SMJK Katholik students bagged all four awards in the annual American Malaysian Young Enterprise Programme.
KUALA LUMPUR: Catholic High School of Petaling Jaya swept the board at the annual American Malaysian Young Enterprise Programme recently.
They won four awards -- Best Enterprise, Best Annual Report, Best Use of ICT and Best Product.
The award ceremony was held recently at the American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce in Kuala Lumpur, and officiated by US Ambassador to Malaysia, James Keith and Amcham executive director Valerie Lyn-McDonough.
The programme, sponsored by the Citi Foundation, is aimed at helping secondary school students to learn about business and becoming entrepreneurs.
Students form a mini "company" at school and learn to translate economic theories into real business. They experience the complete business cycle, from capitalisation to voluntary liquidation.
This is the sixth year Citi has sponsored the programme with a grant made available by the Citi Foundation.
Shian Goh, who led the CitiBusiness volunteers as mentor for the 30 students from Catholic High School said "the programme provides an ideal platform for students to develop an entrepreneurial edge and build their critical thinking skills".
Azlin Nordin, another volunteer from CitiBusiness, said the students were committed to the programme as they could see the benefits of gaining experience and knowledge.
"They experienced a real taste of how to run and manage a business, how to resolve all the challenges they encountered, which they would not learn from textbooks," said Azlin.
(adapted from http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/Streets/Wednesday/Stories/2422370/Article/index_html)
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