Ozone Park High School Wins Financial Services Competition

QUEENS — Students at a high school in Ozone Park won a competition geared towards diversifying financial services by creating an app proposal to promote small businesses.

Students at John Adams High School beat hundreds of other competitors at the “Battle of the Boroughs” competition on Dec. 14, hosted by Fordham Foundry and SuitUpat at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business in Manhattan.

For the competition, the students had to create a product or service that “celebrates and rebuilds a sense of community in New York City post-pandemic.”

The team at John Adams High School presented their proposal of an app that would bring people together through culturally based content and events, by promoting small businesses across the boroughs, and by launching a campaign to keep the city clean in which everyone could participate.

Student pitches were reviewed by members from companies including Evercore, Centerview Partners, Millennium, Santander Bank, Angelo Gordon, Insight Partners, and Goldman Sachs.