BOCA RATON – The Florida Council on Economic Education (FCEE) has announced the winners of the Competition of Decision-making with Ethics (CODE). Suncoast High School and Spanish River High took top honors.
Out of 56 team videos submitted from three school districts, the top nine videos were uploaded to Youtube for public voting. Voting for this new state-wide program to introduce business ethics education in Florida classrooms has just been completed and the top three student videos can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/user/OwnYourCODE?feature=mhee.
Winners are:
Statewide Champions: Team Virtuosos: Corinee Thomas, Gerald Djajaputra, Brian Callahan, Matthew Bleefeld, Jillian Herman
Teacher: Tazeen Rashid – Suncoast Community High School, Riviera Beach
Business Partner/Mentor: Jonathon Lowe, Predictive Consulting, LLC
2nd Place: Skynet: Raoul Dolcine, Christopher Basara, Melanie Gold, Hayle Henderson, Aleksandar Iricanin
Teacher: Tazeen Rashid – Suncoast Community High School, Riviera Beach
Business Partner/Mentor: Jonathon Lowe, Predictive Consulting, LLC
3rd Place: BusyNest: Ellyn Snider, Brandon Thal, Andrew Santos, Elizabeth Oester, and Marisa Rosen
Teacher: Deb Carter – Spanish River High School, Boca Raton
Business Partner/Mentor: Christina Morrison, Christina Morrison Pearce, P.A., CPM, CDPE
Together, with leading educators, ethicists, and business leaders, the FCEE has developed an interactive program that puts high school students on the front lines of a hypothetical business, where they have to make critical ethical and competitive business decisions.
After a series of lessons and classroom instruction, students were presented with a business case study and a dilemma in which they made a series of key business and ethical decisions.