Saskatchewan High School Business Case Competition

1. Saskatchewan High School Business Case Competition March 1 & 2, 2012

2. Event Goals • Increase high school student participation in Business Education courses across the province. • Student interest and engagement in business education can be enhanced through this exciting extra-curricular event. • Showcase elite student’s business knowledge in an advanced learning environment. • The event will provide students the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with other students and educators from across the province. • Increase teacher membership in the SBTA, specifically from municipalities other than Regina. • Great opportunity to draw in participating business educators into the SBTA through the event. Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

3. Proposed Event Schedule Workshop Case Competition

4. Case Competition • Case competitions challenge students to think critically and creatively about a real-life business case. Participating students will gain a level of confidence and professionalism that differs from any classroom assignment or activity. • Students are put into teams of 3, hopefully with people they have worked with before (classmates) • Ideally students have some case experience prior to attending the event. EBUS 300 could potentially put together a pre-event package for students and teachers to follow prior to attendance. Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

5. Case Competition Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

6. Motivation • http://youtu.be/HCzA4IBMOFI • Amazing experience, each year I returned motivated and inspired • Both educational and social • I think we can start a small version of this in the high school setting in Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

7. Workshop • Students may be lacking case break down skills and even some basic business management education. • The Workshop is an excellent opportunity to use this event as a learning experience for students. Perhaps case judges could give a brief presentation to the students on a specific subject (whether it be entrepreneurship, accounting, personal finance, business management or other). • Further, the pre-interns could use some of this time to teach basic case breakdown and/or presentation skills. Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

8. Best Practice • Richard Ivey School of Business has been running a similar event for high school students for the past 4-5 years • Student organized and operated event • Extremely successful, part of the school recruitment process • Can leverage some of their experience and business cases for our event Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

9. Fit with eBus 300 Challenge – Most of our planning time for this event will occur in the winter semester. However, most of the necessary planning will need to happen before January. Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

10. Buy In • The only way this will fly is if we all buy in and put in the necessary effort. We have a chance to make a difference by successfully organizing this event. • Going to take some planning and effort to make this successful. • What is in it for you? • Grow the program, gain student interest, increase demand for these classes, which in turn will open up more jobs for Business Education teachers. • Great resume builder. Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

11. Roles Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

12. Marketing and Promotion • Develop and distribute pre-event marketing material • Why participate? • As a teacher, what is my role? • Targeted students for this event • Contact high school BEd teachers and/or principles to gain support and attendance (10 schools, 3 students per school, 1 teacher) • Develop and distribute registration forms (both student and teacher) • Assemble the competition booklet (bios, schedule, sponsor advertisements, case analysis framework, etc.) • Create signage and promotional material for students (t-shirts, awards, photography, etc.) • Point of contact for participating schools Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

13. Curriculum Incorporation and Logistics • Finalize schedule • Securing and organizing the location, rooms, transportation, meals, chaperoning, night event, opening and closing ceremonies, etc. • Develop material for teachers to use to prep their students on case deconstruction (one or two lesson plans) • Case selection (for event and pre-event) • “How To” deconstruct cases presentation preparation • Manage day-of activities and flow Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

14. Sponsorship and Judges • Develop necessary budget for event • Develop and distribute sponsorship package (why sponsor this event?) • Locate sponsors by working with SBTA leadership, raise necessary funding • Locate and select 3-5 case judges (preferably from sponsors, but may be supplemented with local business professionals, teachers or professors) • Writing bios on judges • Debrief judges on responsibilities • Develop evaluation criteria for judges • Point of contact for judges and sponsors Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

15. Questions & Comments Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association

16. Next steps • Meet with your committee • Identify committee “chair” • Accountable for completing all necessary activities • Communicate with other “chairs”, Joel and Cyril as necessary • Develop activity list, timeline and identify who is accountable for each activity (see hand out) Saskatchewan Business Teachers’ Association