NSU University School Students Earn National Recognition and Top Awards at the Junior Achievement National Student Leadership Summit

 

 

NSU University School is proud to congratulate our exceptional Junior Achievement (JA) Fellows Team for their success at the 2020 National Student Leadership Summit Awards. This extraordinary group of USchool entrepreneurs, who invented the Germ Genie™ kit, won second place for the coveted JA National Company of the Year Award. The annual JA Company of the Year Competition is a contest of business skills, ingenuity, and innovation.

Along with that incredible accomplishment, the JA Fellows Team also won the Best Financial Performance, Delta Social Impact and EY Innovation awards. Out of 500 student-run companies from around the nation, only 15 JA Fellow company teams were invited to compete at the JA National Student Leadership Summit.

Germ Genie stood out and earned the Delta Social Impact Award for creating a solution to address a local, national, or global concern by connecting customers and community. The Best Financial Performance Award was presented to the team for performing the best against criteria including profitability, investor expectations, employee earnings, product quality, leadership, and operational efficiency.

The Germ Genie team also had the opportunity to join Junior Achievement of South Florida’s Recipe for Success podcast to talk about their experience and achievements at the summit. To hear the team’s “Recipe for Success”, visit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDksyu8dWqA&feature=emb_title

These students gained real world experience conceptualizing, capitalizing, and managing their own small business. They created an airplane tray table cover to help limit the spread of germs that also includes a travel pack including face masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes, and a head rest cover. Congratulations to student officers Henry Hurowitz (CEO), Daniel Gutkin (CFO), Romy Peretz (CMO), Jonah Lubin (VP of Operations), and Benjamin Sterne (VP of Sales) for their hard work and success. Special thanks to co-sponsors Wynne Avellanet and Sonja Houston and special advisor Karen Martin for guiding and supporting the team throughout this process.

To purchase your own Germ Genie kit to stay germ-free on the go, visit: https://germgenie.com/