BATAVIA/Ace Virtual Business Trade Fair at GCC gives students a hands on experience

Ten companies from 9 different schools participated in the ACE Virtual Business Trade Fair today at GCC.

The program, in it’s 15th year, allows students to run a virtual company so they are learning how to develop a product line, do sales, marketing and payroll.

“They do everything for the company,” says Debbie Dunlevy, Career Pathways Project Director at GCC.

“It really is a student driven program as opposed to the teacher teaching. The teacher facilitates.”

The student’s companies have a CEO, CFO and accountants.

“Your success or failure is a lot of whether the students are motivated to work.”

“Its great to see students come together and work as a team.”

Teams were judged based on the dollar amount of sales they have taken in, number of transactions, their booth presentation, their marketing campaign and strategy and their salesmanship.

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Schools that participated and their Company name:

Batavia/ Relaxation Corporation

Byron-Bergen/ Survival Surplus

Dansville/ Trendline Designs

LeRoy/ Wide Awake Cafe

Livonia/ Delicious Deliveries

Notre Dame/ Cruisin’ Cuisine

Pavilion/ Spectrum

Pavilion/ Tailgatorz

Wayland-Cohocton/ iSnack

WNY Tech Academy/ Ameriware

 

The final results of award winners are as follows:

Booth:

School/ Company

1) Batavia/ Relaxation Corporation

2 Notre Dame/ Cruisin’ Cuisine

3 Livonia/ Delicious Deliveries

 

Salesmanship

1) LeRoy/ Wide Awake Cafe

2) Notre Dame/ Cruisin’ Cuisine

3) Pavilion/ Spectrum

 

Marketing Strategies

1) Batavia/ Relaxation Corporation

2) Dansville/ Trendline Designs

3) LeRoy/ Wide Awake Café

 

Total # of Transactions

1) Dansville/ Trendline Designs 160

2) LeRoy/ Wide Awake Café 131

3) WNY Tech Academy/ Ameriware 130

 

Total $ Amount of Sales

1) Dansville/ Trendline Designs $193,588.00

2) Notre Dame/ Cruisin’ Cuisine $173,500.00

3) Batavia Relaxation/ Corporation $149,200.00

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