A brief summary of SIFE AGM

The Annual General Meeting of NUS Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) was held on 31 October at the Alumni House. Martin, Zhang lina and I attended the meeting. There were corporate leaders from HSBC, Chesterton International and AIG, professors from Business School as well as from USP and Political Science, and student leaders from other clubs and societies in NUS attended the meeting. They officially were welcoming in the new blood of NUS SIFE while ushering out the old committee. There was also a brief introduction to NUS SIFE and its direction in the coming year, and their portfolio of projects. Surprisingly few student leaders attended the meeting. I guess few people know about the meeting or even SIFE itself. By the way, the Light refreshments served after the meeting was quite good ^_^. SIFE is a global non-profit organization active in more than 40 countries. SIFE is funded by financial contributions from corporations, entrepreneurs, foundations, government agencies and individuals. Working in partnership with business and higher education, SIFE establishes student teams on university campuses. These teams are led by faculty advisors and they are challenged to develop community outreach projects that reach SIFE's five educational topics: • Market Economics • Success Skills • Entrepreneurship • Financial Literacy • Business Ethics SIFE team members leverage their personal educational experiences, the expertise of their faculty advisors, the support of their local business advisory boards, and the resources of their institutions to implement programs that create real economic opportunities for members of their communities. The effectiveness of their programs is judged at competition. Each national SIFE organization conducts a national competition, which is judged by leaders from its business community. At competition, SIFE teams present the results of their educational outreach projects and compete to determine which team was most successful at creating economic opportunity for others. SIFE National Champion teams advance to the top level of competition, the SIFE World Cup. For further information about SIFE, please refer to http://www.sife.org/