Content
USC hosts event for enterprising school students
Hundreds of business students from high schools across the Sunshine Coast are in for a special treat at a Business Enterprise Day at Noosa Junction on Friday 10 August.
Keynote speaker at the event, run by the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Faculty of Business and the Business Educators Association of Queensland, will be best-selling author and motivational speaker Rachael Bermingham.
Ms Bermingham will impart her knowledge and strategies for achieving success in a presentation on “Making Money from Home”, drawing on her own journey from hairdresser to shark diver, travel agent and author.
Popular for her passion, enthusiasm, openness and entrepreneurial spirit, Ms Bermingham is regularly featured in the media, including TV programs like Sunrise, Mornings with Kerri-Anne, The Great South East and Brisbane Extra.
The Business Enterprise Day will be held at the USC Noosa Centre at The J, Noosa Junction, from 9.30am to 1.30pm. More than 230 Year 9 and 10 students from Coolum, Kawana Waters and Nambour State High schools, and from Pacific Lutheran College and Matthew Flinders Anglican College are expected to attend.
USC Faculty of Business staff and students and about 20 business representatives also will provide key business insights into business planning, accounting, marketing, e-commerce, human resource management and information technology.
USC Industry Liaison Officer Melissa Sheridan said the Business Enterprise Day would be interactive, practical and experiential in nature involving group work, problem solving, case studies and individual and group reflective activities.
“With the school student setting up and operating ‘small businesses’ as part of their school-work this semester, the Business Enterprise Day has been designed to provide students with a greater understanding of entrepreneurship at work,” she said.
“It will give the students active participation in the learning experience with exposure to new business concepts, today’s business issues and the opportunity to have some fun.”
– Terry Walsh