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Virtual Enterprises (VE) is an international network of
student-run businesses that sell virtual products for virtual money.
At Wings Academy, BAM, or Bronx Art Movement, is a VE company that
sells urban art clothing. BAM�s presentation for a start-up bank
loan won 3rd place out of 60 New York schools.
Virtual Enterprises allows students to experience, in a simulated
business environment, all facets of being an employee in a firm,
including research and marketing, commerce, trading, human resource
development and administration. The program provides students with
an interdisciplinary applied learning and in-school work experience
that develops school-to-career skills. The program is based on the
European concept of practice firms, in which students run simulated
offices in their schools and engage in virtual trading with other
practice firms. Through hand-on applications and tangible results,
the VE program improves students' skills in problem solving, written
and verbal communications, and conveys the expectations of the workplace.
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