IBMA Weekly Newsletter
Week of September 21 2020
fbisd f2f/online tranistion timeline
September 23: Staff members return to campus
September 28: PreK/Kinder
September 30: 1st Grade
October 2: 2nd Grade
October 5: 6th/9th Grade
October 6: 3rd Grade
October 7: 7th/10th Grade
October 8: 4th Grade
October 9: 5th/8th/11th/12th Grades
Updates
Emailing Mrs. Chadwick, Mr. Lam, or Mrs. Suarez: Please make sure to include your first name, last name, ID number, and the academy that you are in. This will make it easier for us to help you with your questions and concerns.
Volunteer Hours Update: This semester, you will need to complete 6 hours of Virtual Volunteering. Two opportunities are listed below. If you know of other Virtual Volunteering opportunities with 503C organizations, please let us know so that we can add it here.
New Volunteer Opportunities have been added to the list below.
NEW IN SCHOOLOGY!!!
Media Album Folder added to your Materials Tab: Virtual School Pictures
Since we can't be together in the classroom, I'd like to get see your wonderful faces through pictures. Upload pictures of your first day of school, your at home work station, or just some fun pictures of virtual school that you have I'd like to be able to put them in our weekly newsletters in the Media Album: Virtual School Pictures. Please provide a caption that I can I can include.
In these newsletters you will find helpful information, updates from myself, the amazing Ms. Lewis, and your IBMA president, Kelly.
Enrichment Hours: You will find links in the newsletters to enrichment opportunities for the semester. Please remember that you will need to complete two enrichments per semester for a total of 4 for the year.
As a member of IBMA you are expected to contribute to the IBMA experience beyond the classroom. The Student Executive Board cannot and should not be expected to do to all the work that allow IBMA to function -- which is why the Board has Executive Committees. By actively participating in committees you help make everything IBMA does possible and personal. Remember...Speak your mind or someone will speak for you.
Please review the available committee positions below and click on the button to sign up for a committee. Thank you!
Senior Project
Opportunity!!!
LaunchX
Announcing: Online Certificate Program
We are thrilled to announce our new program: the LaunchX Online Certificate Program - Becoming a Startup Entrepreneur.
Our online certificate program allows you to explore entrepreneurship while tapping into your potential as an ambitious high school student. We bring together a group of promising young entrepreneurs from around the globe to our online platform to take part in the course materials, meet weekly through discussion groups, and take part in webinars, all while building real products and solving business challenges in meaningful and viable ways.
Key Components and Logistics:
- Your startup - you develop the foundation of a real startup
- Course materials - robust LaunchX course materials including videos, webinars with Q&A, awesome simulations, and startup assignments
- Discussion groups - you come together with peers each week to discuss the materials plus for peer feedback
- Prize money - seed funding of $5,000 and $2,500 to the winner and runner-up startups, respectively!!
- Dates and Timing - the program is eight weeks in length with 5-8 hours per week commitment, starting October 19 and running through December 12
- Pricing - program fee is $2,495 with financial-need support available to qualifying US-based admitted students who apply by the early application deadline
- Application - early application deadline of September 14 and regular application deadline of September 28
Program Differentiators:
- The only program of its kind that is just for high school students giving you a network of like-minded innovators like you
- Strong focus on opportunity identification and market research
- Robust course platform with extensie materials and resources
- Teaching assistants who have been through the process
- Instructors who are both entrepreneurs and educators
- Seed funding of $5,000 and $2,500 awarded to the winner and runner-up startups, respectively
Note: Seed funding cannot be used for personal expenses. It must be used to develop the business cited in the final pitch. The money will be sent to business accounts only.
LaunchX gives high school students the skills and mindset to start real companies. Our program will help you to leverage your talents and tenacity to learn about entrepreneurship and start on your journey to building a viable startup. We'll train you in the innovative thinking that allows founders to create successful businesses.
Wharton Global Youth Program: 2020-2021 Investment Competition
A Message from the Booster Club
Good Afternoon, IBMA Parents,
Attached please find the IBMA Booster Club Membership form for the 2020-2021 school year. As mentioned during the commitment night the booster club is an essential part of assisting with many of the social programs that IBMA hosts throughout the school year. Please join to show your support of the programs.
