{"id":16053,"date":"2024-02-29T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2024-03-08T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:29:12","slug":"elementor-16053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/elementor-16053\/","title":{"rendered":"ILF Student, Angelica Lanfranconi, wins 2nd Prize in FELC&#8217;S Speech Contest, August, 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16053\" class=\"elementor elementor-16053\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cca0278 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cca0278\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b886e34\" data-id=\"b886e34\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8d17c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a8d17c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>By Angelica Lanfranconi<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16055 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-1161x1536.jpg 1161w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-1547x2048.jpg 1547w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-18x24.jpg 18w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-27x36.jpg 27w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-36x48.jpg 36w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2.-Feb-Angelica-headshot-scaled.jpg 1934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/>During the week of July 31 to August 4, I attended the Free Enterprise Leadership Conference. This experience was entirely virtual, which allowed me to participate all the way from Italy. I learned so much during this conference, both through guest speakers and through hands-on activities. During the conference, the students were split up into teams 6-10 people, with each group having a counselor to guide us through the activities. Each team created a company from scratch, going from electing a board of directors, to creating a business plan, to presenting our products to \u201cinvestors\u201d (the staff of the company). FELC not only taught me about what it really takes to build a business, but also about how to be an effective leader, how to work in a team, and about how the free enterprise system can reduce poverty. The conference was so much fun, and it was a great opportunity for me to see if business and economics could be one of my career aspirations, as I didn\u2019t have much prior experience. The week was very well balanced between hands-on activities, student presentations, and professional guest speakers. One thing that I especially appreciated was that each student was able to play to their strengths, with some members of the team giving speeches, others in charge of debates, and others preparing visual presentations. Thank you to ILF for providing me with such an amazing growth opportunity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Angelica Lanfranconi During the week of July 31 to August 4, I attended the Free Enterprise Leadership Conference. 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