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Youth Business Competition

The Youth Business Competition (January 19th 2007) is a project designed to offer Hawaii high school students the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and business and help them gain an appreciation for the potential they have to make a difference with it.  Through hands on, mentored experience, they will have the chance to learn about conceiving, developing, and starting a business, the role of revenue and cash flow, and here from some great businessmen and entrepreneurs.

 

The following registration and competition materials are available (PDF format) -

Registration Information

Competition Agenda

Competition Rules

 

To find our campus, the address is 55-220 Kulanui Street, Laie, HI  96762  or for your convenience, <HERE> it is google mapped already.
 
If you are interested in participating in the YBC, Please contact Amy Nichols - SIFE Project Leader @ Amy.Nichols@genmills.com for more information.

 

Six Sigma Projects

Through our Six Sigma Program 108 students have completed an impressive 96 projects so far,  We’ve improved 18 University Departments and 4 local businesses. 

Local businesses included the Polynesian Cultural Center, DaKine Wireless, North Shore Surf School, and Gunstock Ranch. Also with his Six Sigma training, one student in Hong Kong has started his own IT consulting business and another student in Mongolia is currently teaching Six Sigma to small and medium enterprises. 

We’ve applied Six Sigma in our BYUH Copy Center, reducing inventory by 80% , increasing sales XX%.  Another  project helped our Housing Department save $80,000 just by changing the showerheads from a 2 gallon to a 1.5 gallon capacity.

Another example of how we applied Lean Six Sigma was in our campus eatery, the Seasider.   From our customer survey we devoted our time in providing much needed training in customer service and the Five S philosophy.  We’ve reduced their inventory, increased communication, and dramatically reduced waste.  

We trained 33 of their employees, impacting 7,400 people and saved the Seasider $50,000 over the cost they currently pay a consultant.  Service hours performed were 480 on this project alone. 

 

 

9th Annual Business Plan Competition and Entrepreneurship Conference

The Conference provided valuable networking skills for students and helped them start their business ventures.BYU-Hawaii SIFE prepared three workshops for business plan entrants.  Topics included “How to Start a Business,”  “How to Finance a Business,” and “How to Market a Business.” We had 60 students participate in the workshop where 30 business plans were submitted, of which 14 focused on starting businesses in developing countries which included Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, and Mongolia, just to name a few.

We also invited 71 entrepreneurs with expeience all around the world to judge the business plans and share their expertise in 20 panel sessions. Topics included "Import/Export," "How to Make Money Manufacturing a Product," and "e-Business."

BYU-Hawaii SIFE organized all the sessions of the Conference.  As a result of our service we’ve impacted 585 students,  approximately 25% of the student body, as well as 71 entrepreneurs.  We’ve completed 440 service hours.  With media coverage we had 46,656 gross impressions.