CTC SIFE Team among top 40 in the nation

The CTC Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team recently earned opening round first runner-up honors at the SIFE National Exposition in Minneapolis, MN. A total of 169 regional champion teams (11 two-year colleges and 158 four-year universities) competed for the SIFE National Championship. The team's showing placed them among the top 40 of more than 600 college and university SIFE Teams in the nation. CTC qualified for the national competition by winning its 14th consecutive regional championship last month.

This year's National Exposition marked the first year CTC competed against four-year universities. In its opening round league, CTC was pitted against eight other four-year schools and defeated seven of them including Texas A&M University to earn the first runner-up position. Only the top finishers in each opening round league advanced to the final round of competition.

The teams were judged on the number and effectiveness of outreach projects promoting America 's free enterprise system completed during the year. The projects were presented in a written report and on the team's 24-minute oral power point/multi-media presentation to a panel judges from SIFE donor companies. The written report and multi- media presentation described the 51 free enterprise education projects completed this year which reached 7,231 school children, college students and citizens at large. SIFE students worked 4,184 hours outside of the classroom on SIFE projects this school year.

CTC was represented at the SIFE National Exposition by William Smith, president; Brian Tomczek, vice president; Takeia Goodwin, media coordinator; Angela Green, secretary; Jamie Chandler, Pedro Estrada and Jason Pietras. First runner-up honors earned the SIFE Team $1,000 and a trophy.