The USI Accounting Circle sponsored the High School Business Day Case and Scholarship Challenge, held on the USI campus November 3, 2023. More than 100 high school students competed for cash (and bragging rights) as the top business case team and for scholarships to Romain College of Business.
High schools represented included Evansville North, Gibson Southern, NE Dubois, Evansville Harrison, Evansville Central, Henderson County, North Posey and Eastern Greene.
In addition to the competitions, the high school students, parents, teachers, and counselors interacted with business student organizations and attended a student panel featuring four business majors as well as an informational session with USI Admissions. Students toured campus and the Romain College of Business labs housed in the Business and Engineering Center. It’s the interaction with USI students, faculty and professionals, many of whom are USI alumni, that is invaluable for these guests and their parents and teachers. It’s an opportunity for them to learn more about business careers, internship opportunities, and how Romain College of Business can co-create with them a path to achieve their career goals.
Case Competition results
The day featured a case competition where student teams were given a challenging real-world business problem. They presented their solutions to a panel of judges made up of faculty, USI students and accounting professionals. Because of the volume of teams competing, judging was split by random drawing into two divisions. First place teams split $750 between members and earn $250 for their high school.
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1st-Gibson Southern High School
Zoey Maikranz and Jaedyn North
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1st-North High School
Kailyn Keding and James Mercer
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2nd-Central High School
Maekyn Grigsby, Olivia Talley and Daisy Titzer
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2nd-North High School
Abigail Green, Inna Popov and Emily Schmidt
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3rd-Harrison High School
Thomas Anderson, Konstantin Averkin and Shaqh Singh
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3rd-NE Dubois High School
Adam Buechler, Aiden Elliott, Asher O'Bryan and Trey Wiseman
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Scholarships to Romain College of Business results
Students had an opportunity to take a multiple-choice examination to test their knowledge of business terminology and concepts. Congratulations to Jenna Stewart, Landon Chandley, and Evan Sturgill, all from Henderson County High School, for earning scholarships to Romain College of Business.
