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Show Business Seminar Set Prominent Utah business leaders, students, teachers and special guests will gather together Aug. 8-14 on the campus cam-pus of Utah State University to participate in the second annual "Utah Business Week." SPONSORED by the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Com-merce in cooperation with the Utah State Board of Education and Utah State University, Utah Business Week is the largest free enterprise seminar of its kind in the state. More than 215 high school students and 26 teachers will take part in daily group discussions. discus-sions. Participants will learn about small and large business operations, concepts of private pri-vate enterprise and will have a hands-on experience in learning learn-ing what it takes to start and operate a business. ACTIVITIES official began on Sunday with registration and orientation followed by a barbecue for all participants and their families. The first general assembly was held that night in the Eccles Convention Center, with keynote speaker Dr. Henry B. Eyring, Commissioner Commis-sioner of Education, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first day of the conference, confer-ence, student and teachers participants were divided into a small unit called a "conv pany" comprised of 12 people. A total of 20 companies were formed with a business professional profes-sional donating time to act as a "company advisor" for each dompany. A MAJOR highlight and learning tool for the group centered cen-tered around a computer game that simulates actual business operation in a model marketplace. market-place. Within each company, three "firms" will be formed with four people in each firm. These three firms will compete among themselves in this model mod-el mark'. place created by the corr; ater. Each firm will make .cisions regarding production, produc-tion, supply and demand, mar- keting research and development, develop-ment, advertising, plant investment, in-vestment, and in many other areas which will impact on the firms sales, profits and ultimate ulti-mate success. THE COMPUTER game is designed to simulate the actual business world, showing the participants that their efforts to move their firms into a profitable pro-fitable position is affected positevely or adversely by the decisions and actions of competitive com-petitive firms. It teaches the free market system. Utah Business Week participants parti-cipants will experience a full-week full-week of varied activities. The fast-paced schedule will keep them going from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. with meetings, speakers, field trips and skits put on by teachers and students. THE SCHEDULE includes a short recreation period each day where challenges in soft-ball, soft-ball, volleyball, touch football and other competitions will take place among the companies. com-panies. Classes, seminars and general gen-eral assemblies will be held in the Life Span Learning Center located in the center of campus. cam-pus. The new conference facility facil-ity is complete with auditorium, auditor-ium, audio-visually equipped classrooms and functional workrooms. It is easily accessible acces-sible from the dorms where su-dents su-dents will stay and from eating areas in the student union. THE PURPOSE of this seminar semi-nar is to highly motivate students stu-dents and teach free enterprise. enter-prise. Utah Business Week Chairman Chair-man Dale Zabriskie says, "We had a very successful first effort last year and are pleased with the growth in members we have been able to realize. We appreciate the financial and personnel support we receive re-ceive from business organizations organiza-tions throughout the state." |