College of Business Administration

GROUP MEMBERS:

Matt Risley
Veronica Guy
Chris Nelson

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

We began our social change project on October 11th. We decided to tutor and help Hoover High School students working in a program called Virtual Enterprise. Virtual Enterprise is a program that allows students to earn credit towards high school while learning about the business world in a fictitious setting. Students break up into the various departments that are found in an actual organization and work together toward a common goal.

Through the program, students gain experience with internet use, and many helpful business skills. Students learn to put on professional presentations and work with marketing, management, and accounting ideals. Students in the program also get a little bit of an edge on their fellow peers due to the fact that they are participating in an extracurricular program. Students are also more prepared for college after having taken this course.

By volunteering our time we feel we contributed to the students in many ways. We feel we were able to assist them by sharing our business expertise with them. We also feel that we served as positive role models for them. We hope that perhaps they will want to model themselves after us and consider pursuing a college degree. By being in the class with the students we feel we served as real life motivators for their success.

Our cost benefit analysis for this project was rather simple. The cost to us was calculated by taking our hourly wages and multiplying it by the time we spent on this project. The average hourly wage between the three of us was approximately fifteen dollars. The total cost to us totaled nine hundred and forty five dollars. We also factored in the amount of money we spent on gas for the seven weeks of driving we did to Hoover High. We estimated this amount to be twenty five dollars, so our total cost for this project was nine hundred and seventy dollars.

To determine the benefit that the students will get from this project we based it on the hopes that they will continue their education and get a four year degree. The average worker in San Diego with a high school degree earns about 20,000 a year. The average college graduate with a business degree earns about 33,000 in San Diego.

Overall, this was a very rewarding experience for us. We feel we made an impact on the lives of these students by motivating them to pursue a degree in business. If nothing else, we served as positive role models and provided our knowledge that we have learned in college.