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Economic Fuel is open to teams of one to five persons. As detailed below, each team must include at least one student or recent graduate. A “student or recent graduate” includes anyone within one of the following categories: |
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Current students - a person who (throughout the Economic Fuel competition) has earned credits in classes worth at least twelve units in total during the 2008/2009 academic school year (Fall 2008 semester, Winter 2009 session and Spring 2009 semester) at College of the Redwoods, Humboldt State University, or an accredited online university.
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| b.) | Graduate students/PhD candidates completing their coursework and working on their thesis/doctoral project - a person who is close to completing or has completed their coursework and is actively working on their thesis/doctoral project. Graduate students will be required to verify that they are progressing on their thesis/doctoral work. Verification must be in the form of a letter from the student's faculty advisor confirming their student status and that the student is making adequate progress on their thesis/doctoral project. |
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recent graduates who reside locally - a person who received an Associate Degree or a higher degree from College of the Redwoods, Humboldt State University or any college or university in the United States at any time since December 1, 2006, AND who has maintained his or her primary residence in Humboldt County since September 1, 2008. |
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2. |
Students from any department, discipline, major or minor are eligible to participate. Economic Fuel is not restricted to business students. |
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| 3. | All non-cash prize-winning teams that submitted a business plan in a prior year Economic Fuel competition, and finalist teams from a prior year Economic Fuel competition who received the $1,000 Honorable Mention, are eligible to participate in Economic Fuel 2009; given that all team members comply with the official rules and eligibility criteria for Economic Fuel 2009. |
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| 4. | Teams can have a minimum of one member, and a maximum of five. Teams with multiple members may include one or two individuals who are not students or recent graduates, depending on the size of the team, as specified in the chart below: |
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| team | Number
of Team Members |
Student
Members/Recent Graduate Members |
Non-Student
Members/Non-Graduate Members |
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| 5 |
5 |
0 |
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4 |
1 |
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| 3 |
2 |
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4 |
4 |
0 |
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1 |
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3 |
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2 |
2 |
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3 |
3 |
0 |
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2 |
1 |
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2 |
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2 |
0 |
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| 1 |
1 |
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1 |
1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5. | Team members can only participate on one team. Each team may submit only one business plan. |
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