Back Row: Craig Silvernagel, Bret Rinke, Garth Wiedrich, Molly Maurer, Kurt Rassmussen, Kevan Mattson, Andy Geisen, Andrew Pieschel, Kate Glawe, Talaine Goldberg, Patrick Schultz

Front Row: Matt Maurer, Shannon Pearson, Molly Ongaro, Jen Kasperson, Jae Baker, Angie Winders, Dan Waind

Grant Marquardt, Ryan Thayer, Joey Tiegs

History:

In the spring of 2003 the University of North Dakota (UND) Entrepreneur Club was invited to compete at the Arizona State University Duel in the Desert. After the experience in Tucson, the UND Entrepreneur Club converted to UND-SIFE. By the spring of 2005, UND-SIFE has a growing membership, a nine member Business Advisory Board (BAB) and an exciting list of annual projects.

Individual Teams:

SIFE Teams are organized on individual college and university campuses. There are intentionally very few rules or procedures established by SIFE World Headquarters for how these teams are organized and structured. The number of faculty advisors allowed, students eligible for participation, and frequency of team meetings, are all left to the discretion of the individual SIFE Team to answer. There are many ways to organize and operate a SIFE Team. Every college or university campus is as unique as the community it serves. This flexibility allows each school to structure its SIFE Team in a manner that best fits its faculty, student and community needs. Each SIFE Team has complete freedom to put in place rules and procedures to govern its own activities, so long as they are consistent with the SIFE Membership Guidelines.

This same flexibility applies to each team's educational efforts. The only parameters SIFE World Headquarters places on a team's educational outreach programs is that they should be designed to educate others about at least one of the four SIFE educational topics: Market Economics, Entrepreneurship, Personal Financial Success Skills and Business Ethics. Beyond this, questions as to how many projects teams choose to do, which audiences they target, whether they design original educational material or use pre-designed material, etc., are all left to the discretion of each team.