Welcome to the California Network of Virtual Enterprise

The California Network of Virtual Enterprise will be hosting the first of four scheduled New Coordinator Training Institutes for the 2008-09 school year on April 28-29, 2008 at the Agriculture Pavilion on the Regional Occupational Center’s campus in Bakersfield, CA.  The second Training Institute will be held on June 16-17, 2008 in Bakersfield at the same location.  On June 23-24, 2008 the Virtual Enterprise Central Office will host the third training for new coordinators in the far northern California regions and Oregon at Phoenix High School in Phoenix, Oregon.  The last scheduled training will take place on August 11-12, 2008 at the CA Virtual Enterprise Central Office in Bakersfield on the Regional Occupational Center’s campus.  There may be one more training late in August for newly hired Virtual Enterprise coordinators; however, this training does not have a scheduled date as of yet.  The registration forms and location information for these trainings are found in the Information section of our website menu.

Congratulations go to The Source of Bakersfield High School for receiving 2nd place in the National Business Plan Competition held in New York on April 2-3, 2008.  First place went to Universal Promotions of New York and third place went to The Printing Depot of New York.  There were no 4th, 5th, or 6th place designations in this competition, but the other 2 California (Metropolitan Real Estate & Universal Connections) and the remaining New York teams (VE Management) were considered finalists.  The 5 teams that represented the California Network in this competition were The Golffather, Metropolitan Real Estate, The Source, Universal Connections, & Blue Sky Travel. Seventeen total teams presented their business plans in two rounds on April 2nd.  Six of the 17 were final teams that presented on April 3rd. 

A total of 14 California companies were present at the New York International Trade Fair.  Other United States companies represented were from New York, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC. There were also 10 different countries represented. 

Updated recipients of the various task seals which can be placed on the company business license once points have been earned can be found in the Information section of the website menu. These seals are Red, Blue, Bronze, Silver, and Gold.  Currently, there are now 48 Red Seal recipients, 28 Blue Seal recipients, 6 Bronze Seal recipients, and 2 Silver Seal recipients. Congratulations to all of these companies!

Nancy Phillips
California Network State Coordinator
Virtual Enterprises International