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MIMIC PRODUCTS FOR SALE AT FAIR APRIL 25, 2007

Four student companies at Illinois Valley Community College will be selling products they designed and manufactured on Wed. April 25 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the main lobby of the campus.

The products will be sold at a fair organized as part of the Making Industry Meaningful In College or MIMIC project. MIMIC, a nationally recognized curriculum program, places students in engineering design, electronics and business into teams to design, manufacture, market and sell a product. The teams, called companies, simulate an industrial company structure, allowing the students to experience a workplace environment in a classroom setting.

The products that will be for sale are:

A wall-mounted fish tank by Hang It
A decorative globe lamp by Star Light
A desktop MP3 speaker system by Jam’n Inc.
A desktop organizer by Desktop Accessories & More

The theme for the fair, which is organized by the business students in the project, is From Our Space to Your Space.

"It’s great to watch students actually apply the skills that they have learned in the classroom," said accounting professor Susan Koepke, one of the supervisors of the project. The other supervisors are Dorene Perez, program coordinator of computer aided engineering, and Jim Gibson, program coordinator of electronics. Classes involved in MIMIC are Integrated Business Systems (BUS 2260), Engineering Design Projects (CAD 2208), and Motors & Controls II (ELE 1203).

MIMIC began in 1995 as a Tech Prep sponsored project. It is partially funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

  April 2007