Four Anatol Rodgers High School students each have $2,000 in scholarship money to add to their college coffers.
Clinton Storr, Xena Greene, Jonaelcia Hall and Joey Pyfrom placed first in the hospitality project competition at the recent Hospitality and Tourism Management Program (HTMP) International Competition in Orlando, Florida. They had to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and event-planning abilities in a scenario that included budget parameters, proposal design, banquet event orders, menus and floor plans.
The scholarship prizes the Anatol Rodgers students won included $3,000 to Widener University, $1,000 to Sullivan University and another $1,000 to Florida International University, where they are eligible for further training and certifications.
Overall, the Anatol Rodgers team finished fourth out of 11 schools. During the HTMP competition, teams of students displayed their proficiency while competing in three contests: hotel operations, a hospitality project segment and the knowledge bowl.
In the hotel operations segment, students applied their knowledge in a three-part challenge: room inspection, in which students had 10 minutes to find 10 housekeeping cleaning errors in a typical guest room using an executive housekeeping checklist; night audit, in which teams performed financial calculations and manually posted front desk accounting information, and case studies in food and beverage, guest service and sales and marketing, in which students had 20 minutes to prepare solutions to case study scenarios.
During the hospitality project competition, the teams had to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities in event planning.
During the knowledge bowl, teams demonstrated their knowledge through a multi-round question-and-answer quiz.
Anatol Rodgers' coach, Janelle Cambridge-Johnson, was awarded the Lamp of Knowledge Award for Most Outstanding Hospitality Teacher. She was the first teacher outside the United States to receive the award.

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