Also, the booster club has all of their positions open for this upcoming school year. Anyone interested, please contact the booster club, (ibmaboosterclub@gmail.com ) email copied. No experience is needed just a willingness to support the students in the academy. Each position term is for one academic year.
Enrichment Events
Mayor's Youth Advisory Council
The City of Sugar Land is now accepting applications for our Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council for the 2020-2021 class.
To apply, students must:
- Be incoming high school junior
- Residents of Sugar Land city limits or ETJ
- Complete online application here
Applications close September 22 at 11:59pm. For more details and instructions visit the MYAC website.
Please share this information with your eligible students!
For any questions, please contact us at myac@sugarlandtx.gov.
IBMA Enrichment: Emily Nguyen, Past Texas DECA Vice President of Leadership
Emily Nguyen will be speaking on behalf of her college experience (applying to college, extracurriculars), how she chose to major in business, and how she is pursuing a career in business currently as a college student. She was the Texas DECA Vice President of Leadership Development from 2017-2018 and is now a private equity intern at EnCap Investments L.P. She currently attends the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business where she is studying finance. Password is found on your Schoology page and/or calendar
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2020, 04:00 PM
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IBMA Enrichment: Austin Foss, Loan Officer for Mutual of Omaha Mortgage
Austin Foss received a Bachelors in Communication from the Dallas Baptist University in hopes of becoming a national Sports Broadcaster. He worked for ESPN as a statistical analyst and production assistant for a few years. However, he eventually grew more interested in banking and financing. Currently, Mr. Foss is a loan officer for Mutual of Omaha Mortgage. In his session, he will give insight on changing his career decisions and what excites him most about what he does.
Password is in Schoology
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020, 04:30 PM
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IBMA Enrichment: Mr. Major Jones, Texas Workforce Commission
IBMA is pleased to welcome Mr. Major Jones from the Texas Workforce Commission to lead us in virtual career exploration.
Mr. Jones is one of five members of the Education Outreach team of The Texas Workforce Commission. He and his team help students make better informed career decisions, through Labor Market and Career Information tools and resources, empowering students to understand and apply this information to their future plans. Join IBMA and Mr. Jones as we collectively explore our individual potential career paths!
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020, 04:00 PM
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IBMA Enrichment Event: Channing Fawcett, CEO
"Channing Fawcett, Consultant and CEO at Stratecute, a successful marketing consulting firm speaks on her experience founding her own company and the tips she has to success." She has been a past keynote speaker for DECA and has a masters in Hotel and Restaurant Management and an MBA from the University of Houston. Password is in Schoology
Thursday, Nov 5, 2020, 04:00 PM
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TED Talks
TED Talks Business Topics
Virtual Volunteering Opportunities
Color a Smile
Details
Organization: Color a smile, a Non-profit organization, 501 (C) (3). Founded in 1986.
Students take printouts from the website, color them and mail it to Color A Smile foundation. Before mailing, Mrs. Chadwick or Mr. Lam needs to approve the hours based on the coloring sheets worked by the students and track it for GSA. The below link explains steps required for tracking volunteer credits. 3 Sheets equals 1 hours of volunteering.
Instructions for the volunteer work and credits
Archive Historical Documents
Virtual Tutoring
Sessions are delivered via laptops and even phones and are all recorded to ensure quality and safety."
Zooniverse
Fort Bend Regional Council
Here is an opportunity to earn service hours. Help an area nonprofit and promote positivity in your community by creating media content (videos, memes, interviews, or discussions) that promotes having fun, making good choices and being drug free.
Contact Leigh Haynes at 281-207-2426 or lhaynes@fortbendcouncil.org or
Instagram - @fbrc_squad
Updating Contact Information in Skyward
Schoology Join Codes
Class of 2021- WFGVN-4QMRH
Class of 2022 - RBG7V-FJWTP
Class of 2023 - X3V6V-6NCMT
Class of 2024 - VPCG-5CD4-B3BRN
Remind Codes
@ibmaco2021 – C/O 2021
@ibmaco2022 – C/O 2022
@ibmaco2023 – C/O 2023
@ibmaco2024 - C/O 2024
International Business and Marketing Academy
Location: 11111 Harlem Road, Richmond, TX, USA