West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North team members Jack Paley, Roberta Schapiro, Joe Gonnella and Chris Orsini consider a question posed by moderator Anthony Brennan during Mercer County’s 2014 Consumer Bowl competition on Feb. 26, 2014 at the Stone Terrace in Hamilton.
A team of students from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North took the top honor at Mercer County’s 2014 New Jersey High School Consumer Bowl on Feb. 26.
The WW-PHS North team beat out seven other area schools in a quiz-show style competition on good consumer practices.
The winning team consisted of Joe Gonnella, Lauren Miele, Chris Orsini, Jack Paley and Roberta Schapiro. The team’s adviser is teacher William Totaro.
WW-PHS North is set to compete at the Central Jersey Regional Consumer Bowl in Monmouth County on April 8.
Mercer County’s annual Consumer Bowl competition is sponsored by the Mercer County Division of Consumer Affairs and pits teams from local high schools against one another to test their knowledge on being a smart shopper.
The division created the Consumer Bowl in 1994 as a way to encourage students to become smarter consumers, to be wary of scams and unfair business practices, and to be knowledgeable when obtaining services like home improvements or buying products such as vehicles or appliances.
This year’s competition was held at the Stone Terrace in Hamilton.
A team from Ewing High School was a finalist.
Other participating schools included Hamilton High School West, Hightstown High School, Nottingham High School, Steinert High School, Villa Victoria Academy in Ewing and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South.
More information is online at mercercounty.org.
