{"id":10592,"date":"2021-02-17T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:55:01","slug":"ghc-student-academic-team-heads-regionals-national-competition-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2021\/02\/17\/ghc-student-academic-team-heads-regionals-national-competition-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"GHC student academic team heads to regionals in national competition this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

A student academic team from one of Georgia Highlands College\u2019s (GHC)<\/a> bachelor\u2019s programs is ready to compete this weekend in the national Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) Case Competition set for Feb. 20.<\/p>\n

Students in GHC\u2019s Logistics and Supply Chain Management program<\/a> have been given the opportunity to test their supply chain knowledge and use their critical thinking and problem-solving skills to work on real-world challenges, said Assistant Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Lucinda Montgomery.<\/p>\n

The 2021 ASCM Case Competition<\/a> is provided by ASCM in collaboration with Deloitte Consulting LLP. Participating teams present solutions to an exciting end-to-end supply chain management problem as they compete for prize money and recognition. The case may involve distribution, logistics, sales and operations planning, inventory, and other operations management challenges.<\/p>\n

Seven teams from GHC competed in the \u201cCollege and University Round\u201d of the national competition in October 2020. From that group of seven GHC teams, two entered into the \u201cVirtual Qualifying Round\u201d in November 2020. Of those two GHC teams that entered into the \u201cVirtual Qualifying Round,\u201d one team, led by student Stephen Harmon, is advancing to the \u201cSoutheast Regional Round\u201d on Feb. 20, 2021. If that team is successful at the \u201cRegional Round,\u201d they will go on to compete in the \u201cFinal Competition\u201d in October 2021.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cStudents were presented with a case, data exhibits, a PowerPoint template and judging rubric. For this particular case, students had to answer three questions and scenarios pertaining to COVID-19 and the impact on supply chains,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cGHC\u2019s team is in the Top 8 in our region, and out of over 300 participating colleges and universities, GHC is ranked in the Top 64 overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students on the team are Stephen Harmon and Raul Madrid of Cartersville, along with Krystal Ellis of Acworth and Trent Mull of Rome. Students are enrolled at the Cartersville site and take classes remotely.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe members of our team were surprised and excited to learn we would go on to compete in the regional round,\u201d Harmon said. \u201cWe had put in a considerable amount of time outside of normal school hours to put our presentation together. I could not be any prouder of my team and team members for the effort that they put into the ASCM case competition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Harmon said he and his team feel their classes helped prepare them for the competition, which in turn provided an opportunity to engage in some of the workplace scenarios that graduates of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management program may encounter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe course material from our first week in the BBA program through the present is highly applicable to the ASCM case competition,\u201d Harmon said. \u201cIt also helped that the BBA program at GHC is not simply textbook learning. There are a lot of hands-on assignments and projects to apply the textbook learning to real-world current issues and situations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A student academic team from one of Georgia Highlands College\u2019s (GHC) bachelor\u2019s programs is ready to compete this weekend in the national Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) Case Competition set for Feb. 20. Students in GHC\u2019s Logistics and Supply Chain Management program have been given the opportunity to test their supply chain knowledge and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10594,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions\/10594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}