The MVHS Virtual Enterprise team “Play by Play Productions” went to New York for the International Trade Show the last week of March.  In the business plan competition, which had teams from various states throughout the country, the team finished in the top 6 in the country.  They made it through two preliminary rounds, and then were selected for the final.  After the 6 teams presented their plans in front of about 500 people at the McGraw-Hill headquarters, the top 3 were selected, but the MVHS team didn’t make the top 3.  However, this means they did finish somewhere between 4^th and 6^th in the nation.  The MVHS team was the only team from this elite group that was competing in the National Finals for the first time!

In addition to the Business plan competition, four MVHS students competed in the Global Business Challenge, which brought together students from all over the world to compete in an “Apprentice”-like competition where they were assigned a Harvard business school case and given 3 hours to put together a presentation to solve the problem.  The students got an invaluable experience with this, not only in trying to solve the problem, but having the opportunity to work with students from countries such as Brazil, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, and Hong Kong.

Also, the team's website was given an honorable mention award, which in this New York competition means the website ranks somewhere between 3^rd and 10^th place in the world.

In addition to their success, team members were also able to see many sites, including taking a tour of Wall Street, the 911 Memorial, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island, Museums, etc. 

The MVHS Virtual Enterprise “Play by Play Productions” came in 5^thplace in the State Business Plan Competition in Bakersfield last week to qualify to go to the National Competition in New York City in March.  This is quite an accomplishment, as the team had to beat out several high powered programs who previously have qualified to go for many years.  The team is excited about this opportunity, and a special congratulations goes to the Business Plan team of Kristen Wolf (CEO), Brooke Morrison (CFO), Jonathan Grosdidier (CBO), and Kaitlyn Jones (VP Marketing). 

In addition to the Business Plan Team’s accomplishments, the team also placed in a few other categories.  With over 100 teams from all over California, it was extremely competitive.  MVHS received awards in the following categories:

Website Design – 3^rd Place (Kevin Ullyott, King Sovanna, and Eli Padilla)

Human Resource Scenario – 8^th place (Emily Leech and Alexis Villanueva)

Booth Design (Elise Brandt, Jordan Figgins, Katie Ignelis, Ariel Seaton, Tanner Mott)

 

Team 569, which included Derek Wang, Serenity Waits, Taj Bryan, Vinayak Pillai, Jordan Niell, Erik Ruiz, Kevin Cruz, Harrison Chea, Matthew DeNava, Matt Turner, and Josh Turner, had one of the most dominant robots in the tournament and easily cruised into the playoffs undefeated and in 5th place overall. Team 569B ended up choosing them as an alliance partner, and they went undefeated through the playoffs and WON the tournament. Team 569 also won the AMAZE Award for having one of the best-built robots at the tournament. Their performance was truly AMAZING!

Team 569 B, which consisted of John Rivera, Ryan Barron, Scott Anderson, Spencer Hamilton, Justin Jordan, Alex Block, Bryce Longacre, and Graeme Crawford, finished the morning rounds undefeated but in 3rd place. They chose fellow MVHS team 569 as an alliance partner for the playoffs, as mentioned above, and they went undefeated to WIN the tournament. It was inspiring to watch these teams work together to achieve their goal of qualifying for the World Championships.

Jerry Walden, Michael Berna, Masha Polyakova, Devin Catron, Devin Bailey, Jason Garrido, and Adam Ayoub of Team 569 C had a rough morning, but pulled it together to get into the playoffs as the #8 seed. Their alliance knocked off the #1 seed in the quarterfinals, but fell just short in the semifinals. They had a great day, and I’m proud of how they kept working throughout the day to improve their robot.

Not only was it a great day for MVHS Robotics, but also for Murrieta Mesa Robotics. Out of the 6 teams in the finals, 4 of them were from Murrieta (2 from MVHS and 2 from MMHS). MVHS triumphed yesterday, but Mr. Matus and Mr. Lerossignol are doing a great job building the program at Mesa. To be in the finals in only their second tournament is a HUGE accomplishment. It was nice to see all of the teams from Murrieta perform so well.

The MVHS Virtual Enterprise team "Twisted Image" competed in the 10th Annual California State Virtual Enterprise Trade Fair last week and did extremely well. There were over 100 teams competing in 12 categories. Our Business Plan team came in 6th place, one away from qualifying to go to New York to the National competition. It is possible to be selected as a "wild card", but we will not know that for a little while yet. Here are the results:

Business Plan - 6th place (Alyssa Lowie, Graeme Crawford, Josh Lam, Matt Turner)

*This is the highest we have finished in the 3 years we've been participating

Commercial - 2nd place (Josh Daniels)

*First ever 2nd place award

Sales Catalog - 3rd place (Christina Calhoun, Austin Hoffman)

Website - 5th place (Josh Lam)

*First ever award in the Website category

Human Resource Scenario - 7th place (Dallas Butler, Jamie DeCastro)

Catalog Sales Presentation - Honorable Mention (Christina Calhoun, Austin Hoffman)

The rest of the team who competed well in various events and have helped with all aspects of putting the Business together are:

Tami Tamjid

Marcos Uriostegui

Becca DeRoest

Adam Caruso

Daniel Neverman

Chelsey Lerma

Nick Rosa

Mercedes Moreno

Henry Craig

John Okada

Thank you to everybody for your tremendous support. We will now plan for the Bay Area Trade Fair in March, and hopefully get the call to New York.

Thank you also to all of our Business Partners who have helped us with our project.

Lenore Johnson

Paul Nolta

Karen Robertson

Rex Oliver

Lori Maruffo

Brandon Sherman

Brian Connors

Scott Carpenter

Pat Kelley

Pam Wilson

Joe Gisis

Cheryl Lam

A big thank you to Ed Hoffman for making the photo booth for our booth.