学生竞赛让体育菠菜大平台出名

Ever wonder if you really can have the best of both worlds? If you ask the 体育菠菜大平台 students who recently participated in a couple of major competitions, they’ll tell you that their school has figured out how to use the coziness of small class size to their advantage. These 内布拉斯加大学 at Kearney students were recently able to prove that you don’t have to attend a large university to compete with one. 

Thanks to the experiential learning ubiquitous in classrooms across 体育菠菜大平台’s campus, these two groups of students put what they do on a daily basis to use while competing against students from larger universities. While these competitions were not part of their course requirements, these students were able to not only utilize what they’ve learned in class but also gain a better understanding of how to apply what they will ultimately use in their future professions. According to Interior and Product Design student Abby Mieras, the competition she attended “very much connected to everything” she does in class. 

对于这些学生, three who are majoring in Construction Management (CM) and two studying Interior and Product Design (IPD), traveling to Las Vegas to attend the National Association of 首页builders yearly competition validated the work they’ve done all semester. Even though their work for this competition was independent of their classwork, this group of students met weekly from 9月 to 2月 to prepare to compete. 

The team consisted of CM students Alex Alba, 米切尔克纳普, and Keenan Torres as well as IPD students Avery Day and Abby Mieras. 博士资助. Jared Burgoon, these students worked hard to learn what is required to build a custom home. According to Mieras, they learned how to “build the house from the ground up.” After receiving a Problem Statement in 9月, the team was given a location for this project along with a budget of one million dollars. 他们完成了一项市场分析, 施工前管理计划, 施工管理计划, 销售和营销计划, 以及财务和风险分析. 在12月中旬, the team submitted their proposals to the judges who served as hypothetical investors for this project. They then worked together to create the presentations for 2月’s competition. 

正如Mieras所说, this simulation “will be very helpful going forward” as she prepares for her future career. She and Avery Day quickly realized that they needed to work with the Construction Management members of the team to understand the entirety of their project. 感谢这次经历, an extension of the experiential learning taught in her classes, Mieras stated that she realized she had fallen “way more in love with what (she’s) studying.” 

Other College of 商业及科技 students had a similar experience this year. A group of four business students went to Lincoln, Nebraska in 2月 to compete at the Tenaska Business Challenge, a competition sponsored by one of the leading private companies in the energy industry. 这支由奥巴马赞助的球队. Travis Hollman, consisted of 克洛伊Dakan, Bethia Hamilton, Omar Sanchez, and Brett Steinke.

克洛伊Dakan, a senior business student who is majoring in marketing, states that making a fake business plan for a fleet of electrical cars for this competition “solidified what (she’s been) doing” in her classes. She stated that her team has “realized that choosing 体育菠菜大平台 was the best option for us” because they were not afraid to put to use, 在这场比赛中, the type of hands-on learning they experience in their college classes. 

正如贝西亚·汉密尔顿所说, their team’s project was “more outside-the-box than what every other university” went with. This group had a different mindset from the beginning, a team mentality that she feels will be useful to her when she enters her field of management. 

根据汉密尔顿, she walked away from this experience excited that “everything (she had) learned, (she) was able to apply” to this project. 在体育菠菜大平台信贷经验，如 Dr. Daniel Chaffin’s MGT400-企业家ship class as one of “the benefits of going to a smaller school,” she explained how she felt prepared to “participate in larger scale” experiences like this competition. 

Thanks to the experiential learning that’s the hallmark of 体育菠菜大平台, these College of 商业及科技 students were able to take what they’ve enjoyed in their small classes and compete well with students from much larger universities. 回到体育菠菜大平台的家, both teams credit what they learn on a daily basis with helping them create and share presentations that not only impressed the judges but gave everyone something to think about.