Exciting News From the Lawrence Kinlin School of Business - ChallengeFuture Competition

Students in the graduate Marketing Management program, under the mentorship of their Professor, Rhonda Payne, have partnered over the past six months with a team from the University of Glamorgan, in Wales, to compete in the world ChallengeFuture Business Competition.

Left to right: Mary Pierce (Chair, Lawrence Kinlin School of Business), with ChallengeFuture team members Jeff Palmer, Eryk Gabriel and Professor Rhonda Payne

Over 1,600 students from 951 business schools representing 134 countries competed in the first round. Eighty-nine teams moved on to round two. It was announced on Friday, March 12, 2010, that nine teams in three competition categories have been selected to compete in the world finals in Bled, Slovenia from May 14 to 18. Top team prize is 20,000 EUR.

The Fanshawe/Glamorgan team has been selected as world finalists and will be competing in the "New Media" competition category against the University of Singapore and University of Bucharest teams in Slovenia.

There is an opportunity to vote online and the team would appreciate your participation and support. Visit www.challengefuture.org to register and get more information.

Congratulations to everyone involved.

ChallengeFuture is an international not for profit organization promoting youth creativity and innovation. They are a division of CEEMAN, the Central and East European Management Development Association.