascinated with a programmable calculator. of Propel; Boris Limpkin limpkin or courlan (k  r`lən), common terms for a long-legged, nonmigratory marsh bird, considered the connecting evolutionary link between the crane and the rail. , Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. Professor Emeritus; Dan Perez of Selection; John Sobrato, Sr. of Sobrato Development Company; and Cliff Swenson of Carl N. Swenson Company. Barry Posner Barry Innis Posner (born 1937) is a Canadian physician and research scientist known for his diabetes research, specifically his peptide hormone research. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba in 1961. , dean of the SCU Leavey School of Business, will kick off the Student Company Competition, and SCU marketing professor Fred Hoar, retired CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Miller Shandwick, will be the master of ceremonies. The Silicon Valley Business Journal is a co-sponsor. In addition to the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, SCU student organizations -- Women in Business and Accelerated Cooperative Education
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view (ACE), and the University's Retail Management Institute -- volunteer with Junior Achievement to teach in local elementary schools elementary school: see school. using JA classroom curricula. Several JA Business Hall of Fame Laureates are SCU alumni, including SCU president Paul Locatelli Rev. Paul Locatelli, S.J. is president and professor of accounting at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. He is a Jesuit priest and a Certified Public Accountant, earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Santa Clara, now Santa Clara University, in 1960 , S.J., and John Sobrato, Sr. Media: To obtain information about the times and locations of the company competition, call SCU Media Relations, at 408-396-4491. About Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay is the premier K-12 economic education organization, serving approximately 27,500 school children. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in Silicon Valley, JA nationwide is the largest and fastest-growing non-profit economic education organization, annually teaching 6 million elementary, middle school and high school students in over 110 countries. Junior Achievement's mission is to ensure that every child in America has a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system. Junior Achievement uses community and business role models to bring its classroom programs to life. In multiple classroom visits, these volunteers use their experience and knowledge to help students become workforce-ready by applying critical thinking and school skills to solving real-world problems. For more information and to get involved, visit www.jascc.org or call 408-988-8915. About the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business established the Center for Innovation and Enterpreneurship in 1998. The center delivers a uniquely Santa Clara stamp on the study of innovation and entrepreneurship -- blending research and thought on leadership, applied ethics Applied ethics is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply 'theoretical' ethics, such as utilitarianism, social contract theory, and deontology, to real world dilemmas. and a focus on the process of innovation. Located at the center of the most fertile proving ground for new technologies -- Silicon Valley -- the center involves both graduate and undergraduate business school students, working with faculty in research in a variety of disciplines. About The Leavey School of Business The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University began in 1926, and was one of the first business schools in the country to receive national accreditation. It undergraduate business program has been recognized as one of the best in California, and it MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration program has been ranked in the nation's top 20 part-time programs. More than 80 percent of its 1,043 MBA students are working professionals in Silicon Valley. For more information, see www.business.scu.edu. About Santa Clara University Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,054 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the third-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is on line at www.scu.edu. |
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