IPA Judge "Student In Free Enterprise" (SIFE) Chicago Regional Competition

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Jennifer Valencia
IPA
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Buffalo Grove, Ill. (March 29, 2006) - IPA executive, Larry Lang, served as a judge this week for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Regional Competition in Chicago this week.

SIFE is a global non-profit organization active in more than 40 countries. It is funded by financial contributions from corporations, entrepreneurs, foundations, government agencies and individuals. Working in partnership with business and higher education, SIFE establishes student teams on university campuses. These teams are led by faculty advisors and they are challenged to develop community outreach projects that reach five educational topics:

Market Economics
Success Skills
Entrepreneurship
Financial Literacy
Business Ethics

Team members leverage their personal educational experiences, the expertise of their faculty advisors, the support of their local business advisory boards, and the resources of their institutions to implement programs that create real economic opportunities for members of their communities. The effectiveness of their programs is judged at competition. Each national SIFE organization conducts a national competition, which is judged by leaders from its business community. At competition, teams present the results of their educational outreach projects and compete to determine which team was most successful at creating economic opportunity for others. SIFE National Champion teams advance to the top level of competition, the SIFE World Cup in Paris, France.

Lang, IPA’s executive director of human resources, reviewed and rated the performance of collegiate teams and submitted entries.

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