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BHS Car Show Excites Local Community
By: Ian Johnson

Topics: car show, recycling, Virtual Enterprise, Bakersfield High School, fun, bakersfield
Anonymous user Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:59:05 PDT
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        The “Rolling through the Ages” classic car show will be held this Saturday September 13th from 9am-3pm on the BHS campus in Elm Grove. The SOURCE, Bakersfield High School’s Virtual Enterprise (VE) Company, will host this car show costing $35 per car/truck entry. The entry fee includes two lunch tickets. This event is free to the public. This car show awards first, second and third place trophies within each decade, allows the contestants to chose the Best in Show Award and has the BHS Principal, David Reese, present the Principal’s Choice Award.

           The SOURCE has teamed up with Bakersfield Association for Retarded Citizens (BARC) to collect E-Waste during the car show in the BHS staff parking lot. The students will collect any old or unused electronics such as desktop computers, laptops, monitors, televisions, cell phones, telephones, printers, copiers, and fax machines. Any item collected is significant considering only two percent of all electronics in the United States is recycled.

These two giant family events will entertain with fun, food and music including a live performance by the BHS choir and the presentation of the flag by the junior ROTC program.  Contestants and spectators can enter raffles to win many great prizes which will directly benefit The SOURCE students.
            
                Student employees in The SOURCE organize and operate a virtual retail store that sells video games, consoles, iPhones, iPods, TVs and home entertainment systems and is modeled after the local Best Buy, one of its real world business partners.  The company belongs to the Virtual Enterprise of California network that includes 200 high schools which is a part of a larger national network of 500 high schools and a worldwide network of over 3000 schools. The VE program simulates the real world business model while satisfying elective and economic requirements. 
Last year as a start-up company, The SOURCE, won second place in the National Business Plan Competition in New York and finished third place in the world for the best web design. The VE class writes business plans, establishes financing, writes employee handbooks, hires staff, markets the business, creates web sites, and participates in regional and national competitions and trade fairs.
The goal this year is to raise $80,000 so all 33 students in The SOURCE Company can travel and compete in trade fairs in Long Beach, Oakland, Charleston (SC), and New York.  The students significantly contribute their time to reach this goal through their food community service with the Petroleum Shriners, four BARC community E-waste recycling drives, on-campus BJ’s Restaurant pizza food sales, spirit bead sales, collecting private sponsorships and donations, real video game tournaments, the 1st Annual VE Golf Tournament at Seven Oaks, and the 1st Annual “Rolling Through the Ages” car show.
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