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Show Two atte ndb us iness week proplo who iiro ;ii'tually involved in liiisinoss operations on ii day-to-day hasis to explain those tilings to the business Week participants." .students and teachers attending I 'tali Husiness Week will form and operate small businesses in eompetition with eaeh other through the use of a eonipuler. This nives them some actual hands-on hands-on husiness experience. and lets them see the consequences of various luisuvcss decisions," .aluiskie said. " Nearly :(i husiness ;, people throughout the state will volunteer their time to participate (luring' I'tah Husiness Week. S o m e husiness representatives will he speakers, -others will spend the entire week serving as company advisors. I tah Business Week is an outgrowth of a program started six years ago in Washington State. It has spread to several other states including in-cluding Oregon. Idaho, New Mexico ami New Hampshire. In I'tah it is -an expansion of a two-day seminar held the past two years in St. George and sponsored by the Salt Lake Area ('haml)er of Commerce. - Mary Kllen Kenny and Alan Zundcll, students at Cedar High School, will lx' among high school students and teachers Irom throughout the state who will be learning all about the American free enterprise system at a program called I'tah Business Week July at I'tah State University in Logan. Nearly "IM high school students, who will be cither juniors or seniors next year, and no high school teachers will participate in the. program. I'tah Business Week is sponsored by the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, 1'lah State t'niversity and the Utah State Board of Kducation. The funding lor the program has come from private donations by business I inns and organizations. "The purpose of I'tah Business Week is to allow high school students and teachers to learn about business directly Irom business people," said Dale Zabriskie, manager of communications for Mountain Fuel Supply Company and chairman of I'tah Business Week. There is much misunderstanding about business, how businesses are lormed. how they operate, how much they earn and w hy the making ol a pro! it is so important. There is also little knowledge about the impact of regulation and inllation on the business community and how that in turn impacts everyone. Business Week allows |