Over the course of February 27th-March 1st, 104 RHS DECA students attended the NJ DECA State conference.  Here students presented their 20 page papers or 10 page papers and competed in impromptu role play scenarios.  In the majority of the events, students competed in a preliminary round and had to be the best of their flight to move onto the final round of competition. In finals students completed a new impromptu scenario or presented their papers again.  The final rankings determined who moved onto the next round.  Top 6 in the paper categories and top 7 in the role play categories are now eligible to attend and compete in the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida from Friday, April 21st - Wednesday, April 26th.  In addition to the overall results, students are eligible to receive a mini award for being in the top 3 in their event on their category test or being the top in their preliminary flight on their role play/presentation.  There are no mini awards for events without exams (20 page papers and the two entrepreneurship 10 page papers: Start-up Business Plan and Innovation Plan). 

Accounting Application Series Event (Role Play)

Margaret Zhou

Exam Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

1st Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Danielle Molloy

Role Play 1 Mini Award Winner

Role Play 2 Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

6th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Aaron Perlman

Role Play 1 Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series (Role Play)

Grace Freeborn

Exam Mini Award Winner

Business Law and Ethics Team Decision Making (Role Play)

Olivia Kim & Emma Mohanram

Role Play Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

6th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Business Services Operations Research (20 Page Paper)

Christopher Fiol & Danielle Molloy

Event Finalist

4th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Buying and Merchandising Management Team Decision Making (Role Play)

Olivia Olson & Juliette Sklyar

Event Finalist

5th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Entrepreneurship - Business Growth Plan (20 Page Paper)

Hannah Lopez & Cameron McPherson 

Event Finalist

2nd Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Entrepreneurship - Franchise Business Plan (20 Page Paper)

Carys Gallo & Navya Gupta

Event Finalist

Move Up - (ICDC Qualifier)

Entrepreneurship- Independent Business Plan (20 Page Paper)

Ella Parlak & Fernanda Uribe

Event Finalist

Cameron McDonough & Saachi Patil

Event Finalist

1st Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Entrepreneurship Series (Role Play)

Dennis (DJ) Murphy

Exam Mini Award Winner

Entrepreneurship - Start Up Business Plan (10 Page Paper)

Sumantra Basu

Event Finalist

Finance Operations Research Event (20 Page Paper)

Dan Shechter

Event Finalist

3rd Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Saachi Agarwal & Aashi Jesalpura

Event Finalist

6th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Financial Services Team Decision Making (Role Play)

Cameron McDonough & Saachi Patil

Role Play Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

6th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Integrated Marketing Campaign - Event (10 Page Paper)

Karan Kalyanaraman & Krish Tulsidas

Presentation Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

Marketing Communications Series Event (Role Play)

Connor Gelshenen

Role Play 2 Mini Award Winner

Event Finalist

Move Up (ICDC Qualifier)

Project Management Business Solutions Project (20 Page Paper)

Alisha Dave & Shree Patel

Event Finalist

5th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Project Management Career Development Project (20 Page Paper)

Emma Mohanram, Emily Schmitt, & Caitlyn Wall

Event Finalist

1st Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Project Management Career Awareness Project (20 Page Paper)

Carina D’Angelo, Shriya Dani, & Lauren Shin

Event Finalist

2nd Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Project Management Community Giving Project (20 Page Paper)

Georgina Stoehr & Reina Trivedi

Event Finalist

Project Management Financial Literacy Project (20 Page Paper)

Alex Guemeryly

Event Finalist

4th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Liliana Kaschenbach & Shea Letscher

Event Finalist

5th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Project Management Sales Project (20 Page Paper)

Alexander Fiol & Tate Cunningham

Event Finalist

3rd Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Sports & Entertainment Marketing Management Team Event (Role Play)

Liliana Kaschenbach & Shea Letscher

Role Play Mini Award Winner

Sports & Entertainment Marketing Operations Research Paper (20 Page Paper)

Erin Langa & Astrid (Kelly) Smith

Event Finalist

4th Place Overall (ICDC Qualifier)

Travel & Tourism Marketing Management Team Event (Role Play)

Carson Kopff

Exam Mini Award Winner

Thank you to our chaperones (Ardese, Bray, Garlosco, McDermott, Mende, Stucke, and Watson) for their assistance starting with checking bags
on Friday after school, watching the students and providing feedback before they competed, working through their snow day, setting up food,
cleaning up food, and of course keeping our students safe while on the trip.

RHS DECA advisors are Karen Mendez & Paul Cronk

Tim Murtha advises the RHS Maroon Mart, run by RHS DECA, and oversees fundraising efforts of RHS DECA

The RHS Green Club presented an exhibit on the hydroponics system it has been using to grow herbs and plants indoors during the winter with minimal soil. Students gave an information system and presented tours of the setup to attendees. Special shout-out to Courtney Bernhardt and Eilat Kissil for making the presentation materials! Learn how you can make your own hydroponics system by visiting the Green Club website! 

RHS InvenTeam, Applied Engineering Club, and Chemistry Honors students participated in the 36th Super Science Saturday on March 4th. The exhibits included the award winning inventions of the Solar Aqua Tech water Bottle, ICE cooling blanket, WildFire Assessor along with the 2023 NJSTEAM Tank Regional presentations: Methane Defusing Chempost; Car Exhaust Heat/Carbon Capture XFiler; AI Plastic Sorter AutoTrach; Hydro Plastic Decontamination Aqua-Bin; Sound Electricity and Gamawatch App for health. The display also included: Blackberry Solar Cells (almost edible!); one of a kind 3D Periodic Table; entertaining Power Grid Park; and solar WaCy that turns salt water into fresh! ; a 3D printed carbon allotropes matching game; and playdough piano. The RHS exhibit spread the joy of invention and celebrated learning science.