Winners of Business Competition Take Home $1,000

Winning Teams at Entrepreneurial Business Plan Competition
at SUNY Rockland Community College Take Home $1,000

Suffern, NY - Teams of students from SUNY Rockland Community College and Rockland County high schools competed on December 4 for $1,000 in a business plan competition. Each team had two or three members. Winners:

Clarkstown High School South: Textrade

Students Andrew Vigotsky and Richard Bunyan won $1,000 for their proposed business plan, Textrade, a Web site with a specifically designed page for the students of each constituent college/university to use for trading textbooks. High school advisor was Mr. Dan Greaven.

RCC Students: Save A Life

Students Michal Lemel and Ephraim Tauber won $1,000 for their proposed business plan, Save A Life, which provides day and evening education in emergency life saving skills primarily to corporations and college students. RCC advisor was Thomas Swift, adjunct faculty, Business.

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, Rockland County Chapter, and the Rockland Community College Business Department co-hosted the competition.

Each winning team received the grand prize of $1,000, which was funded by the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants, Rockland Chapter. Mr. Mitchell Gusler, CPA, Senior Partner, Rifkin & Company, and President, New York Society of Certified Public Accountants, Rockland Chapter, and Dr. Martin Lecker, RCC Professor of Business, presented the prizes.

For more information, contact coordinators Dr. Martin Lecker, Professor, Business, at (845) 574-458, mlecker@sunyrockland.edu, or Doreen Zarcone, Enrollment Management, at (845) 574-4323, dzarcone@sunyrockland.edu or visit: www.sunyrockland.edu/go/businesscompetition

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Rockland Community College, a unit of the State University of New York, is located 25 miles northwest of NYC. The majority of its students transfer to four-year colleges, and many find immediate employment upon earning their associate's degree or certificate. The College also offers others, from preschoolers to senior citizens, the opportunity to simply learn something new. Quality education...at a price you can afford.