Need a bike? Looking for new insurance? Hiring an ad agency? You could find all that and more at the Nov. 6 Virtual Enterprise networking event and trade fair at Long Island City’s Academy of Finance and Enterprise. Organized by seniors in the school’s entrepreneurship program, the event brought together nine student-run virtual “firms” from six schools across the city — about 90 students in all — who pitched their businesses to each other and to roughly 90 other Academy of Finance and Enterprise students armed with virtual “checks” to make purchases. Now in its fifth year, the event is part of a yearlong curriculum in which the seniors design their own firms, including corporate and salary structures, marketing strategies, print materials and websites. Firms even have bank accounts, as do their individual “employees,” and must pay taxes. “It mimics the real world,” explained Janina Morones, one of the school’s two Virtual Enterprise coordinators. The Virtual Enterprise project also serves as a capstone for the seniors, she said. “This project allows them to take all of the theories and material they’ve learned and actually put it into practice.” Michael Viviano, the other Virtual Enterprise coordinator, said the students did all the legwork to prepare for the event under the teachers’ guidance. “They did the decorations and the invitations; they came up with icebreakers and made sure that all the other firms felt welcomed.” Chapter Leader Jessica Herrera said that when she visits the students at their booths, “they’re so convincing that they make you think they’re actually selling the product.” UFT Vice President for Career and Technical Education Sterling Roberson, who attended the event, said, “The teachers at Academy of Finance and Enterprise are educating our next generation of business leaders.”