This past Wednesday, the Flagler SIFE team was invited to meet with Gorge Lindemann President and CEO of Standard Union at White hall, Henery M. Flagler’s Palm Beach home. Over lunch Mr. Lindemann talked with various SIFE students about the importance of being persistent in business, "If you can't get in through the front door, try the back door. If that doesn't work start looking for a window." After lunch SIFE students were able to tour the historic home of industrialist Henry Flagler, who our College is named after. It was amazing to see another beautiful Gilded Age building so much like our Ponce De Leon Hotel.
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The team is working hard to prepare for our regional competition, which is just five weeks away.
Last night we completed filming for Suruwat and will begin editing today. We plan on distributing the video next week and are thrilled by the enthusiasm we have received thus far with this "how to" assimilation program. Suruwat is also being used as the feature story for this term's Flagler Magazine!
As for Winmark Training video, the conference presentation was amazing. Winmark staff, franchisees, and managers all loved the video. In our video survey 100% asked for additional videos! Steve Murphy, the President of Winmark, said told us that as this project evolves into a formal business we can count Winmark as our first official customer! We also chose a name for the program:T.A.P.E.D or Teaching Associates Proper Ethics Daily.
A new project that we are working on in our housing for the homeless program which will create a rehabilitation center to integrate St. Johns' County homeless back into society. The former Mayor of St. Augustine donated our initial supplies to get this program started. The project is progressing rapidly and although it will not be ready for regionals we are very excited by the community support we have received.
Thank you so much for your support of Flagler SIFE. If you have any project questions or suggestions please let us know!
Thank you,
The Flagler SIFE Team
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Onward
Flagler SIFE has welcomed 10 incredible new members to the team since the semester began a few weeks ago. We are so excited by the enthusiasm and drive these new members already have for SIFE and our projects. Some of our new members have even designed and started working on an extremely ambitions project for next year that will be an amazing opportunity for Flagler SIFE.
In addition to new members the team has been busy with projects and competition preparation. This has been a hectic past two weeks, here are some of our biggest team updates for the past week:
The biggest accomplishment this week is the completion and submission of all 6 of our Individual Topic Competition (ITCs)! We will find out at regionals if we finaled in any of the ITC categories we submitted, regional ITC finalists receive a trophy and prize money during the award ceremony. In addition to getting past this first competition hurdle, completion of ITCs means that we have framed our projects and are ready to start writing the script.
Our Ethics Training Program for Winmark is complete along with the accompanying supplemental information packet. Last year's video was great, and this years video is even better! Jessica, Kameron and Katie will be leaving Sunday February 14th to go to Las Vegas to present the video and supplemental information packet at Winmark's conference and trade show.
The Suruwat video will be filmed this Friday and Saturday and we are having fun preparing to make our second "major motion picture" of the year :)
We held auditions for Consumer Cadets and Conservation Cadets last week and were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the community and the great kids who came out for casting. We will begin filming both segments next week.
These updates are just a glimpse into what we have been doing the past week. We would like to thank everyone who has been working with us on these and our other projects!
In addition to new members the team has been busy with projects and competition preparation. This has been a hectic past two weeks, here are some of our biggest team updates for the past week:
The biggest accomplishment this week is the completion and submission of all 6 of our Individual Topic Competition (ITCs)! We will find out at regionals if we finaled in any of the ITC categories we submitted, regional ITC finalists receive a trophy and prize money during the award ceremony. In addition to getting past this first competition hurdle, completion of ITCs means that we have framed our projects and are ready to start writing the script.
Our Ethics Training Program for Winmark is complete along with the accompanying supplemental information packet. Last year's video was great, and this years video is even better! Jessica, Kameron and Katie will be leaving Sunday February 14th to go to Las Vegas to present the video and supplemental information packet at Winmark's conference and trade show.
The Suruwat video will be filmed this Friday and Saturday and we are having fun preparing to make our second "major motion picture" of the year :)
We held auditions for Consumer Cadets and Conservation Cadets last week and were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the community and the great kids who came out for casting. We will begin filming both segments next week.
These updates are just a glimpse into what we have been doing the past week. We would like to thank everyone who has been working with us on these and our other projects!
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