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The Daily OrangeStudents beat out 4 teams at biz contest
By Lia Calabro
Posted: 11/29/07, 12:21 AM EST Section: News
Four information-technology students were reminded on Nov. 16 that intelligent humor travels a long way - all the way from Syracuse University to Hartford, Conn., where the team of iSchool students won first place in the 2007 Travelers Information Technology Case Competition.
The students, nominated by iSchool faculty, won after presenting an interactive lecture on knowledge transfer and management to a panel of experts.
Each team had five hours to prepare the presentation, 15 minutes to present it to a panel of Travelers executive judges and 10 minutes to answer the judges' questions. The students' presentation outlined a plan that would help Travelers, one of the largest property and casualty insurance providers in the United States, to develop a way to efficiently transfer information as employees are recycled.
Seniors Josh Frost and Grant Haggan, and sophomores Brendan Tindall and Jamie Greene represented SU's School of Information Studies in the competition. Travelers invited four other schools with strong information management programs to compete, including the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.
"iSchool made us win," said Frost, a triple major in information management and technology, Spanish and history. "This was just like any other class. We have done presentations like this before, and we knew what we were doing. Anyone in the iSchool could have done what we did. "
The students particularly acknowledged professor Susan Bonzi's class, IST 444: Information Reporting and Presentation for teaching them to develop a well-packaged delivery.
"I am so stunned when I think about how well our students did," said Professor Dave Dischiave, who accompanied the team to Connecticut with his wife and fellow iSchool faculty member, Susan Dischiave. "As we were leaving the competition, a Travelers' representative came up to me and said, 'I've been coming to these presentations for years, and this is the best one I have ever seen.'"
The students, nominated by iSchool faculty, won after presenting an interactive lecture on knowledge transfer and management to a panel of experts.
Each team had five hours to prepare the presentation, 15 minutes to present it to a panel of Travelers executive judges and 10 minutes to answer the judges' questions. The students' presentation outlined a plan that would help Travelers, one of the largest property and casualty insurance providers in the United States, to develop a way to efficiently transfer information as employees are recycled.
Seniors Josh Frost and Grant Haggan, and sophomores Brendan Tindall and Jamie Greene represented SU's School of Information Studies in the competition. Travelers invited four other schools with strong information management programs to compete, including the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.
"iSchool made us win," said Frost, a triple major in information management and technology, Spanish and history. "This was just like any other class. We have done presentations like this before, and we knew what we were doing. Anyone in the iSchool could have done what we did. "
The students particularly acknowledged professor Susan Bonzi's class, IST 444: Information Reporting and Presentation for teaching them to develop a well-packaged delivery.
"I am so stunned when I think about how well our students did," said Professor Dave Dischiave, who accompanied the team to Connecticut with his wife and fellow iSchool faculty member, Susan Dischiave. "As we were leaving the competition, a Travelers' representative came up to me and said, 'I've been coming to these presentations for years, and this is the best one I have ever seen.'"
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