Hello Again!

I just got back from the SIFE regional competition at Rhode Island yesterday. As our first year being a SIFE team, We reaped two trophies : Second runner up & Rookie of the Year. I'm proud of everyone on my team and all those fantastic projects we did during the past year.

Oh, I should probably tell you a little more about SIFE. Students in Free Enterprise(SIFE) is one of the largest international college students organizations that mobilizes university students to make a difference in the community by empowering people and creating economic opportunities through the resources of free enterprise. Each year, SIFE teams from around the U.S. will compete both at the regional and national levels by presenting our projects we have done to top business executives, and the U.S. national champion will go on to compete at the SIFE World Cup. Pretty exciting, isn't it?

This year, we have developed 13 projects, such as the business plan competition partnering Manchester Young Professionals Network, Business-within-Business for a family resource center located in Derry, NH, breast cancer walk, and two other international projects in southern Africa and China under development. We have been working with businesses, nonprofits, educational instituions to committ to the future of the greater manchester area.

We have gone through a long way from getting officially recognized and supported on campus to actually getting ourselved in shape for the regional competition. Luckily, we received support from the President's office, Campus Programming and Leadership, School of Business, center of entrepreneurship and Student Government Association. SIFE SNHU chapter is getting bigger and stronger every day.

The regional champion told us after that they were impressed by such a outstanding "rookie" , and they will have to watch their back next year. :)

What impress me most are my teammates who are, I can say, perfect demonstrations of the saying: one never realizes one's full potential until he pushes the envelop. At the very beginning, we couldn't even pull together a complete presentation. Fortunate for us, our two sam walton fellows: Keith Moon and Lucy Moon, certainly know how to bring out the best of each individual on the team. We have been grilled real hard during this one-month preparation, I have to say. But everyting bit of hard work paid off really well in the end. We literally went from duckling to swans!

People always say that you must find what you are passionate about, and stick to it. For me personally, it's the moment I'm lost that I find the right thing. It's such a wonderful feeling to be part of a great organization that every second I spent for it is a beautiful brush stroke in a page of my life; that evey morning, I couldn't wait to jump out of my bed, knowing that I have some important work to do.

You know what's the best part? It's knowing that every action you take is going to make a huge difference in someone else's life. It's not just about you anymore, it's more about the world we live in. It's not an era of one super hero, it the age of responsible global citizens.

A head for business, A heart for the world... Proud to be a SIFer!