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Posted: Sunday, 20 July 2008 7:48AM

High School Students Attend Commerce Business Camp

by KYW’s Pat Loeb

A group of high school juniors from around the Delaware Valley have chosen to spend two weeks of their summer learning how to be business professionals at Commerce Bank's "Camp Business".
 
Good bye flip flops and shorts; hello wing tips and neck ties. The 50 students are learning product development, decision-making and entrepreneurial skills. It's the fifth year of business camp at Commerce University -- the bank's corporate training center in Mt. Laurel. A Commerce spokesman says the bank wants to interest kids in business. Rebecca Acevedo says they try to make it fun, too, with an outward bound type experience the first day:

“They actually climb obstacle courses and have to swing from a tree -- climb those rope ladders.”
 
Acevedo says business professionals actually do those things, though not necessarily in the office. It's called team building. The ten-day camp wraps up this Thursday.

 
 
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