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BEST IN THE BIZ The Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce presented a rare lifetime achievement award at Tuesday evening’s event and the honour went to a delighted Elizabeth Hill (left) of Elizabeth Hill Consulting. She told the audience at the Sheraton Parkway that it was appropriate the first award to a woman would be presented on International Women’s Day. Another winner in the Best Non-Profit Business category was 360Kids, with chamber board chair Bryon Wilfert (below, centre) presenting the award to executive director Michael Braithwaite (far left). See page 22 for more.
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High school shatters provincial DECA award record By Rishi Bansal and Claire Zhou
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More than 7,000 students competed at the DECA Ontario Provincial Competition in February. The Bayview Secondary School team earned 135 medals, 29 plaques and 66 ICDC qualifiers, shattering the previous DECA Ontario record for the highest number of qualifiers from a single chapter. Previously known as Delta Epsilon Chi and Distributive Education Clubs of America, DECA is a professional development organization. Bayview DECA members had weekly training sessions starting in September. They practised their presentation skills and learned new business content for the competitions.
Bayview also sends debating students to compete in England
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However, it was not this training alone that made Bayview DECA members so successful in competition. It was the extra time that members spend outside of training with the trainers and executives, poring over written reports or practising case studies that enabled them to be in that top 6.6 per cent. This extra time and effort from the chapter allows Bayview DECA to sustain its winning
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and supportive culture. For provincials, competitors are tasked with solving problems presented to them in business case studies. Some students are given these cases at the beginning of the DECA season in September where they have to write a report of between five and 30 pages; others prepare a solution on the spot and present it to a judge in a 10-minute presentation. With only 6.6 per cent of all competitors advancing to the International Career Development Conference (ICDC) held in the United States, competition is intense and preparation See HEADING, page 21.
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