B-CC SIFE TEAM NAMED REGIONAL CHAMPION 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Bethune-Cookman College Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team won the Regional League Championship title at the 2004 Southern Regional SIFE Competition sponsored by Altria in Atlanta, Ga. held April 1.

By virtue of the regional championship, the B-CC team advances to compete in the 2004 SIFE USA National Exposition hosted by the Kansas City Business Community, May 23-25 in Missouri against 180 SIFE Teams from across the country.  Two teams will emerge as the Radio Shack SIFE USA National Champion, and the winning team in the four-year college division will move on to represent the United States at SIFE World Cup 2004 in Barcelona, Spain, competing against national champions from over 25 countries. 

During the regional competition, the B-CC SIFE Team presented over 20 projects they’ve developed and implemented throughout the year. SIFE Team members developed  projects to meet the specific needs of the community by teaching Market Economics, Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Personal Financial Success Skills. Some of those projects included the inaugural “Z” Craft Fair, Community Cyber Centers in Haiti, Fair Trade vs. Free Trade Debate, and Youth Entrepreneurship.

Each team was allotted 24 minutes for their presentation and was judged by a panel of 20 corporate executives from various corporations.

The B-CC SIFE team was also honored for its efforts during Business Ethics month. 

Mr. Calvin Fink serves as the new advisor for the B-CC SIFE Team, replacing the late Dr. William Ziegler, and was named its  new Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow.  The award-winning team included the following presenters:  Kendrick Barnes, Ft. Myers, Fla.; Julia Barron, Tampa, Fla.; Courtney Bennett, Atlanta, Ga..; Dimitar Bogatinov, Plodiv, Bulgaria; Rachel Davis, Sacramento, Calif.;  Michael Engram, Warren, Ohio; Vincent Givens, Knoxville, Tenn.; Deidre Jackson, Burlington, N.J., Mariaelena Jorge, Brooklyn, N.Y.;  Kendrick Julmis, Ft. Lauderdale. Fla.; Tiffany Lackey, Cincinnati, Ohio; Diondre Larmond, Miami, Fla.; Brandi Miller, Prince, Md., Brian Miller, Great Lakes, Il. and SIFE Chief Operating Officer David Pierre-Louis, Miami, Fla.   

SIFE is a non-profit organization active on more than 1600 college and university campuses in 40 countries.  SIFE works in partnership with business and higher education to proved students the opportunity to make a difference and to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise.  For more information, contact Bethune-Cookman College SIFE at 481-2800, SIFE World Headquarters at 1-800-677-SIFE or visit www.SIFE.org.

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Bethune-Cookman is a comprehensive college, which offers degrees in liberal arts as well as professional fields, such as business, education and nursing. A United Methodist Church-affiliated school, the College has a diverse and international student population of more than 2,700 and a solid reputation for academic excellence and community service. As evidence of its outstanding program, the College has been listed in the Templeton Honor Roll of Character Building Colleges and Universities, and it was ranked by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the “Top 50” schools in the nation for black students.  B-CC is one of 10 charter member colleges of Project Pericles, a program to create civic leadership and involvement on its member campuses.  The College will celebrate its 100^th year of founding on October 4, 2004.

For more information, contact our website www.bethune.cookman.edu. 

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