The snow couldn’t stop Moravian Academy from winning several awards last week at the 2019 Pennsylvania DECA State Career Development Conference taking place on February 20-22 in Hershey, PA. Moravian Academy students arrived a day late to the conference and scrambled to complete all the necessary testing and presentations in limited time. Despite the untimely snowstorm, our DECA chapter showed off their powerful business skills and took home 10 awards! 

1st Place – Isha Mohapatra ’19 – Start-Up Business Plan

1st Place – Neil Deshmukh ’20 – Business Growth Plan

1st Place – Ryan Hoffman ’19 & Robbie Shaff ’19 – Travel & Tourism Marketing Team Decision Making

2nd Place – Julius Ewungkem ’20 & Avi Singh ’20 – Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making

3rd Place – Naveen Ailawadi ’19 – Professional Selling Event

3rd Place – Isha Mohapatra ’19 – Student of the Year

4th Place – Tom Griffith ’20 and Garrick Lombardi ’19 – Buying & Merchandising Operations Research

4th Place – Archie Debbage ’22, Zach Demsky ’22 and Mikail Jaffer ’22 – Innovation Plan

5th Place – Jai Ailawadi ’22 – Principles of Hospitality & Tourism

The Moravian Academy Chapter also won a Plan of Action award.