McNeese Student wins Business Pitch Competition
(Jun
e 1, 2015) Lance Sefcik, a management major from Georgetown, Texas, at McNeese State University, has won the college division of the 3rd annual SEED Center Business Pitch Competition at McNeese.The SEED Center Business Pitch Competition offers entrepreneurs from high school, college, general business and technology divisions the chance to compete for a start-up award, office space and other resources to help their business plans evolve into successful career opportunities.
Sefcik’s winning business enterprise, Bayou Rentals, LLC, is a property venture that includes purchasing homes in Lake Charles and surrounding areas. After renovations and updates to the homes are completed by Sefcik’s company, the company’s next step is to rent out the properties at affordable prices for small families and McNeese students. His business plan integrates investment opportunities with the promising demand for real estate in Southwest Louisiana.
As the college division winner, Sefcik was awarded $2,500 in start-up money from the Angels of Southwest Louisiana. He also has the option of six months free rent and office space at the SEED Center and access to resources to help his business grow and succeed.
Other McNeese finalists in the college division included: Jesse Morton, Houston, Texas, and Hunter Romero, Lafayette; and Anna Salvador, Clear Lake, Texas.
Morton, an accounting major, and Romero, a mass communication major, presented their business plan for HR Media, a multiplatform media production company, while Salvador, an agricultural sciences major with a concentration in nutrition and food science, introduced a plan that combined the fields of nutrition and genetics in nutrition counseling - Nutrigenetics in Private Practice: The Next Generation of Health.
(June 25, 2015) For almost 60 years, the McNeese State University Summer Reading Clinic has offered the Lake Area a program to help children become better readers through the department of education professions.
nic runs in conjunction with the course and enables McNeese students to obtain practicum experience. The reading diagnostic skills studied and executed during this program not only benefit the students enrolled, but also the tutors working the camp.
(July 28, 2015) This fall, McNeese State University will offer a new Bachelor of Science degree in health systems management designed in collaboration with Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.
(September 3, 2015) The McNeese State University Department of Performing Arts will present Lin He, violin, and Lina Morita, piano, in a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, in Tritico Theatre.
Pianist Morita, an associate professor of music at McNeese, made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013. Her music career has taken her throughout the United States, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and the Czech Republic.
Clark, an assistant professor of piano at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, is an active performer and concerto soloist and has played with the Lamar Civic Orchestra, South Carolina State Wind Ensemble and the Ars Nova Chamber and Washington Sinfonietta orchestras in Washington, D.C.
(Pictured left) Filmmaker and folklorist John Sharp stands outside of the Richard Sale Barn in Abbeville. This old cattle auction barn is now a venue for blues, Cajun and zydeco music and is an example of one of the many dancehalls throughout the state that he will lecture about Sept. 21 for the McNeese State University SAGE series. 
e Charles is directing the play as part of her senior capstone project, which requires all theater students to mount a production. This is the first student-written and student-directed senior capstone production at McNeese.
(October 2, 2015) McNeese State University art professor Gerry Wubben will have a solo exhibit opening Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Art Associates Gallery on the second floor of the Central School Arts and Humanities Center in Lake Charles. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m.