Local students excel in business competition
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. >> About 250 students from 11 schools Corinth, Saratoga Springs and BOCES recently competed during the 26th annual High School Business Day at SUNY Adirondack.
Students were tested in a variety of areas including new additions such as computer applications/business formatting, general business and agricultural business.
The event also incorporated programming for technology students, including a Personal Computer and Home Network Quiz Bowl and an Ethical Hacking Challenge.
First-place winners received $200 SUNY Adirondack scholarships, and students who placed second- through fifth-place received Amazon gift cards. The winners are: • Team Test: First, Hudson Falls; second, Brunswick; third, WSWHE BOCES ECCA-Business; fourth, Saratoga Springs; fifth, Granville.
• Pitch It Contest: First, WSWHE BOCES ECCA-Business; second, South Glens Falls; third, Hudson Falls.
• Marketing: First, Alexandria Mickel, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; second, Coleman Fignar, Saratoga Springs; third, Thomas Parrish, Saratoga Springs; fourth: Jordan Fuss, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; fifth: James Ward, Queensbury.
• Personal Finance: First, Kirsten Strum, Ticonderoga; second, Luke Siewert, Saratoga Springs; third, Parker Taft, South Glens Falls; fourth, Garrett Lamouree, Queensbury; fifth: Garret Stiles, Queensbury.
• Accounting: First: Luke Shapiro, Saratoga Springs; second: Abigail Sova, Greenwich; third: Tressa Smith, Saratoga Springs; fourth: Luke Siewert, Saratoga Springs; fifth: Jack Reimann, Saratoga Springs.
• Business Law: first: Nicholas Andrus, Granville; second: Parker Taft, South Glens Falls; third: Jack Whittaker, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; fourth: Charles Washburn, Queensbury; fifth, Cole Peterson, Corinth.
• Business Math: First, Alexis Dunean, Brunswick; second: Taylor Bourn, Granville; third, Bobby Treshack, Brunswick; fourth: Alex Stone, Brunswick; fifth: Garrett Lamourre, Queensbury.
• Sports Marketing: First: Cameron Woodard, South
Glens Falls; second: Alex LaPlante, Granville; third, Caleb Poag, WSWHE BOCES ECCA-Business; fourth: Ethan Kerr, Ticonderoga; fifth, Justin Bell, Granville.
• Computer Applications/ Business Formatting: First, Kyle Campbell, Granville; second: William Richmond, Hudson Falls; third: Abigail Sova, Greenwich; fourth: Dylan Heidorf, Granville; fifth: Emma French, Greenwich.
• Economics: First, Sarah O’Connor, Queensbury; second: Nick Sumner, Granville; third: Garrett Lamouree, Queensbury; fourth: Kyle Ouimet, Saratoga Springs; fifth: Charles Washburn, Queensbury.
• General Business: First, Parker Taft, South Glens Falls; second: Amanda Touse, South Glens Falls; third: Zack Burch, Granville; fourth, Kirsten Strum, Ticonderoga; fifth, Colin Ladd, Ticonderoga.
• Agricultural Business: First, Drew McEachron, Granville; second, Ford Smith, Granville; third, Patrick Morehouse, Queensbury; fourth, Brendan Duffy, Queensbury; fifth, Nate Weeks, South Glens Falls.
• Keyboard Timing: First, James Young, Greenwich; second, William Person, Bolton; third, Gabriella Fisher, Brunswick; fourth, Jacob Wilkson, Greenwich; fifth, Emma French, Greenwich.
• Entrepreneurship: First, Charles Washburn, Queensbury; second, Garret Stiles, Queensbury; third, Caleb Poag, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; fourth, Adam Collins, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; fifth, Brendon Duffy, Queensbury.
• Business Communications: First, Claire Stafford, Brunswick; second, Alexis Duncan, Brunswick; third: Bobby Treshock, Brunswick; fourth, Abigail Sova, Greenwich; fifth, Will Vogel, Queensbury.
• Ethical Hacking: First, Tyler Akins, Bryce Coss and Cordell Smith, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; second, Nicholas Rowinski, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy; third: Jacob Szymanski, Ryan Viele and Dylan Morehouse, WSWHE BOCES Early College Career Academy.