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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE WINNERS OF THE 11TH ANNUAL PROSTART® HIGH

SCHOOL COMPETITION

     Introduced By: Representatives Cotter, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Chippendale, Spears,
Dawson, Kennedy, Edwards, Tanzi, and Ajello

     Date Introduced: April 20, 2023

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, ProStart® is “a two-year hospitality career-building program designed by

the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation” with an enrollment of nearly 600

Rhode Island students. The Hospitality & Tourism Management program and the American Hotel

& Lodging Educational Institute is a two-year, turnkey high school curriculum with

approximately 100 additional students currently enrolled; and

     WHEREAS, Hosted by the RI Hospitality Education Foundation, the ProStart® High

School Competition is an annual event featuring three competitive areas, Culinary Arts,

Foodservice Management, and Hotel Management; and

     WHEREAS, Forty-five high-school culinary students from five Rhode Island schools

competed in the three areas, with more than fifty local industry professionals serving as judges.

At stake was $500,000 in available scholarship money, pledged by seven different colleges and

universities to be shared among the winning teams; and

     WHEREAS, The culinary team members from the Exeter Job Corps Academy, including

Xaalyn Barr, Jaheim Shannon, Steven Sarabia, Michael Rotondi, and Luis Cosme, led by Chef

Instructor Mark Bennison, won the Culinary Arts portion of the competition; and

     WHEREAS, A foodservice management team from the East Providence Area Career &

Technical Center including Annabella Camelo, Haley Duarte, and Sade Williams, led by Chef

Instructor Marie-Claire McKillip won the Foodservice Management portion of the competition;

and

     WHEREAS, The hospitality and tourism management team from CHARIHOTech

including Elisabeth Kendall, Isabella Basile, Liliana D’Alfonso, Morgan Desarro, and Lucas

Segura, led by Instructor Donald Fair won the Hotel Management portion of the competition; and

     WHEREAS, Winning dishes and desserts from the competition will be featured at some

of Rhode Island’s finest restaurants, and winning culinary and foodservice management team

members will now advance to represent Rhode Island at the National Restaurant Association

Educational Foundation’s National ProStart® Invitational competition; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby

extends enthusiastic congratulations to members of Exeter Job Corps Academy, the East

Providence Area Career & Technical Center, and CHARIHOTech on winning the ProStart High

School Competition and wishes Exeter and East Providence best of luck at the National

Competition in Washington on May 2nd; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Exeter Job Corps Academy, East Providence

Area Career & Technical Center, and CHARIHOTech.

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