ALTOONA –The Penn State Altoona SIFE team (Students In Free Enterprise) was named first runner up in its league while competing at the SIFE USA National Exposition held May 22-24, 2012, in Kansas City, MO. The finish places them in the top forty out of 577 active teams in the country. This is the team’s best finish in its seven year history.
Competing as 1 of 160 teams at Expo, the Penn State Altoona students presented a 24-minute multi-media summary of the educational outreach projects they developed and implemented throughout the year. They were judged by a panel of distinguished business leaders on how well they created economic opportunity by educating others.