The Mara­bel­la North Sec­ondary School team Wheels and Deals has been named the cham­pi­ons of this year's Na­tion­al Sec­ondary School En­tre­pre­neur­ship Com­pe­ti­tion (NSSEC).

The team of form four stu­dents Mau­rique Joseph, Jay­den Stew­art-Hon­ore, Elis­sa Moze and Latisha Fi­garo end­ed the com­pe­ti­tion with 224.268 points.

The Mara­bel­la North Sec­ondary School team was able to hold off the chal­lenge of two teams from St James Sec­ondary School.

The St James Sec­ondary School team Ul­ti­mate Bik­erz Inc placed sec­ond and the school's Ly­on Bikes team placed third in the com­pe­ti­tion.

This year's edi­tion of NSSEC saw 600 par­tic­i­pants en­gaged in over 5,000 hours of en­tre­pre­neur­ship train­ing, Dr Chris­t­ian Stone of 3Stone Re­search and Con­sult­ing Ltd stat­ed.

NSSEC is an on­line vir­tu­al com­pe­ti­tion that dou­bles as an in­no­v­a­tive en­tre­pre­neur­ial train­ing pro­gramme.

It utilis­es a life-like sim­u­la­tion ex­pe­ri­ence where par­tic­i­pants act as busi­ness own­ers mak­ing tough strate­gic busi­ness de­ci­sions that be­come in­creas­ing­ly chal­leng­ing.

"Tra­di­tion­al­ly busi­ness ed­u­ca­tion is di­vid­ed in­to si­los, mar­ket­ing, fi­nance, hu­man re­sources, the NSSEC pro­gramme brings to­geth­er all of the el­e­ments in­to one co­he­sive unit so the stu­dents learn how to func­tion as en­tre­pre­neurs, " Stone stat­ed.

Mara­bel­la North Sec­ondary School's Face­book page laud­ed the school's teams.

Apart from win­ing the com­pe­ti­tion, the Mara­bel­la North Sec­ondary school team Aes­thet­ic Bikes Co-op­er­a­tion placed sixth over­all.

The form five team, com­prised of Laris­sa Tuitt, Chris­ton Pa­poon­s­ingh, Tyrel Acos­ta and Isa­iah Gue­vara.

"Mara­bel­la North Sec­ondary does not take these vic­to­ries light­ly. In a time when so many with­in our coun­try are af­fect­ed by the pan­dem­ic, our stu­dents con­tin­ue to break bar­ri­ers and el­e­vate the name and im­age of our school. For this, we salute each of them for their hard work and com­mit­ment through­out the var­i­ous stages of the com­pe­ti­tion," it stat­ed.

"None of this would have been pos­si­ble how­ev­er with­out the en­thu­si­asm, vi­sion and guid­ance of Mr Sunil Bridglal, our MET teacher, who worked tire­less­ly with both groups to en­sure vic­to­ry. Sir, our school ap­plauds you! Hats off to all those who were part of the com­pe­ti­tion and we cer­tain­ly look for­ward to more ex­cit­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties / av­enues through which our stu­dents can shine, it stat­ed.