PORTLAND — Students from South China’s Erskine Academy were overall winners, and Lisbon High School students were regional winners in the Junior Achievement of Maine hosted its 13th Annual Titan Challenge for high school students Wednesday, Feb. 27.
The business competition pitted teams of three high school students against each other as they attempted to manage a virtual company in a competitive marketplace. The event matched nearly 300 students with mentors from local businesses across the state. Students started the day by brainstorming mobile app ideas with their business mentors as part of Tyler Technologies’ Maine App Challenge.
Winners were:
IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook – Scarborough High School (Team 4) – Ryan Ocampo, Lena Wood, Logan Lon.
Thomas College, Waterville – Erskine Academy (Team 1) – Conner Paine, Myles Nored, Saif Rifat.
Tyler Technologies, Yarmouth – Lisbon High School (Team 2) – Izaya May, Sean Spaulding.
University of New England, Biddeford – Sanford Regional Technical Center (Team 1) – Christopher Caldeira, Jared Slowik.
Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor – Hermon High School (Team 1) – Connor Patten, Joel Bergeron, Nick Cox.
Machias Savings Bank, Machias – Washington Academy (Team 3) – Bradley Lenfestey, Mailena Alicea, Taylor Bridges.
The overall winner was Erskine Academy (Team 4) – Jay Austin, Marshal Dugal, and Seth Reed.
The statewide winning students received scholarship money presented by the MES Foundation, and each regional winning student received Amazon gift cards.
Statewide speaker Matt McGrath from Systems Engineering applauded the participants for their involvement in the business competition and encouraged the students to think outside the box when it comes to being a leader, starting a business, and impacting the community.
Many students left inspired by McGrath’s speech, organizers said, one student noting how cool it was to hear from a respected business leader who grew up in Maine
PHOTO: Overall winners Jay Austin, Marshal Dugal and Seth Reed of Erskine Academy’s team 4. (Submitted photo)
