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So, What is Let's Get Real? A National Academic Competition
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Mission Statement Let's Get Real™ seeks to provide all students with opportunities to reach their full potentials through innovative and creative educational activities. In working to establish non-traditional, "out of the box" opportunities we are addressing student transition from the four walls of the classroom to the realities of corporate America. In addition, we are putting corporate America in touch with an untapped resource for solving problems with which they are faced. Let's Get Real™ is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. |
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Let's Get Real™
is a competition and an opportunity for teams of students to gain experience
working on real business problems. Corporate co-sponsors supply real problems
for which teams submit solutions in business format. Each team chooses
from the list of problems the one it finds most interesting. Problems might
include areas such as environmental issues, manufacturing, distribution,
engineering, software creation, human resources, health and safety, facilities
design, public relations, or any other areas deemed important to the corporations
involved.
The essence of high level learning is providing young people with the opportunity to apply their interests, experiences, and accumulated knowledge to real world situations. It is through such application that truly advanced growth takes place. The Let's Get Real program is a perfect example of situations where direct involvement with challenging problems has produced remarkable growth in problem solving skills, creativity, cooperativeness, and the kinds of motivation necessary for success in all walks of life.
-- Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli
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