{"id":76239,"date":"2022-01-26T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=76239"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:52:28","slug":"goodman-students-bring-home-record-medal-haul-from-virtual-case-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/01\/goodman-students-bring-home-record-medal-haul-from-virtual-case-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodman students bring home record medal haul from virtual case competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competing in a virtual environment didn\u2019t stop one of the Goodman School of Business\u2019 largest competition teams from bringing home a record 26 medals at the recent DECA U National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The DECA Collegiate Competition, held virtually Jan. 14 to 17, brought together top business students to compete in a fast-paced case competition. The competition tested students\u2019 analytical and communication skills in several business categories that mimic real-life situations they may face in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The Goodman team was led by co-presidents Manpreet Sandhu and Jessica Foster, who along with their executive team, spent months helping the delegates prepare for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team did tremendously well at the national competition,\u201d said Sandhu. \u201cSeeing them perform with confidence, creativity and professionalism amongst seasoned competitors was truly mesmerizing. I could not have fathomed how successful our chapter was going to be this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Goodman team was comprised mainly of first- and second-year students and first-time delegates, which made the strong results even more surprising for the club executives and bodes well for the club\u2019s future, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have such a young delegate chapter this year, with very few experienced delegates,\u201d Sandhu said. \u201cThe tremendous amount of determination, enthusiasm and engagement they showed was more important than any medal count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team thanked Student Leadership Co-ordinator Lauren Smith for her support and Employer Development Manager Venessa Magny for expanding the delegate experience with several workshops with potential employers.<\/p>\n<p>The following teams received medals for their final award standing in their categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Second place in Debate: Sehaj Deol, Hamza Raja and Griffen Mason<\/li>\n<li>Third place in International Business: Alexandra Schonewille and Catilin Gratton<\/li>\n<li>Third place in Sports Entertainment Marketing: Jeff Dai and Curtis Rines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following students received medals for placing in the Top 5 of their individual categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accounting: Neil Ahuja (Case 1 and Case 2), first place overall; Sehaj Deol (Case 2)<\/li>\n<li>Corporate Finance: Lily Jayakaran (Case 1 and Case 2); Vansh Patel Case 1)<\/li>\n<li>Human Resource Management: Lam Tran (Case 2), second place overall; Emma Kairys (Case 1 and Case 2), third place overall<\/li>\n<li>Management Consulting: Mitchell Chan (Case 1 and Case 2), first place overall<\/li>\n<li>Restaurant Food Service Management: Jessica Foster (Case 2)<\/li>\n<li>Travel Management: Manpreet Sandhu (Case 1 and Case 2), first place overall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competing in a virtual environment didn\u2019t stop one of the Goodman School of Business\u2019 largest competition teams from bringing home a record 26 medals at the recent DECA U National Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":76240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,1,4],"tags":[159,9959,7464,2852,594,11136,9648,910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239"}],"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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76241,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239\/revisions\/76241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}