Electronic Career Portfolio

There will now be a performance portion of this event for the top 12 finalists from the prejudged portion of this event. 

Entrepreneurship/Network Design 

The performance portion will be structured as and interactive/ role play performance with no question and answer session.

Entrepreneurship/Management Decision Making/Marketing

Only the top 12 teams statewide will advance from RLC to SLC. 

Marketing

This is now a team event of 2-3 members instead of an individual event.

You want to open your own independent sports memorabilia retail store called Sports Zone where you can sell spirit clothing and merchandise for local teams as well as for college teams and professional sports.  You also live within 75 miles of three NCAA colleges with active athletic programs and a city with NFL, NBA, and MLB franchises.  While the bulk of your merchandise will be centered on the teams in your area, you also want to have merchandise for many other college and professional teams. The local schools also would like you to stock spirit items for their local sports teams.  You also want to be the supplier of uniforms for local recreation leagues.  You would like to open your retail store in your local shopping mall which is looking to fill a vacancy for a 6,500 square foot store.  You will need to purchase all the inventory of your licensed clothing and merchandise and will need to have an area to fulfill orders for the local school and recreation teams.

Create a presentation on the dangers of texting and driving to present to the senior class. This presentation will be given before the prom and graduation activities.

Develop an entertaining simulation/game that will incorporate training or skill development for financial literacy. Genre and format of game is open to imagination and innovation of the design team. Quiz show, RPG, shopping, and more are all acceptable. Gear the game to high school students.  

You will develop a full promotional package for the Lancaster Youth Center (or you may substitute a local youth center in your community), a local youth association. This is a safe place that provides an alcohol, tobacco, and drug free environment for youth to gather, to be themselves, and to find their voice in the community. The association provides after-school activities for youth in grades 6-12. 

You should have a primary logo design and six supporting designs that show how the logo would be incorporated in the following: (1) a long horizontal format, (2) a long vertical format, (3) a full page advertisement, (4) a small version of the logo to go on clothing merchandise, (5) a black and white logo, and (6) a three-color logo that could be used for three-color printing.