The Center for Economics and Personal Finance Education (CEPFE) at New Mexico State is organizing a one-day student forum and competition on the topic of Globalization. Teachers are requested to form as many as two student teams per school with up to five students per team. Student teams from local area high schools will compete against each other as well as against student teams from Parral, Chihuahua.

Local area high school teams will be paired with undergraduate teams in the International Business Program at NMSU, and teams from high schools in Parral with undergraduate teams in the International Economics Program at the Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua-Parral. Undergraduate teams will provide technical assistance on research in globalization, use of multi-media technology, and public speaking.

Competition will be based upon quality of research, preparation, and oral delivery of a multi-media presentation. Teams will select a topic from a list of topics on globalization compiled by CEPFE staff. Multi-media presentations are to be limited to: power point presentations, podcasts with both audio and visual inserts, and CD, or a combination of any of the three. Sponsoring teachers are requested to submit to Luis Saenz at lfsaenz@nmsu.edu no later than April 10, 2009.

For information on content of the forum and competition, please contact Benjamin Matta at bmatta@nmsu.edu. Upon receipt and participation approval by the CEPFE, sponsoring teachers will be contacted regarding provision of technical assistance. Sponsoring teachers must submit such information by no later than April 10th, 2009.

Teachers and student teams must be available to compete on April 24 2009 at the NMSU campus starting at 8:30 A.M. and ending at about 3:00 P.M.