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Volunteers needed for Washington Business Week
June 13, 2008
For the third year in a row, 200 high school students will take over campus for a week in June to participate in the Washington Business Week Summer Program held at PLU.
The program takes place from June 22 to 28. It teaches high school students about business and leadership through hands-on learning, seminars, lectures and interactions with local business people.
Students are divided into groups of about 15, and each “company” runs a computer-simulated business during the week. The program culminates in a trade show event, where students apply what they learned by marketing a new product.
Volunteers are still needed to serve as judges at the trade show event on Friday, June 27. Any employee with at least a couple years of experience is qualified. The program is particularly interested in having more PLU experts involved.
Being a judge only requires a three-and-a-half-hour time commitment. Judges participate in two events: presentations by each company about the decisions they made in the computer simulation, and the trade show.
For more information, and to access volunteer applications, visit Washington Business Week’s Volunteer Web site. Washington Business Week started in 1976 at Central Washington University in Walla Walla. It eventually expanded to Gonzaga University in Spokane, Western Washington University in Bellingham, and most recently, to PLU.
Students are divided into groups of about 15, and each “company” runs a computer-simulated business during the week. The program culminates in a trade show event, where students apply what they learned by marketing a new product.
Volunteers are still needed to serve as judges at the trade show event on Friday, June 27. Any employee with at least a couple years of experience is qualified. The program is particularly interested in having more PLU experts involved.
Being a judge only requires a three-and-a-half-hour time commitment. Judges participate in two events: presentations by each company about the decisions they made in the computer simulation, and the trade show.
For more information, and to access volunteer applications, visit Washington Business Week’s Volunteer Web site. Washington Business Week started in 1976 at Central Washington University in Walla Walla. It eventually expanded to Gonzaga University in Spokane, Western Washington University in Bellingham, and most recently, to PLU.