College of Business and Technology
SBA to host high school entrepreneurial competition
Morehead State University’s School of Business Administration (SBA) will facilitate a regional high school entrepreneurial competition on Wednesday, Dec. 5, on the MSU campus. The competition will include students in ninth through 12th grades who won local entrepreneurial competitions. The competition will be judged based the following criteria:
- Application of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics skills.
- Application and understanding of business concepts.
- Use of technology in the overall distribution and marketing of the product or service.
- Prototype design and development.
- Display for business.
- Written business plan.
- Overall research.
- Oral presentation.
“Students will learn how to create a business and how to make an income from that business,” said Dr. Janet Ratliff, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship and instructor of the BBA 350 class. “Being an entrepreneur or small business owner allows one to have the opportunity to create jobs for those around them and to better the communities in which they live through economic development. It is our hope that as young men and women throughout our region begin to think about their future, the exposure to entrepreneurship will spark a desire in each of them to think about entrepreneurship as a viable future occupation regardless of the field they later pursue.”
The competition is sponsored by the SBA, MSU’s Elmer R. Smith College of Business and Technology, the Booth Entrepreneurship Center, and the Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative.
For more information about the competition, contact Ratliff at j.ratliff@moreheadstate.edu or call 606-783-2390.
For information on MSU’s School of Business Administration, visit www.moreheadstate.edu/sba or call 606-783-2090.
