PV students top business competitions
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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BY TINA PAPPAS
Passaic Valley Today
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LITTLE FALLS – Students from Passaic Valley High School recently entered two business student competitions with first and third place finishes.
Noel Ruggiero entered an investor writing competition and won first place.
Ruggiero won the PNC Region InvestWrite Competition. Currently in her senior year, Ruggiero's winning essay entitled, "The Guide to a Regretless Future," was submitted in early December. The essay will now be automatically entered in the national competition and the winner will be chosen at the end of January.
"This is a national and regional essay writing competition, which follows the Ruberic system," said Elizabeth Reidel, New England regional coordinator for SIFMA, Foundation for Investor Education. "The three main things we look for is understanding of subject matter, rationale and whether the essay was thoughtful, including writing style. This was a great achievement by Noel and we congratulate her."
According to Reidel, Ruggiero went up against students from Hudson, Bergen, Passaic and Essex counties. The competition has been around since 2003 and is produced by "The Stock Market Game" program.
"I have the great fortune of having her in two of my classes this year and she is really going places," said Keith Ketcho, PVHS business teacher. "We're so proud of her for winning first place in the PNC region of the New Jersey High School competition."
PVHS students also were third place finishers in the high school division of the fall 2009 New Jersey Stock Market Game, for the Oct. 12 to Dec. 18 session. The program has a total of 2,552 students spanning elementary, middle and high school. The five students on the team honored are Erik Barnes (captain), junior; Stephanie Piereschi, senior; John Dantoni, senior; Eric Skyta, junior; and Albert Zicker, junior.
"They made $24,767.83 in a 10 week period to finish third in the entire state," added Ketcho. "Our incredible team beat out 1,429 other high school teams throughout the state for a strong finish and we're so proud of all of them."
All PVHS student winners will be honored at William Paterson University on Feb. 2. The event will be hosted by SIFMA, parent of NJ SMG, PNC Bank and WPU.
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LITTLE FALLS – Students from Passaic Valley High School recently entered two business student competitions with first and third place finishes.
Noel Ruggiero entered an investor writing competition and won first place.
Ruggiero won the PNC Region InvestWrite Competition. Currently in her senior year, Ruggiero's winning essay entitled, "The Guide to a Regretless Future," was submitted in early December. The essay will now be automatically entered in the national competition and the winner will be chosen at the end of January.
"This is a national and regional essay writing competition, which follows the Ruberic system," said Elizabeth Reidel, New England regional coordinator for SIFMA, Foundation for Investor Education. "The three main things we look for is understanding of subject matter, rationale and whether the essay was thoughtful, including writing style. This was a great achievement by Noel and we congratulate her."
According to Reidel, Ruggiero went up against students from Hudson, Bergen, Passaic and Essex counties. The competition has been around since 2003 and is produced by "The Stock Market Game" program.
"I have the great fortune of having her in two of my classes this year and she is really going places," said Keith Ketcho, PVHS business teacher. "We're so proud of her for winning first place in the PNC region of the New JerseyHigh School competition."
PVHS students also were third place finishers in the high school division of the fall 2009 New Jersey Stock Market Game, for the Oct. 12 to Dec. 18 session. The program has a total of 2,552 students spanning elementary, middle and high school. The five students on the team honored are Erik Barnes (captain), junior; Stephanie Piereschi, senior; John Dantoni, senior; Eric Skyta, junior; and Albert Zicker, junior.
"They made $24,767.83 in a 10 week period to finish third in the entire state," added Ketcho. "Our incredible team beat out 1,429 other high school teams throughout the state for a strong finish and we're so proud of all of them."
All PVHS student winners will be honored at WilliamPatersonUniversity on Feb. 2. The event will be hosted by SIFMA, parent of NJ SMG, PNC Bank and WPU.
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