One hundred international students come to Illinois Institute of Technology to participate in the Marmon Group 2002 Global Trade Institute (MGGTI)
More than 100 top Junior Achievement International students from A to Z (Albania to Zimbabwe) are participating in The Marmon Group 2002 Global Trade Institute (MGGTI 2002) on Illinois Institute of Technology’s Main Campus, now through June 25.
MGGTI is an intensive seven-day program designed to provide a dynamic environment for outstanding young entrepreneurial students to learn about the complexities of global trade. The program is aimed at developing character, teamwork skills and confidence, as the students train and work in learning teams while living on the IIT campus. It is expected that they will be inspired to convert ideas into action, as they develop lifelong contacts and friendships among tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and leaders from many cultures.
“As our mission at IIT is to educate people from around the world for professional roles, we are pleased to collaborate with The Marmon Group of companies and with Junior Achievement International in hosting this conference,” says Lew Collens, IIT president.
The Marmon Group 2002 Global Trade Institute (MGGTI) is sponsored by a grant from members of The Marmon Group companies. The Marmon Group is an international association autonomous manufacturing and service companies with collective sales of more than $6.8 billion. Member companies employ 40,000 people in 50 countries.
Under the Marmon Group grant, every JAI member nation may send one high-achieving student who is 16 to 20 years old, fluent in English and with entrepreneurial aspirations, to the MGGTI.
Themes for the seven days include: leading a high-impact team, networking for success, industry day, global markets, corporate identity, business technology and achieving success. Workshops are taught by faculty from Illinois Institute of Technology, as well as leaders from the Chicago business community and the Marmon Group. Activities include competitions for speeches on ethics and business plans and visits to area-based businesses.
“Often students leave school with academic knowledge of their professions, but later realize that the majority of careers require knowledge of how to start, operate and manage a business,” says David Loose, vice president of Junior Achievement International. “This Institute experience will provide coaching and training to help start these students on a successful professional path.”
MGGTI is administered by Junior Achievement International, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that serves and supports Junior Achievement and Young Enterprise programs around the world. Junior Achievement programs promote entrepreneurism and economic self-determination while giving young people the skills they need to play an active role in today’s global economy.
Closing ceremonies will take place on June 25th. The speaker for the closing ceremony will be Leon Lederman, Pritzker professor of physics at IIT. Professor Lederman shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger) for the 1962 discovery that there are two kinds of neutrino, one associated with the electron and another with the muon.
While here, students will also get a chance to visit Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, Sears Tower, Marshall Fields Department Store, and Navy Pier. They will also enjoy a dinner/dance cruise on Lake Michigan.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.
