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LC006015 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2026 | |
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S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N | |
CONGRATULATING THE WINNERS OF THE 2026 14TH ANNUAL PROSTART® HIGH | |
SCHOOL COMPETITION AND WISHING THEM SUCCESS AT THE NATIONAL | |
PROSTART® INVITATIONAL | |
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Introduced By: Senators LaMountain, E Morgan, Patalano, Britto, Famiglietti, Mack, | |
Date Introduced: April 09, 2026 | |
Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration | |
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 800 |
3 | Rhode Island students and an additional 400 students enrolled in the Hospitality & Tourism |
4 | Management program, designed by the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute’s |
5 | (AHLEI) which is also a two-year, turnkey high school curriculum; and |
6 | WHEREAS, The Rhode Island Hospitality Education Foundation (RIHEF) hosted the |
7 | 2026 14th Annual Rhode Island High School Culinary Arts, Foodservice & Hotel Management |
8 | Competition in February, with ten local teams competing for scholarships and prizes, and the |
9 | opportunity to represent Rhode Island in the 2026 National ProStart® Invitational in Baltimore, |
10 | Maryland from April 24th - 26th, 2026; and |
11 | WHEREAS, The annual event features three competitive categories: Culinary Arts, |
12 | Foodservice Management, and Hospitality Tourism Management, with more than thirty local |
13 | hospitality industry professionals serving as judges; and |
14 | WHEREAS, The top competitors represented Chariho Career and Technical Center |
15 | (CHARIHOTech), Newport Area Career and Technical Center, Warwick Area Career and |
16 | Technical Center, William M. Davies, Jr. Career and Technical High School and Woonsocket |
17 | Area Career and Technical Center; and |
18 | WHEREAS, Rhode Island’s First Place Culinary Arts Team, hailed from the Warwick |
19 | Area Career and Technical Center includes Instructor Eva Niosi, and winning students Anthony |
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1 | Morales, Richard Desmarais, Tyler Hartley and Liam McGloin; and |
2 | WHEREAS, The First Place Foodservice Management Team also hailed from the |
3 | Warwick Area Career and Technical Center, includes Instructor Austin Irons and winning |
4 | students Jailyn Huffman, Giana Gioffreda, Alexiana Medeiros, Anissa Gill, and Liliana |
5 | Lunsmann; and |
6 | WHEREAS, The First Place Hospitality & Tourism Management Team, hailed from the |
7 | Chariho Career and Technical Center, includes instructor Donald Fair and winning students Rosie |
8 | Sposato, Logan Berdos, Maddie Niewiecki, and Lilyana Juneau; and |
9 | WHEREAS, The winning Culinary Arts and Foodservice Management Teams will now |
10 | advance to compete at the 2026 National ProStart® Invitational on April 24th - 26th, 2026, where |
11 | they will represent not only their respective schools, but also the State of Rhode Island; now, |
12 | therefore be it |
13 | RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby extends enthusiastic |
14 | congratulations to the Warwick Area Career and Technical Center, the Chariho Career and |
15 | Technical Center, their instructors, and their students on winning the 2026 Rhode Island |
16 | ProStart® High School Competition, and wishes them the very best of luck at the National |
17 | ProStart® Invitational in Baltimore, MD; and be it further |
18 | RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
19 | transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Warwick Area Career and Technical Center and |
20 | the Chariho Career and Technical Center. |
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