STATE COMPETITION TEACHES YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS.Byline: Daily News Students from Canyon High School's Project ECHO program recently returned from a statewide competition known as Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE SIFE Students in Free Enterprise SIFE Second ISLSCP Field Experiment ) at California State University, Chico References 1. ^ "California State University, Chico", Yahoo! Education, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-28. . Project ECHO (Entrepreneurial Concepts Hands-On) is an elective course Noun 1. elective course - a course that the student can select from among alternatives elective course, course of instruction, course of study, class - education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is offered at both Bowman and Canyon high schools that teaches the fundamentals of entrepreneurship through a comprehensive curriculum and student-run business. Both CHS (Cylinder Head Sector) An earlier method of addressing a hard disk by referencing all three physical elements of the drive. It was superseded by logical block addressing (see LBA). classes, N-Focus Images and C-House Clothing, competed in a number of events against both real and virtual student-run businesses, encompassing an oral presentation tournament, a trade fair and eight projects. N-Focus Images was awarded with a second place award for Best Entrepreneurship Project. The students on the N-Focus Images team included Sharif Elsayed, chief executive officer; Veronica Bowman, president and chief operations officer; Eric Shalem, vice president of human relations; Stephanie Ghanem, director of marketing; and Robert Waller, technical director. ``Going to SIFE benefited N-Focus, and our SIFE team, in not only the experience we had there, but also the construction of our presentation,'' Bowman said. ``The many steps and people we encountered during the composition of our speeches and presentations taught us just as much as going to the competition.'' The students from C-House Clothing who participated in the competition were Carson Bowley, chief executive officer; Malissa Staats, president and chief operations officer; Nicolas Salgado, marketing director; Landen Llamas, director of community development; and James Wolfe, technical director. ``The SIFE trip was an amazing educational experience. It not only provided us with new goals to set but also (taught us) how other companies worked,'' Bowley said. Also in attendance at the competition were Pete Getz, Canyon High ECHO teacher; Jennifer Storli-Getz, LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) teacher; Alan Lewis, Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Project ECHO program coordinator and ROP (1) (Raster Operation) An instruction that manipulates the bits of a bitmapped image in some manner. (2) (RISC Operation) An instruction in a RISC processor. instructor; and Elizabeth Astrin, executive director of Project ECHO. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Canyon High School students offer their thanks for the support their entrepreneur class has received. |
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