A team of three TCU business students was named 2006 Operation Stimulus National Champions, winning a national supply chain case competition in February sponsored by the Denver Transportation Club.

The team, sponsored by the Neeley School of Business’s Supply and Value Chain Center, included Jeff DeArment, Trey Davis and Carsten Frederikson. The competition asks teams to tackle real-life issues in the transportation and logistics industries. The competition is judged by logistics firms such as Ryder Integrated Logistics and JB Hunt and by companies like IBM and Cintas that depend on logistics services.

TCU’s Neeley Students In Free Enterprise team won first place and a prize of $2,000 at the Rumble by the River consulting case competition last fall at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. Team members were: Nagesh Hatti, Isela Rodriguez, and Xi Zhu, with research support provided by Baronda Bradley, Lindsay Cook, Josue Lopez, Marta Mogollon and Emily Tate.

The Neeley Entrepreneurship Program handed out $10,000 in scholarships to six students at this year’s Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. The $5,000 top award went to Jeff Livney, a senior at The Woodlands High School, for his student-run graphic consulting firm Piko Zoom.

Recipients of the $1,000 scholarships were: Lucas Butler, Palmer High School senior; Craig Gagne, Judson High School senior; Austin Hoffman, All Saints Episcopal School senior; Charlie Neff, Grandview High School junior; and Andrew Spiziri, Highland Park High School senior.