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Super Troopers
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CIS Seniors Compete
in Virtual Team Challenge
Three teams from the Greenville Computer Information Systems program
recently competed in a virtual team challenge sponsored by
Deloitte. The challenge is a real-time, multi-user business
simulation that is played over the course of several weeks by high
school students throughout North America. The students face
business tasks and challenges that simulate the real-world experiences
of professional services employees like the people with careers at
Deloitte. The challenge revolves around an oil spill in a virtual
world. The students must interact with the avatars in the virtual
world to aid in the relief efforts of a city to recover from the
disaster. Based on the interactions with the avatars and research
in the virtual library and newspapers, they must make sound business
decisions on hiring companies. Each student is assigned one of
four rolls on the team.
The rolls are:
Fast Tracker: Responsible for Support Services including decisions
about hiring emergency services and logistics vendors to make sure the
cleanup runs smoothly.
Smooth Operator: Responsible for Media and Volunteer Management
including decisions about a hiring public relations firm and a
spokesperson for the cleanup so that support-donations from the public
adequately fund the cleanup.
Grime Stopper: Responsible for the physical aspects of the
environmental cleanup including hiring oil spill containment, recovery
and disposal vendors. If the cleanup is environmentally effective, New
City will be saved and the team will receive the most support-donations
from the public.
Green Machine: Responsible for crisis administration including hiring
vendors to write the disaster assessment document and handle legal and
compliance issues.
There were over 600 teams in the national competition.
Team Super Troopers (Allen Burden, Danielle Liebherr, Max Muir, and
Matthew Oiler) raised $181,500.00 virtual dollars for the relief
effort, placing 16th in North America. This is the highest place
Greenville has received in the yearly contest which started in 2008.
Team FiddlerMiddler (Maleigha Day, Sierra Forte, Dalton Jones, and
Joseph Miller) raised $168,080.00 virtual dollars for the relief
effort, placing 40th in North America.
Team ARIHCC (Darin Gusek, James Hardy, and Blake Peters) raised
$166,973.00 virtual dollars for the relief effort, placing 44th in
North America.
The CIS program at Greenville High School is taught by Nathan Sharp and
Robert Warner. For more information about the CIS program at
Greenville High School, contact Jon McGreevey, CT Director at (937)
548-4188 extension 847.
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