Summer Youth Program

On July 31, the USF School of Business and Associate Dean Carlos Baradello hosted Russian delegates participating in the Summer Youth Program (SYP), a U.S.-based international project administered by the non-profit Center for Citizen Initiatives. The program is designed to provide vital business management and leadership skills to Russian youth, who are on their way to becoming entrepreneurs. The delegates - students of business administration, marketing, economics, and international relations - learned about how U.S. businesses are started, organized and managed, so they could take home new ideas and become effective entrepreneurs and managers themselves.

Image (Left): Evgeny Grishakov points out his home town on a Russian map to USF MBA students and Associate Dean Carlos Baradello. Grishakov is 18 years old and is in his second year of management studies at the Novosibirsk State University in the Siberia region. Grishakov traveled to the U.S. as a part of the CCI's Summer Youth Program because he wants to own a business in the future.