The Coastal
Carolina University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
Team matched their educational outreach projects against the programs
of other SIFE Teams at the 2000 SIFE Regional Exposition and Career
Opportunity Fair held recently in Charlotte, N.C. In its first year,
Coastal's SIFE Team captured First Runner-Up and Rookie of the Year
awards at the event.
SIFE encourages students to take what they are learning in the
classroom and apply it to real-life situations, and to use their
knowledge to better their communities through educational outreach
projects. The projects presented by Coastal's SIFE members included
career development projects with other CCU students and a Teach A Child
About Business Week activity involving first, second, and fourth
graders at Carolina Forest Elementary School and sixth and seventh
graders at Myrtle Beach Middle School.
Coastal business majors participating this year in the SIFE
programs included: Joshua Barr, a senior from Reston, Va.; Matt Bowman,
a senior from Myrtle Beach; Jill Brogdon, a senior from Nichols; team
leader Melissa Brumble, a senior from Dillion; Angela Buffkin, a senior
from Murrells Inlet; Elanit Hasas, a junior from Myrtle Beach; Mary
Anne Kisselburg, a senior from Hudson, N.Y.; Christopher Langley, a
senior from Alexandria, Va.; Nathan McBee, a senior from Swanton, Md.;
Misty Pendergraft, a senior from Lake City; Elizabeth Tilley, a senior
from Myrtle Beach; and Shellie White, a senior from Myrtle Beach.
Regional champions will present their projects at the Hallmark/
SIFE International Exposition and Career Opportunity Fair in Kansas
City, May 21 to 23.
Darla Domke-Damonte, adviser to the group and assistant professor
of management at Coastal, was named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise
Fellow in recognition of her leadership and support of the SIFE program
at Coastal.
SIFE is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with
business and higher education to provide college students the
opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills
through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free
enterprise.
For more information contact, Domke-Damonte at 349-2129, or visit
www.SIFE.org.
