A prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the most entrepreneurial SacramentoState staff member or student through the Competitive Award.

This award, called the McCarthy-Potter Paradigm Entrepreneurial Award,is funded by Sac State alumni Margaret McCarthy and Michael Potter, whoare both international business pioneers.

“Their reason for providing the award is to make visible the people whoboth dream and analyze risks well,” said Joseph Sheley, the dean ofSocial Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (SISS). This is the firstyear that the SISS Department is offering the award.

To be considered for the award, an application must be presented inperson to 255 Amador Hall by 5 p.m. on April 2.

Students must be enrolled at Sac State with a minimum of 12 units andalso be in good academic standing to apply for the award. The contest isopen to all majors.

Faculty members from any of the colleges at Sac State are welcome tocompete. However, they must be full-time and currently teaching thisyear.

The award will be based on an evaluation of an applicant?s descriptionof their entrepreneurial activity within the past two years. Thisdescription should be written in no more than three pages.

A campus committee will look over the applications and choose threedescriptions that they deem the most impressive. They will theninterview the three finalists. On the basis of the interview, thecommittee will make a recommendation to Sheley. The award will bepresented in April.

The committee will utilize Webster?s definition of “entrepreneur” whenjudging the applications: Entrepreneur: 1. The organizer of an economicventure, esp. one who organizes, owns, manages, and assumes the risks ofbusiness. 2. One who organizes, promotes, or manages an enterprise oractivity of any kind (e.g. “promoter”). 3. One who serves as anintermediary (e.g. “middleman,” “go-between”).

“The winner will be the person whose entrepreneurial project impressesthe committee members most,” Sheley said. “They?ll know it when they seeit.”