Coming home with 3 awards from ACE Regional Competition
The bright ideas of Ted Rogers School of Management students have earned them top awards at a recent competition.
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Ryerson were big winners at the 2010 Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Central Canada Regional Exposition, winning two of three challenges and finishing second in the other. The ACE event is an annual contest for students to develop economic and learning opportunities for target audiences in their community.
SIFE Ryerson went up against 17 university teams from central Ontario to become regional champions in both the HSBC SIFE Financial Education and SIFE Green – Environmental Sustainability contests. The team was the runner-up in the TD SIFE Entrepreneurship challenge.
“It feels great to win. This is the first time SIFE Ryerson participated in three challenges at the regional competitions. Our achievements are a reflection of everything we’ve worked for, on programs that are making a real difference in the community. I’m extremely proud of the team,” said Rohan Sharma, SIFE Ryerson president.
SIFE Ryerson won the inaugural sustainability challenge for three ideas the team developed: RU Green Challenge, a six-week environmental initiative encouraging individuals to make more environmentally sustainable decisions; Customized Informatics Solutions, a project that helps existing businesses implement environmentally responsible strategies; and the BlackBerry Green App Challenge, an international contest for BlackBerry users to create a concept for an application that solves a common environmental or sustainability issue within a company.
SIFE Ryerson won the HSBC SIFE Financial Education championship title for Start Smart, a program that gives secondary school students the necessary tools to save money for their future. Members of SIFE Ryerson teach students about the importance and value of financial planning.
The SIFE Ryerson team will travel to Calgary in May for the 2010 ACE National Exposition to defend their national championship in financial education. They will also compete against more than 50 teams from across the country for a chance to represent Canada in the 2010 SIFE World Cup in Los Angeles in October. The teams have to develop a 24-minute live presentation, complete with annual report, to convey their overall community impact to panels of business representatives.
