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A team of 44 students in Foothill High School’s entrepreneur program, DECA, recently earned dozens of awards at a local business and career development competition.
The high-schoolers collectively brought home 147 awards from the DECA Northern California Career Development Conference, held Jan. 13-15 in San Ramon. It was the program’s best performance to date.
Students earned nine first-place awards, 10 second-place awards and seven third-place awards in the annual event that tested their practical and theoretical skills in management, hospitality, marketing and other business subjects. The 850 participants from schools throughout the region had to give on-the-spot presentations, take exams and present prepared written projects at the conference.
“NorCal was a great learning experience for me,” Foothill student Amira Nayyar said in a statement. “I learned a variety of skills in marketing and business in general through training and competition, and am looking forward to the state competition later this year.”
Six Foothill award winners placed in the top three in both their events — Benjamin Chen, Courtney Hartjoy, Saachi Keswani, Raymond Peng, Praveen Ravisankar and David Xu.
Foothill DECA is now preparing for the State Career Development Conference in March.