SIFE Team Wins at Regional Competition
and Competes at National Competition

The UNF Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team returned to Jacksonville as winners after participating in the SIFE USA Regional Competition in April 2005 in Atlanta. The event was one of 21 SIFE USA Regional Competitions being held across the United States.

After presenting a report of their year-long community outreach projects to a panel of business leaders, the SIFE team was named a SIFE USA Regional Champion in the overall competition and a finalist in the SIFE USA National Free Market Economics Competition. The team advanced to the national level of SIFE competition at the SIFE USA National Exposition in May 2005 in Kansas City and made it all the way to the semi-finals!

SIFE is an international non-profit organization active on over 1,800 university campuses in more than 40 countries. SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that teach: market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics. Their projects are judged at competition on creativity, innovation and effectiveness. During the past academic year, the SIFE team developed and completed 18 educational outreach projects in the Jacksonville community to promote the principles of entrepreneurship.