YOSEMITE is the name of the Management and Economic Simulation Exercise team I am part of, together with Alexandru Mag, a good high school colleague of mine.


from left to right: Alexandru Mag, Mircea Bardac

The name of the team comes from Yosemite Sam*, the hunter with a red beard in the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Why him? Well.. we were very fond of some expressions/characters in High School. Yosemite Sam was one of them… ;)

Short Team History

  • 9th grade: team name: BARMAGIRI (only BARMAGIR was allowed - 8 letters restriction) composed of the first 3 letters of the team components’ surnames (yes, we were 3 only in the 9th grade)
  • 10th grade: team name: SINERGIA (”Synergy” in English) - “Sinergia faptelor” & “Meandrele concretului” were great expressions back then. We wanted to use FALFAL (comming from “fal fal” - sounds made by birds when flying) but it didn’t feel right. We decided the best solution for the team was to have only 2 members: Mircea Bardac & Alexandru Mag
  • 11th grade: YOSEMITE got born - we used this name ever since

Our participation in the MESE contests include:

  1. 2000 - national
  2. 2001 - national
  3. 2002 - national; 1st, 2nd & 3rd International Rounds of Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge
  4. 2004 - national; 1st & 2nd International Rounds ofHewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge
  5. 2005 - 1st & 2nd Rounds of Hewlett-Packard European Challenge; Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge.