Saskatchewan High School Business Case Competition

March 1 & 2, 2012

SASKATCHEWAN HIGH SCHOOL BUSINESS CASE COMPETITION

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EVENT GOALS

1. Increase high school student parti cipati on in Business Educati on courses across the province.

Student interest and engagement in business education can be enhanced through this exciting extra-curricular event.

2. Showcase elite student ’s business knowledge in an advanced learning environment.

The event will provide students the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with other students and educators from across the province.

3. Increase teacher membership in the SBTA, specifi cally from municipaliti es other than Regina.

Great opportunity to draw in participating business educators into the SBTA through the event.

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PROPOSED EVENT SCHEDULE

Two Day Event – Melfort, Saskatchewan

Thursday, March 1st

6:00 – 6:30 Registration and Opening Ceremonies

6:30 – 7:30 Dinner and Speaker

7:30 – 10:00 Evening Event

Friday, March 2nd

8:30 – 9:45 Entrepreneurship Presentation and Activity (led by local entrepreneur)

9:45 – 11:00 “How To” Case Preparation and Presentation Skills (led by EBUS 300 Class)

11:00 – 11:45 Lunch

11:45 – 2:45 Official Team Case Prep

2:45 – 3:15 1st Round Case Presentations (occur all at once)

3:15 – 4:00 Finalist Presentations (in front of remainder of students, teachers and judges)

4:00 – 5:00 Deliberation, Feedback , Awards and Wrap Up

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Case competi ti ons challenge students to think criti cally and creati vely about a real-life business case. Parti cipati ng students will gain a level of confi dence and professionalism that diff ers from any classroom assignment or acti vity.

Students are put into teams of 3 , hopefully with people they have worked with before (classmates)

Ideally students have some case experience prior to att ending the event. EBUS 300 could potenti ally put together a pre-event package for students and teachers to follow prior to att endance.

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CASE COMPETITION


CASE COMPETITION

Resolution

•In a specified time period (3 hours), students are required to read a business case (approx. 10 pages), identify the main problem, propose and implement a solution, state why they chose that solution, identify the risks associated and prepare a presentation.

Presentation

•After breaking down the case, students present their solution to a panel of 3-5 community business members and/or educators (top 3 teams selected to present a second time in the final)

•Case presentations are 10-15 minutes in length.

Q & A

•Following the presentation, judges are encouraged to ask 5 minutes of critical questions in context with the case.

•Judges are asked to treat this period as they would if they had just sat through a boardroom presentation.

Feedback

•After the final round of presentations, judges and competitors meet, with judges providing feedback for all competitors.


htt p://youtu.be/HCzA4IBMOFIAmazing experience, each year I returned moti vated and inspiredBoth educati onal and social I think we can start a small version of this in the high school

setti ng in Saskatchewan

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MOTIVATION

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Students may be lacking case break down skills and even some basic business management educati on.

The Workshop is an excellent opportunity to use this event as a learning experience for students . Perhaps case judges could give a brief presentati on to the students on a specifi c subject (whether it be entrepreneurship, accounti ng, personal fi nance, business management or other).

Further, the pre-interns could use some of this ti me to teach basic case breakdown and/or presentati on skills.

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WORKSHOP


BEST PRACTICE

Richard Ivey School of Business has been running a s imi lar event for high school students for the past 4-5 years

Student organized and operated event Extremely successful , part of the school

recruitment process Can leverage some of their experience

and business cases for our event


SBTA Annual Conference• March 2nd & 3rd • We attend as part

of our pre-internship

High School Student Case Competition• March 1st & 2nd • We plan the event

and report to SBTA leadership (and Cyril)

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FIT WITH EBUS 300

Challenge – Most of our planning time for this event will occur in the winter semester. However, most of the necessary planning will need to happen before January.


BUY IN

The only way this wi l l fl y is i f we al l buy in and put in the necessary eff ort . We have a chance to make a diff erence by successful ly organiz ing this event.

Going to take some planning and eff ort to make this successful .

What is in i t for you? Grow the program, gain

student interest , increase demand for these classes, which in turn wi l l open up more jobs for Business Educati on teachers.

Great resume bui lder.


Marketing and Promotion

•Austen, Ally and Kristine•Develop and distribute marketing material for BEd teachers and students•Find 10 student teams•Manage registration information

Curriculum and Logistics

•Kristen, Daniel and Joel•Develop pre-event packages for teachers•Determine potential curriculum tie-ins•Logistic management•Case selection

Sponsorship and Judges

•Cara, Danielle, Riley and AJ•Develop event budget and raise necessary funding from sponsors•Selecting 3-5 judges (local business professionals, teachers and professors)

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ROLES


Develop and distribute pre-event marketi ng material Why parti cipate? As a teacher, what is my role? Targeted students for this event

Contact high school BEd teachers and/or principles to gain support and att endance (10 schools, 3 students per school, 1 teacher)

Develop and distribute registrati on forms (both student and teacher)

Assemble the competi ti on booklet (bios, schedule, sponsor adverti sements, case analysis framework, etc.)

Create signage and promoti onal material for students (t-shirts, awards, photography, etc.)

Point of contact for parti cipati ng schools

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MARKETING AND PROMOTION


Finalize scheduleSecuring and organizing the locati on, rooms, transportati on,

meals, chaperoning, night event, opening and closing ceremonies, etc.

Develop material for teachers to use to prep their students on case deconstructi on (one or two lesson plans)

Case selecti on (for event and pre-event)“How To” deconstruct cases presentati on preparati on Manage day-of acti viti es and fl ow

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CURRICULUM INCORPORATION AND LOGISTICS


Develop necessary budget for eventDevelop and distribute sponsorship package (why sponsor this

event?)Locate sponsors by working with SBTA leadership, raise

necessary funding Locate and select 3-5 case judges (preferably from sponsors, but

may be supplemented with local business professionals, teachers or professors)

Writi ng bios on judgesDebrief judges on responsibiliti esDevelop evaluati on criteria for judgesPoint of contact for judges and sponsors

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SPONSORSHIP AND JUDGES


QUESTIONS & COMMENTS


Meet with your committ ee Identi fy committ ee “chair ”

Accountable for completing all necessary activities Communicate with other “chairs”, Joel and Cyril as necessary

Develop acti vity list, ti meline and identi fy who is accountable for each acti vity (see hand out)

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NEXT STEPS

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Saskatchewan High School Business Case Competition