June 06, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Trine University team was one of five advancing to the finals this week in the 2024 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition, emerging from a second round of 11 teams.
The Trine team is comprised of Katie Haase, a management major from Napoleon, Ohio; Evan Selby, a sport management major from Granger, Indiana; Jackson Clark, an accounting major from Fort Mill, South Carolina; and Beau Binnie, a finance major from Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
“Katie, Evan, Beau and Jackson are great students. We’re all very proud of the success they have enjoyed and excited that they have advanced to the finals,” said Linda Conley, faculty advisor. “This is the second year in a row a Trine team has advanced to the top five in this competition, thanks to the dedication and talent of our students and the support of our sponsor. We especially want to thank our sponsor, Joe Urbanski, president of Farmers State Bank, for all his assistance.”
This is the tenth year of the competition, which is open to undergraduate students in all fields of study as an opportunity to gain valuable first-hand knowledge of the banking industry.
This year, the teams partnered with local community banks to determine lessons learned from the Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank closures, identify the banks’ expectations for regulatory and supervisory changes, and evaluate how the banks are using social media.
Trine’s team partnered with Farmers State Bank, headquartered in LaGrange, Indiana.
A total of 27 student teams representing 21 colleges and universities entered the competition this year. In addition to Trine, the finalists were Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, Southeastern Louisiana University, The University of Illinois-Springfield and University of Southern Mississippi.
The top three teams will be announced on June 25.
Each student member and faculty advisor of the first-place winning team will receive a $1,000 scholarship and present their findings at the Community Banking Research Conference in St. Louis in early October. Their work will be published in the annual CSBS Journal of Community Bank Case Studies. The second and third ranked teams also will receive scholarships and have their works published in the journal.
To learn more, visit www.csbs.org/bankcasestudy.
Top: A Trine University team made up of, from left, Katie Haase, a management major from Napoleon, Ohio; Evan Selby, a sport management major from Granger, Indiana; Jackson Clark, an accounting major from Fort Mill, South Carolina; and Beau Binnie, a finance major from Stouffville, Ontario, Canada, has advanced to the final round of the 2024 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition.
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Taking the baton from last year’s team, five Trine University mechanical engineering seniors renewed their partnership with Dexter Axle’s Albion, Indiana, facility to complete a custom-built pallet squeezer—an industrial machine designed to realign heavy stacks of manufacturing pallets.