Flagler SIFE

We made it to the semifinals! We will be presenting tomorrow again in the top 20!

More information later!

Bull Pen Unleashed!
The Rally of Champions was incredible! The entire team got to run up onto the stage, wave the American flag and show our Flagler pride. We watched as the trophy that once decorated our student center was once again brought to the stage for this year’s SIFE USA National Champions.

We won first place in the Campbell’s Lets Can Hunger, Hunger Awareness competition. The award included $750 for the team and a plaque! We are incredibly proud of our two freshman members who headed that program Jessie Quick and Ryan Ledonne.

We saw Joel Conner and Jack Shewmaker at the Rally and they stopped to say hi and meet our new members. We are so excited for the competition to begin! We present at 11:20, if you want immediate updates check our twitter and Facebook!

(right) Ryan Ledonne receiving Let’s Can Hunger award from Doug Conant President and CEO of Campbell Soup.
(left)Pictured from left, Barry Sand, Emily Marcelles, Joel Conner CEO and Chairman of Bellisio Foods and Chairman of the Board of SIFE, Victoria Van Arnam and Donna DeLorenzo.

Last night we had a spectacular dinner with the President of Winmark Corporation, the head of Winmark’s Training Department, and the Play It Again Sports Training head. The presentation team had a wonderful time getting to explore some of the city and relax after the long flight and weeks of working around the clock. We are now getting back to work!

The rest of the team is on their way, we will be having a late lunch, practicing, and then we’ll head off to the Rally of Champions. We are so excited for the competition to begin!

Pictured finishing dinner, Katie Salmi left, and Angie Benson Director of Winmark Training.
Photo courtesy of Hannah Garner

Got up at 3:30, to go to Jacksonville for our flight. We are now on the plane to Minneapolis! Everyone is ready to do their best (after a little nap)! More later.
Photo of Mike Lambert, Courtesy of Joe King.

Lets Can Hunger
Flagler SIFE has been chosen as one of the nine finalists for Campbell’s Let’s Can Hunger Challge! We collected 3,042 cans, all of which we donated to St. Francis House, a local hunger relief organization. We look forward to the competition results which will be announced May 11, 2010 at the SIFE USA National Exposition.

Schools out for Summer!
Flagler College SIFE students are ecstatic about school coming to a close. Finals ended last week, we have been spending all of our time perfecting our projects and getting ready for competition.

Containers for a Cause
The Containers for a Cause project is moving along at a lightning pace. Within the next few days, we have multiple meetings planned with some great people in the community who are helping us turn our homeless rehabilitation center into a reality. We’ve made tons of headway over the past year and with each new day we get that much closer to our final goal! We have a video of some of the pictures taken at our Cardboard Campout. Check it out and leave your comments!

Conservation Cadets
Conservation Cadets editing is now complete and is available for viewing on our Flagler College SIFE’s YouTube and on the Flagler SIFE website! Huge thanks and congratulations to the team members who have contributed so much time to filming and editing the videos for this project!

On Friday Barry and Donna announced the SIFE officers for 2010 and 2011.

Victoria Van Arnam & Emily Marcellus

Co-Presidents

Alyssa Murfey & Jesse Quick

Co-Vice Presidents

Beth Houston

Secretary (will receive a “co” soon)

Stevie J. Schenk & Shannon Greene

Directors of Marketing

Justin LaVerdiere & Ryan Ledonne

Directors of Finance

Rachael Holgate

Transitional Coordinator

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More news coming soon!

The team is so excited and so honored about moving on to nationals in Minneapolis. The end of school is rapidly approaching; we will soon be able to work on SIFE all day long without having to worry about classes! We have a two week “break” between our last week of class and nationals that will be nonstop fun.

The Lets Can Hunger (LCH) initiative has collected 687 cans which we turned in at regionals. This last weekend we were at the St. Augustine Friday night Art Walk. This weekend, the 10^th and 11^th, LCH will be at the St. Augustine Art Association Spring Festival at St. Francis Field by the Parking Garage. If you are in the area please come by!

The Cardboard Campout was a great success! Thanks to everyone who donated money and slept on the West Lawn with us. To see photos and video of the event go here.

Flagler SIFE won the regional competition and will be proceeding to nationals in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May. This regionals had some tough competition but the reigning national champions prevailed as results were announced on Monday at the award ceremony.
Flagler SIFE won the Entrepreneurship Individual Topic Competition with their TAPED Ethical Training video.
Flagler SIFE also attended a small reception with individuals from Sam’s Club corporate offices.

The team is ecstatic and exhausted, after a week break general and competition preparation meetings will resume as everyone is ready for more.

The last day of practice went great today. Yesterday, we performed a formal presentation for some of the college staff and they loved it. We’ll be meeting at 6:30 in the morning for the seven hour road trip to Charlotte, NC. The 40 team members are hoping to get some sleep on the ride up along with some Q&A and presentation practice.

Regionals is getting close, we will be competing on March 29th in Charlotte, NC! Flagler SIFE is finishing up projects and taking those last few photos to make everything just right.

We just held our Let’s Can Hunger challenge at First Friday Art Walk last week, which was a huge success. There was a great turnout and we collected a lot of cans and donations.

The Business Advisory Board presentation will be on the 16th from 5-6:30PM. We are thrilled by the feedback thus far and cannot wait for our dress rehearsal next week.

The presenters and alternates have also been finalized and are listed below:

Presenters:
Alyssa Murfey
Shelia Acharya
Jessica Welch
Jaclyn Wilmers
Kameron Lapp
Joe King

Alternates:
Mike Lambert
Rachael Holgate
Katherine Baggett

Tech Team:
Victoria Van Arnam
Hannah Garner
Ryan Ledonne
Joel Green