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The Univ ersiity Daily K ansan
Thursday, April 15, 1999
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KU students purchase laptop computers for use as learning tools
Entrepreneurs outline business plan
By Scott Hollis
Special to the Kansar
Members of KU Students In Free Enterprise returned from a regional business competition Tuesday after presenting their plan to buy personal computers to use as educational tools.
SIFE outlined an entrepreneurial plan at the Denver competition that proposed to buy 10 laptop computers to use in the community and the campus with money the group made from selling discounted business class course packets.
Although the organization did not place at the competition, Jeff Morrow, faculty adviser for SIFE, said the computers arrived yesterday and that the plan still would begin as soon as possible.
plan still would begin as soon as Pavel Maravev, president of SIFE, said the plan was to use the computers to reach community members by running seminars in high schools. The main goal is to teach students how to buy a car, take care of their finances and manage their money.
Bob Cage, Colorado Springs, Colo., senior, examines a new laptop computer while Trevor Hammond, Lenexa senior, reaches into a computer box. The KU Students In Free Enterprise purchased the laptops with funds they raised themselves. Photo by Michael P. Kelly/KANSAN
Students would be given the opportunity to receive hands-on experience with the computers and would be taught a business lesson in terms they could understand.
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"The goal of this organization is to do something good for the community using our own entrepreneurial business plan." Maraev said.
Candace Pasquale, Chicago senior, said that SIFE would be traveling to 20 high schools per year for three years teaching students how to use the laptops. When the computers are not being used in high schools, they will be used in University of Kansas business classes.
Pasquale said that SIFE financed the plan and purchased the computers at a discount rate of $499 each. The business competition, which included different SIFE chapters around the region, judged the teams on the quality and success of their business plans. Winners received cash prizes.
"The goal of the business competition was how to creatively demonstrate and teach market economy and how well you use your resources and volunteer services." Pasquale said.
Pasquale said that although SIFE had only been together for about one year, it had accomplished *a*
lot in such a short time.
"In that one year that we've been together on this, we've done a tremendous amount of work," she said. "We will continue to work on it for next year's competition."
Morrow said the organization was special because it was self-supporting.
"No one gave us any money to do this," he said.
"We're the kind of people who would rather go out and make money to do this instead of ask for it."
—Edited by Kelly Closen
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