{"id":13983,"date":"2011-12-02T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2011-11-29T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:33:38","slug":"business-students-compete-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/12\/business-students-compete-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Business students compete in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Brock Business students received high honours recently at the annual DECA U (Developing Excellence Celebrating Achievement) conference in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Four Brock delegates attended the three-day conference at the Collegiate Leadership Academy. More than 300 delegates from across the U.S. and Canada competed in industry-specific cases. Brock delegates competed in two of the five industry cases.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Gurr, a fourth-year Business Administration student, took home second place in the fashion merchandising and marketing category. Mithulan Perinpanayagam, a second-year accounting student, was awarded first place in the international business and finance category.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, which focuses on professional development, was hosted by Collegiate DECA, the international governing body of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">DECA Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conference was Nov. 17 to 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Brock Business students received high honours recently at the annual DECA U conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[154,3327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}