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MELANIE ANDERSON, UPT SIFE ADVISOR, NAMED SAM WALTON FELLOW THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR
SIFE TEAM NAMED REGIONAL CHAMPS
TITUSVILLE, Oct. 11 -- Melanie O. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Business and Director of Continuing Education at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, has been named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team for the third consecutive year. Anderson serves as the SIFE Team Advisor. The Fellowship was created in 1990 by the WalMart Foundation and named for Samuel More Walton, founder and chairman of WalMart Stores, Inc. It recognizes Anderson’s leadership and support of the SIFE Team at UPT. Under Anderson’s direction, the SIFE Team presented its educational outreach projects at the 2002 SIFE Regional Competition and Career Opportunity Fair on April 4, in Cleveland, Ohio. The SIFE Team received three awards and $2,500 in prize money. They were selected as regional champions in the 2-year school division, and will compete in the SIFE USA National Competition in Kansas City, Missouri in May. In addition, they were named as finalists in the Responsible Use of Credit Special Competition for their “Weakest Link” project, and as a finalist in the Discover Financial Services Teach a Child about Business Week special competition for their “E-SIFE” and “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” projects. “We worked hard this year in adding four new projects, which were very successful,” says Anderson. “The UPT SIFE Team did a terrific job of presenting our projects at the competition, and were rewarded for their efforts by being selected as regional champions.” SIFE is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with business and higher education to provide college students the opportunity to make a difference and to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise.
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