The Pennsylvania Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) recently held its annual State Leadership Conference in Hershey, PA and 40 North Penn High School (NPHS) FBLA team members attended to compete in various business-related events.
Thousands of students from across the state of Pennsylvania came together in Hershey, PA to compete and attend business and leadership focused workshops.
Once again, the NPHS FBLA Chapter led by NPHS Business teacher Mrs. Linda Westerlund did an outstanding job at the FBLA State Conference and Competitions bringing home 21 awards. Eleven students qualified to compete at the FBLA National Conference in San Antonio, Texas this summer. Vianne Chang, one of these winners, was also just selected by the FBLA National Office to serve as an intern at the National Leadership Conference. She was selected from numerous applicants from across the United States.
At the FBLA State Competition, the NPHS FBLA team had 21 students place in the top 10 in their events and 11 students qualify to compete at the National Conference in San Antonio, Texas from June 27 to July 3.
Congratulations to the following individual students and teams of students who competed and placed in the below events at the FBLA State Competition.
- Nicole Albright: 1st Place, Spreadsheet Applications
- Logan Dubil: 1st Place, Sales Presentation
- Jared Huzar: 1st Place, Agribusiness
- Emily Liu: 2nd Place, Business Communication
- Allison Yang: 2nd Place, Fashion Marketing - Open Event; 6th Place, Human Resources Management - Open Event; 9th Place, Business Calculations
- Nick Cataldi: 3rd Place, Sports & Entertainment Management - Team 1
- Evan Sternbach: 3rd Place, Sports & Entertainment Management - Team 1
- Vianne Chang: 3rd Place, Advertising
- Connie Jiang: 3rd Place, Agribusiness; 6th Place, Social Media Marketing - Open Event; 7th Place, Human Resources Management - Open Event
- Christopher Killion: 3rd Place, Economics
- Sasha Sidah: 3rd Place, Fashion Marketing - Open Event
- Ben Curlee: 4th Place, Mobile App Development - Team 1
- Neelay Velingker: 4th Place, Mobile App Development - Team 1
- Aditya Datta: 5th Place, Impromptu Speaking
- Divya Sood: 7th Place, FBLA Creed/Code of Ethics/FBLA Pledge - Open Event
- Kevin Nguyen: 9th Place Cyber Security
- Sam Lee: 10th Place, Business Calculations
FBLA is the largest career student organization in the world. Each year, FBLA helps over 230,000 members prepare for careers in business. FBLA' s National Awards Program, commonly called competitive events, recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. Through state-based competition at the spring State Leadership Conferences, members compete in events that test their business knowledge and skills. Top winners in each state are eligible to compete for honors at the National Leadership Conference which will be held in Baltimore, MD this summer.
Congratulations to all who competed and best of luck to the students competing at the FBLA National Conference this summer in San Antonio, Texas.