Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:03:26 -0800 (PST)
x-posted from CenAsia
Three teams have won the SIFE regional competition in Bishkek. They are:
* The Technological University of Tajikistan-Khujand
* The Kyrgyz American School
* Kazak State University
The first international regional competition of the Students in Free
Enterprise (SIFE) organization to be held out of the United States was held
in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on March 20, 1996. The Central Asian SIFE program
is sponsoring the competition for eleven teams from universities in
Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The top finalist teams will come to
the US to compete with other teams in May, 1996.
CA SIFE is a student generated program which has sparked the competitive
spirit of university students in Central Asia. SIFE is a partnership
between business and higher education to help students respond directly to
the needs of their communities. SIFE enables students to acquire strong
communication skills, team building and management skills by doing outreach
projects which provide a balance between the social responsibility of
business and profits in an open market system. The completed projects were
presented to a panel of 20 judges from the business and educational
communities.
The outreach projects are limited only by the students imaginations and
this year include:
starting school newspapers,
student governments,
feeding and marketing cattle,
business education programs on television,
outreach to help families with many children by donating
clothes and helping the teenagers with job skills,
seminars at secondary schools, and
business information data bases
This competition would not have been possible without the volunteer work of
many people in the three Central Asian countries and in the US. This has
been a cooperative effort on a regional and international level which has
spanned the boundaries of nationalism. The enthusiasm and ingenuity of the
student teams has been infectious. For further details contact the
following:
Betty Hutchinson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[email protected] and
Robin Anderson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[email protected]
Aida Kalymbetova
Kazak Institute of Economics, Management and Strategic Research
[email protected]
Camilla Sharshekeeva
Kyrgyz American School
[email protected]
Kasim Islamov
Tajik Center for Entrepreneurship and Management
[email protected]
Pulat Pulatov
Technological University of Tajikistan
[email protected]
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