I was going to write a more personal version of this, but it’s taking too long, this is the media release that I edited about the SIFE National competition I attended last weekend.
Sydney, NSW 13/07/09
The UNSW SIFE team celebrates as we return from the 2009 National Students In Free Enterprise competition. Our dedication and hard work has paid off when we made it into the semi-final round of the main competition while picking up $2000 and a 10kg block of chocolate for winning the Cadbury Schweppes most inspiring community initiative award for our Indigenous Enterprise Project, a project that took team members to Northern Queensland to help Djarragun college address the issue of welfare dependency in their Indigenous community.
The SIFE UNSW projects for 2009 were:
• Indigenous Enterprise project – presented by Bernise Alviar
• Social Endeavour Prize – presented by Elaine Wong
• CarbonBusters – presented by Cissy Zhang
• Egyptian Ethical Tourism (EET) – presented by Prianka Nair
• Fully Frugal – presented by Edy-Theo Darmaputra
Our president Simona Das gave the team sustainability report, while our tech and design girl Sandy Do controlled the presentation. Special mention goes to Chantal Nguyen, Nicholas Ng, Shan Cao, Khiem Tudo and Nitasha Bhatia who also contributed enormously to the team.
Our member of 4 years and exec of 3 years Bernise Alviar was in tears of joy as she was recognised for her commitment to SIFE winning the “most outstanding SIFE student in Australia” award. Bernise has put in a spectacular amount of work for SIFE UNSW as Vice-President. She has inspired many students with her passion, marketing skills and strong leadership over the years. Her prize includes a trip to Berlin to attend the 2009 SIFE World Cup.
We lost to stiff competition in the semi-finals to Bond University, University of New England, Melbourne University and University of Western Australia. Congratulations to those four teams! Every one of them uniquely deserves to be there. Bond had the charismatic vice president whose booming voice put the audience in awe; UNE, the down to earth underdogs, had a remarkably authentic Australian vibe that epitomises the entrepreneurial success story; Melbourne inspired us with the grandeur of their organisation and with their impeccable execution of their presentation.
In the end it was UWA whose incredible achievements this year won the SIFE pride of the audience as well as the marks from the judges, taking out first place as winner of SIFE Australia National Competition 2009. They will be representing Australia at the 2009 SIFE World Cup in Berlin later this year.
Our UNSW team went into the competition not knowing what to expect, and we returned with morale higher than ever with a burning passion for the SIFE cause!
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