A one week program to educate juniors, seniors and teachers about the American free-enterprise system, South Carolina Business Week is in its 17 th year. Superintendent Tenenbaum will speak at 10 a.m. in Lesesne Auditorium. It provides our students with an exciting opportunity to experience hands-on all aspects of business leadership. While interacting with some of the state's influential business and governmental leaders and educators, they get a unique inside look at business in action. They develop skills that will prove helpful in whatever careers they choose.
Students attend Business Week on scholarships donated by businesses in their areas.
In addition to being in the top one-third of their class, participants must possess demonstrated leadership skills through school and community activities. The students form mock companies of 10-12 students, each led by an advisor whose company has lent him or her to the program for a week. Participants take their companies, initially on the brink of financial disaster, and make them profitable through sound management decisions. Each company also develops a strategy for marketing its product. South Carolina Business Week is coordinated and sponsored by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.