{"id":41617,"date":"2016-06-22T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=41617"},"modified":"2016-06-22T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:30:42","slug":"business-driven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/06\/22\/business-driven\/","title":{"rendered":"Business driven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school juniors and seniors learned what it\u2019s like to work in the field of business during a residential camp hosted by Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/business.wright.edu\/\">Raj Soin College of Business<\/a> (RSCOB).<\/p>\n<p>The five-day camp provides an experiential learning environment that helps students explore their interests in business.<\/p>\n<p>Students learn skills in economics, accounting, marketing, finance, management, information systems management and entrepreneurship. Students also participate in campus activities and network with students from other schools across the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shows you how to live life on your own, and I think that\u2019s accentual for kids my age,\u201d said Talaya Robinson-Dancy, a senior at Ponitz Career Technology Center.<\/p>\n<p>Students work closely with the RSCOB faculty, staff, students and local business executives. \u201cThey get a taste of what it\u2019s like to be a business leader,\u201d Jonah Sandler, CEO of Scene 75, this year&#8217;s host company.<\/p>\n<p>Students are divided into teams with a business student-coach and work on real-world business challenges. Each team has a different business problem to solve.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the camp, local business professionals judge team presentations and solutions. Members of the winning team each receive a $500 scholarship to RSCOB.<\/p>\n<p>WesBanco, Synchrony Financial, Ohio Small Business Development Centers, Day of Caring 365, Merrill Lynch and Scene 75 sponsored the camp.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/wright.edu\/pbi\">wright.edu\/pbi<\/a> or contact Lisa Cooper at 937-775-2731 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lisa.cooper@wright.edu\">lisa.cooper@wright.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school juniors and seniors learned what it\u2019s like to work in the field of business during a residential camp hosted by Wright State\u2019s Raj Soin College of Business. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/06\/22\/business-driven\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":41619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,748,725,727,715,2120,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-business","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-pre-college-camps","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41623,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41617\/revisions\/41623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}