North Allegheny School Students Shine at Marketing Career Development Conference

The North Allegheny School District proudly announces that 49 North Allegheny High School marketing students competed at the District 2 DECA Career Development Conference in December. Congratulations to the following students who won First Place Awards at the District Conference:

1st Place - Individual Events:
Lauren Gill
David Pearson
Andrea Macedonia
Luke Soyster
Tiffany McGinnis
Ryan Spengler
Grant Sefcik
Nick Steenson

1st Place - Team Events:
Matt Battaglia & Nick Kaiser
Michelle Murray & Melissa Sharlow
Jake Elich & Adrian Enica 
Abby Kirkendoll & Emmie Bish
Justin Leonard & Cody Blacks
Jiemin Sheng & Nirmal Bhanga

The next level of competition is the state conference, which will be held at the end of February 2013 in Hershey, PA. In addition to competing in various marketing areas, several students will be competing in marketing research, written events, entrepreneurship innovations plans, and fashion promotion plans. Students will present their findings and make recommendations to a panel of judges.

DECA is an Association of Marketing Students, operating through the nation’s schools to attract young people to careers in marketing, advertising, management, and entrepreneurship. There are 62 DECA chapters in Pennsylvania with a membership of more than 3,300 students, alumni, teachers and business professionals.

Other North Allegheny students that won awards were:

2nd Place-Individual Events:
Rachel Sutton, Alyssa Meyers, Kaylie Arlow, Nick Borgese, Kaylee Williams, Alec Raymond, Patrick O’Neil, Dakota Smiley, Joe Griffin, Grant Page, Dan Briskey and Bradford Thornburgh

3rd Place-Individual Events
Matt Blahnik, Emma Harvey, Nicole Tarazona, Meg Sekinger, Cassie Stephens, Cory Osterwise, Dan Sofranko, Marty Hubert, Tyler Landman, Tyler Parker, Jin Li Zhao and Joey Huber 

DECA Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit student organization that was founded in 1946. With over a 60 year history, the organization has touched the lives of more than ten million students, educators, school administrators and business professionals.  For more information about DECA please visit their website at www.deca.org.

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