Flagler Enactus travels to World Cup

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Flagler College’s National Champion Enactus team is traveling to Cancun, Mexico, to compete against 36 teams from around the world in the Enactus World Cup.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (09/26/2013)(readMedia)-- Flagler College's National Champion Enactus team is traveling to Cancun, Mexico, to compete against 36 teams from around the world in the Enactus World Cup.

The World Cup competition, which begins Sept. 30, brings together an international network of students, academic and business leaders to showcase how students used entrepreneurial action to create opportunity in their community.

"We're very excited about the competition," said Donna Delorenzo, co-advisor of Flagler College Enactus. "It's a pretty incredible privilege to represent the entire country, as we are the only American college competing. It's putting Flagler on an international stage, and it's wonderful exposure for our students."

Enactus teams present the impact of their programs in front of a panel of judges made up of business executives from top international corporations.

Flagler won the U.S. National Enactus competition in May - the third time the team has been crowned national champions.

One of the highlights of their presentation was the Passport Pretzels project, a hybrid job-training program for St. Augustine's homeless shelter, St. Francis House. Passport Pretzels is a business where shelter residents make pretzels and learn culinary skills that will get them certification in the food service industry.

Enactus also partnered with the St. Johns Juvenile Correctional Facility to create a cable certification program providing the opportunity for the youths to be certified in copper, telecommunications and fiber optic cabling. These new skill sets can help participants land a job that pays $15 to $50 an hour.

Enactus is an international nonprofit organization active on more than 1,500 university campuses in 39 countries. Enactus teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that focus on market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial skills and business ethics.

To follow the competition, go to http://enactus.org/worldcup

To read more about Flagler Enactus' National Championship, go to http://flaglermagazine.com

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.