Valencia High School juniors Nika Moosavi, Ishita Puggera and Jaden Nakamura took their leadership and confidence skills to a new level. The school’s chapter of Distributive Education Clubs of America, an international program that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management, culminates the year with a state conference where they present their work to a panel of judges. The three Valencia juniors were so passionate and dedicated to their campaign that the conference wasn’t enough for them — they personally wanted to present their innovative ideas to their company of choice for which they created the project: Prenuvo.
Prenuvo is a company focused on pioneering the future of health care offering an hourlong session of magnetic resonance imaging and searching for early signs of cancer, aneurysms, liver disease and multiple sclerosis. “They just fell in love with the company and they reached out on their own ..
. and wanted to share their efforts because they weren’t ready to say goodbye to it,” said Felicia Marquez, advisor for the class. The three students’ initiatives earned them a personal invitation to meet and pitch their ideas and campaign to Prenuvo officials, including its CEO.
“I was interested in the medical aspects of startup companies [like Prenuvo] and ...
with the help of artificial intelligence we thought it was very cool. AI is kind of the future of medicine and society as a whole so we were going t.