{"id":9649,"date":"2011-04-27T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2011-04-27T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:52:53","slug":"business-students-shine-at-international-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/04\/business-students-shine-at-international-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Business students shine at international competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9655\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9655\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9655 \" title=\"Nick Chrzan and Shehar Khan \" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/icdcfla13.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Chrzan and Shehar Khan \" width=\"550\" height=\"284\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Chrzan and Shehar Khan <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ten Brock Business students competed at an international conference against 238 schools this month.<\/p>\n<p>The students traveled to Orlando, Fla. from April 12 to 17 to compete in the 50th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deca.org\/events\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collegiate DECA International Career Development Conference<\/a>. The four-day event involved business simulations and case studies.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock team was comprised of Mihika Chag, Nick Chrzan, Erin Gurr, Mike Holmes, Shehar Khan, Max Marchuk, Aanchal Narula, Jaminy Ulaganathan, Mike Weston and Jeremy Wolfe.<\/p>\n<p>Students competed in a preliminary round, where the highest scoring individuals moved onto a final round of competition.<\/p>\n<p>The following came home with medals:<\/p>\n<p>Nick Chrzan and Shehar Khan &#8211; Top 10 finalist for International Marketing; third place team overall<br \/>\nErin Gurr &#8211; Top five Written Exam score, and Top 10 finalist for Fashion Merchandising Marketing; second place overall<br \/>\nMike Holmes &#8211; Top 10 finalist in Marketing Management<br \/>\nMax Marchuk &#8211; Top 10 finalist in Financial Services<br \/>\nAanchal Narula &#8211; Top five Written Exam score, and top 10 finalist for Hospitality Marketing<br \/>\nJaminy Ulaganathan &#8211; Top 10 finalist in Travel and Tourism Marketing<br \/>\nMike Weston &#8211; Top five Oral Presentation score, and top 10 finalist in Financial Services<\/p>\n<p>Brock was one of three universities comprising Team Ontario. This year represents the highest medal total in the four years that Brock has been at the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Collegiate DECA ICDC was an incredible experience for all participants,\u201d said Chrzan, Brock\u2019s chapter president. \u201cWe brought with us an incredible team that performed exceptionally well, while also expanding their networks with the best and brightest students from across North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9656\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9656\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9656  \" title=\"Jeremy Wolfe  Mihika Chag Nick Chrzan Shehar Khan  Mike Holmes  Erin Gurr  Max Marchuk  Mike Weston  Aanchal Narula  Jaminy Ulaganathan   \" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/icdcfla12.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Wolfe  Mihika Chag Nick Chrzan Shehar Khan  Mike Holmes  Erin Gurr  Max Marchuk  Mike Weston  Aanchal Narula  Jaminy Ulaganathan   \" width=\"440\" height=\"227\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock&#39;s DECA team<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Brock Business students competed at an international conference against 238 schools this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649"}],"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=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9659,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions\/9659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}