Congratulations to our JPII DECA members who competed last week at the South Carolina DECA Convention in North Charleston.

Students complete the 100-question written test at JPII ahead of the State Conference. At the conference students competed in a role play - where they take on a management role in their genre to solve a situation in an innovative way using 21st century skills. Some students qualified for the second round of role plays. These included: 

Michael Fitzgibbons and Lily Garrick both in Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series; Trenton LaFountain: Principles of Finance; Ryan Bertagna: Sports and Entertainment Marketing Series; Aadi Patel and Daniel Snyder in Marketing Team Decision Making; Finley Borgan and Leo Iskandar: Hospitality Services Team Decision Making; Blake Hubik and Alan Wolf along with Keira Doran and Aanya Patel both teams in: Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making; and Megan Fox: Automotive Services Marketing Series.

At the awards banquet, the following JPII students were honored for their top 10 finishes:

• Lily Kate Garrick - 10^th place in AAM: Apparel and Accessories Marketing Series 
• Isabella Perez - 4^th place in BFS: Business Finance Series Event
• Aanya Patel and Keira Doran - 6th place in ETDM: Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making
• Trice McClure  - 9^th place in FMS: Food Marketing Series
• Leo Iskandar and Finley Borgan - 5^th place in HTDM: Hospitality Services Team Decision Making
• Aadi Patel and Daniel Snyder - 7^th place in MTDM: Marketing Team Decision Making 
• Ryan Bertagna - 4^th place in SEM: Sports and Entertainment Marketing Series

A big congratulations to Michael Fitzgibbons who finished in 2nd place in the state for Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series! This qualifies him to compete again at the International Career Development Conference (ICDC). Michael Fitzgibbons is the third student in our 5-year DECA history to qualify for DECA's ICDC.