| Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is the | | | | where corporate financial theory and principles, |
| nation’s premier summer internship program | | | | which both inform and guide capital budgeting, |
| for talented students of color. Since its inception, | | | | capital structure and dividend decisions are taught. |
| SEO’s Career Program has placed over 5,000 | | | | To address these challenges SEO has created a |
| Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Native American | | | | pre-internship, ten-week training period during |
| students in internships that lead to opportunities in | | | | which potential interns complete twelve to |
| exciting and rewarding careers in the most | | | | fourteen Zoologic courses. SEO has introduced |
| competitive industries in the world. | | | | potential interns not only to Zoologic courses, but |
| The SEO faces many challenges that are specific | | | | also to ZooFIRST, Zoologic’s just-in-time |
| to its mission. One challenge to mission completion | | | | financial reference tool. Further, Pre-course |
| is enhancing the financial acumen of SEO interns | | | | assessment results are analyzed to identify |
| for improved productivity and competency prior | | | | training curriculum of potential interns. Zoologic |
| to the beginning of a summer internship program | | | | courses are incorporated into its SEO-U, created |
| on Wall Street. Other challenges include providing a | | | | to help first and second year, college students |
| cost effective means to educate SEO students | | | | become successful applicants to the SEO Career |
| around the globe over a short period of time and | | | | Program. The Zoologic program has also been |
| quantifying the progress and performance of SEO | | | | expanded to include both its European and Hong |
| students as they prepare for their internship. Just | | | | Kong programs. |
| one example is the Corporate Finance course | | | | |