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LC005651 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024 | |
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H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N | |
CONGRATULATING THE WINNERS OF THE 12TH ANNUAL PROSTART® HIGH | |
SCHOOL COMPETITION | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Solomon, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Casimiro, Kazarian, | |
Date Introduced: March 28, 2024 | |
Referred To: House read and passed | |
1 | WHEREAS, ProStart® is “a two-year hospitality career-building program designed by |
2 | the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation” with an enrollment of nearly 600 |
3 | Rhode Island students. The Hospitality & Tourism Management program and the American Hotel |
4 | & Lodging Educational Institute is a two-year, turnkey high school curriculum with |
5 | approximately 100 additional students currently enrolled; and |
6 | WHEREAS, Hosted by the RI Hospitality Education Foundation, the ProStart® High |
7 | School Competition is an annual event featuring three competitive areas, Culinary Arts, |
8 | Foodservice Management, and Hospitality Tourism Management; and |
9 | WHEREAS, Forty-five high school culinary students from five Rhode Island schools |
10 | competed in the three areas, with more than fifty local industry professionals serving as judges. |
11 | At stake was nearly $1,000,000 in available scholarship money, to be shared among the winning |
12 | teams; and |
13 | WHEREAS, The culinary team members from the Exeter Job Corps Academy, including |
14 | Armani Rios, Nikaya Garcia, Curiney Cain, Steven Sarabia, and Jakayla Steele, led by Chef |
15 | Instructor Mark Bennison, won the Culinary Arts portion of the competition; and |
16 | WHEREAS, A foodservice management team from the Warwick Area Career and |
17 | Technical Center including Tyler Lowe, Bruce Angelini, Kate Whalen, and Victoria "Harper" |
18 | Salinas, led by Instructor Austin Irons won the Foodservice Management portion of the |
19 | competition; and |
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1 | WHEREAS, The hospitality tourism management team from CHARIHOTech including |
2 | Elinor Hammett, Gawin Apice, Juliet Costa, Olivia Swanson, and Morgan Allen, led by Instructor |
3 | Donald Fair won the Hospitality Tourism Management portion of the competition; and |
4 | WHEREAS, Winning dishes and desserts from the competition will be featured at some |
5 | of Rhode Island’s finest restaurants, and winning culinary and foodservice management team |
6 | members will now advance to represent Rhode Island at the National Restaurant Association |
7 | Educational Foundation’s National ProStart® Invitational competition; now, therefore be it |
8 | RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby |
9 | extends enthusiastic congratulations to members of Exeter Job Corps Academy, the Warwick |
10 | Area Career and Technical Center, and CHARIHOTech on winning the ProStart High School |
11 | Competition and wishes Exeter and Warwick best of luck at the National Competition in |
12 | Baltimore, MD, on April 26th through April 28th, 2024; and be it further |
13 | RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
14 | transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Exeter Job Corps Academy, Warwick Area |
15 | Career and Technical Center, and CHARIHOTech. |
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