Students trying the make deals during the Trading Game
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the
impossible
-Anonymous
E CITY
...it's working
Join us at our Third E CITYwide Business Competition
When: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Where:
Trinity Commons
2230 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Enter off Prospect just East of East 22nd)
Second E CITYwide Competition on Tuesday, December 18th,
2007
.
Raquel Fuentes fourth place winner in the second ECITYwide
competition tell us about her successful business and future plans
on Chanel 3 News
Over 130 guests attended our
second E CITYwide Competition
Thank you
to Dr. Eugene Sanders, CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan
School District, who was our featured speaker. And thank you to
John Hay High School for hosting the event in the
school's beautifully renovated auditorium.
We
congratulate these hard-working young entrepreneurs who were
finalists in the business plan competition:
1st
Place:
Michael
McCaleb
Max Hayes High School
$1,000
2nd
Place:
Derrick Pender
Warrensville Heights High School
$ 750
3rd
Place:
Devon
Rodgers
Warrensville Heights High School
$ 500
4th
Place:
Raquel
Fuentes
SuccessTech Academy
$ 250
Winners, Judges Dr. Sanders, and John Zitzner at E Citywide
competition
And,
congrats to these additional students who participated in the
preliminary rounds:
Jamaal Bledsoe
Max Hayes High School
Carmen Edmonds
John F. Kennedy High School
Danielle
Flemister
SuccessTech Academy
ShaQuanta Hadley
South High School
DeShaun
Hardrick
New Day Academy
Courtney James
John F. Kennedy High School
All of
these students completed one of the seven E CITY youth
entrepreneurship programs offered in Cleveland schools this
fall. Each was named the winner in the competition held within
his/her class, and thereby qualified to compete for business
start-up capital prizes at the E CITYwide Competition.
In addition
to the many volunteers and Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers
who helped these students get this far, we thank our
volunteer judges who reviewed student business plans,
listened to the presentations, and gave thoughtful feedback:
