▲Competition experience
Sauder Summit Global Case Competition lasts seven days, including some preparing activities, 3–rounds case competition(including two 5-hours case and one 24–hours case.) and final night.
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1)Preparing activities
Sauder Summit prepared many activities on those days before the competition, including the snowshoeing on the Seymour Mountain and the "Burger and Beer night". These activities not only let the participants know about each, but also let everybody have enough time to adjust themselves. There was no doubt that everybody enjoyed the activities.
(2)The first round
The first round of the competition began on March 7th, with the main character–Terry Fox Foundation, a non–profit organization in Canada which fights with the cancer. The organization hoped participants to provide some suggestion, which let the organization, earn more funds and increase the awareness of the "Terry Fox Run". In this round, our team carried out some recommendations to let the organization to earn more funds from both individuals and companies.
(3)The second round
The second round began on March 8th, with the character of a local e–commerce brand––Shoes.com. The CEO of the company wanted some suggestions which could let the company earn more revenue and increase brand awareness without low down the price. In this round we recommend the company to target the Children market as well as develop the recycle shoes.
(4)The third round
After a rest day, the third round began on March 9th. Different from 5–hours case, this round is 24–hours case competition. We have the special guest–Kanaka Bar, a first nation bar located in Canada. People living this bar were hoping for the recommendations which led to 5-year healthy economic development. In this round, our team suggested the bar to focus on agriculture in short term and try to develop the light industry and tourist industry in long term. Also, we showed the idea of terrace field and Eco-economic to the judges.
(5)Final night
On the final night, all the people reviewed the whole competition together, and many schools took photos with each other after dinner.
▲Feeling
Actually it is the first competition experience for all of our teammates. And now let us use some key word to express our feelings.
(1)Appreciation
The first word, and also the most important one is "Appreciation". We received many help in this competition. The first helper is our coach, KING Sir. He has taught us a lot about the skills of case study. Secondly we want to thanks the EM and IA in the Sauder Summit, who prepare the whole competition for us. Last but not least, we want to thank all the participants, who always treat us friendly and share many interest stories with us.
(2)Happiness
The competition is happy, the fresh of meeting different company, the excitement of communicating with foreigners...and so on. What's more, the activities are also happy, such as taking part in the snowshoeing and making the pan cake with foreigners together. There are so many unforgettable experiences in this few days.
(3)Hardness
Although there are so many happy experience, but frankly most of the time are quite hard. Language barrier stops us from expressing our opinion fluently during the presentation and communication with others. Unfamiliar to the rules and policy also let us fell into embarrass and difficulties in many time.
But luckily, we become more maturity after the hardness, because we have really learnt a lot from these unique experiences which we cannot meet in the university. So we are willing to share the experiences with others in STU. And we are looking forward to seeing more and more STU students have the good score in other case competitions in the future.