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FCSIFE has been busy getting our projects underway as well as preparing early for completion which will be held in Orlando in late March. At this past Wednesday’s general meeting Jessica Minch, former FCSIFE President and this year’s Miss Florida, spoke to the team about preparing for competition and auditioning for the competition’s presentation team.

Students from Flagler’s Reality Programming class, which is spearheading the Ken Amaro/Amaro’s Army project attended this past Wednesday’s general meeting and held auditions for an online spokesperson who will represent Amaro’s Army and introduce each program segment to online viewers. I’m excited to announce that Kameron Lapp was chosen as the spokesperson for this year’s Amaro’s Army program. Amaro’s Army segments can be seen twice a month on First Coast News, Jacksonville’s ABC/NCB affiliate. To view episodes online please go to http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/default.aspx and type in Amaro’s Army under the video search box to see all of our videos and online segments.

The team is getting ready for a busy, but hopefully fruitful October with numerous upcoming projects and events. All of our events family friendly and open to the public and I strongly encourage you attend if you are available.

I’m proud to announce that this Saturday, October 11, 2008 will be our annual Kids’ Marketplace. The market will run from 11:00-3:00 at Saint Francis Field in conjunction with the eleventh annual Saint Augustine Greek Festival. Since this is the first year we are working with the Greek Festival we were limited to the number of students we could bring, we have twenty-five students signed-up to attend. Our project leaders for this program, Amanda Cassella and Sierra Rubright, have done a spectacular job preparing for this event. We hope to see you there!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 FCSIFE will be working with Rosa Loves for their second Anniversary Party at Café Eleven. The event will run all evening and will have some of Rosa Loves’ newest t-shirts which will be fundraising for current projects, including the Saint Augustine Transportation Project (AKA the Bicycle Project) co-sponsored by FCSIFE.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 FCSIFE will hold our first Business Advisory Board (BAB) meeting for the semester. The event will be held in Markland from 5:00 to 7:00, come and go as necessary. The primary focus of the evening will be brainstorming an ethics project which FCSIFE will organize and host second semester.

Saturday, October 18, 2008 FCSIFE will attend the annual Walgreens Training Conference sponsored by SIFE headquarters at the University of North Florida (UNF). This all-day event is an opportunity for FCSIFE to meet and work with SIFE teams throughout Florida and Georgia, as well as, business leaders throughout North Florida. The primary goal of the event is to bring teams together through team-building activities and to discuss the purpose and focus of SIFE.

We will be hosting auditions for our presentation team at our general meeting on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. The auditions will be a short monologue and a brief question and answer period in an effort to choose a dynamic group to represent Flagler College and FCSIFE at our annual competition(s).

We Are Currently Working On:
Legacy Goes Green, complete implementation by mid-October/November
Avant Garbage Eco Art Show, November 7th
Greennovators, November 14-20th
West Augustine Factory
ARC Sandwich Shop, January 1st
Rosa Loves, Business Expansion
Rosa Loves, Bicycle Project

As always if you have any questions or suggestions we would love to hear from you!

Thank you,

Jessica Welch, SIFEPresident@flagler.edu

Hannah Garner, SIFEVicePresident@flagler.edu