SIFE BYU-Idaho

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SIFE BYU-Idaho

• Creating Effective Projects

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What Makes a Good Project?

• Reach, content, judging criteria, media coverage
  impact.
• Understand and know the JUDGING CRITERIA
• Use Youth Entrepreneurship Curriculum
• Sife.org resources (examples of websites)

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Good Projects (continued)

• Start planning for Winter projects at the end of
  Fall semester.
• Tie the theme or mission into your projects.
• Brainstorming with these ideas in mind.
• Include Pre Post test (So what)
• Plan, Prepare, Practice, and Present (Practice
  Makes Perfect)

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Judging Criteria

• 1. How free markets work in the global economy.
• 2. How entrepreneurs succeed by identifying a
  market need and then profitably producing and
  marketing a product or service to fill that need.

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Judging Criteria

• 3. The personal entrepreneurial, communications,
  technological and financial management skills
  needed to successfully compete.
• 4. The importance of practicing business in an
  ethical and socially responsible manner that
  supports the principles of a market economy.

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Youth Entrepreneurship Websites

• Use existing curriculum available on the web for
  your projects.
• Bankjunior.com
• Bankrate.com
• Jumpstart.org
• SIFE.org (resources)
• Entreworld.com

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Procedure For Completing a Project

• Plan and present your project.
• Make sure digital pictures and video clips are
  taken (Documentation is key/Got testimonials?)
• Contact Media V.P. 2 weeks prior to project
  presentation to get media coverageVERY IMPORTANT

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Procedure For Completing a Project

• Fill out project information sheet and put all
  pictures on CD and turn in video to SIFE
  President.
• Cut out and record any media coverage and turn in
  to president.
• HAVE FUN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

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SIFE Changing the world . . .One Person at a
Time.
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Secrets to Success
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If You Say You Are Going To Do Something, Then
DO IT!BE RESPONSIBLE!!
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President Gordon B. Hinckley

• It is not enough to just be good. You must be
  good for something. You must contribute good to
  the world. The world must be a better place for
  your presence. And the good that is in you must
  be spread to others.