Eagle Passan Janelle Garza Mentors High School Students Through Project Growth
SAN MARCOS, Texas – On April 27th 2015, Janelle Garza, Historian of Project Growth/Enactus, Project Growth, a legacy project since 2000, has mentored the students of Garza High School in Austin, Texas. This project has created new ways to uphold the three principals of SIFE/ Enactus: people, profit, and planet.
For the past 15 years, Texas State ENACTUS has been working with Garza High School’s dual-credit Business/Horticulture program doing some unforgettable work. From the Garza Gardens project, which taught students basic business practices on how to develop and market a small business; to showing them how to be environmentally friendly while increasing profits within Project Growth.
Enactus is a global, non-profit organization that is literally changing the world through highly dedicated student teams on more than 1700 university campuses in 36 countries. Enactus offers these students the opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise, thereby improving the standard of living for millions in the process.
Texas State Enactus is one of the leading collegiate teams within the United States. Enactus has been helping others achieve their dreams through free enterprise education for more than 25 years. Today, Enactus is the world’s prominent and largest university-based free enterprise organization.
If you would like to learn more about Enactus please visit the Enactus website, http://www.business.txstate.edu/`/ , or contact Sam Walton Fellow, Vicki West at vw03@txstate.edu or 512-245-3224, Enactus President, Seth Bleiler at sb1533@txstate.edu or 713-504-5026, or Janelle Garza at j_g277@txstate.edu or (830)968-5029.
