Press Release: Maryland Students Take Home Medals At FBLA National Conference
Eleven Honorees from Seven Systems
For Immediate Release Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486
Baltimore, MD (July 10, 2015)
Maryland’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) delegation brought home 11 medals from the recent National Leadership Conference and Competition held in Chicago.
More than 225 students and advisers from the State attended the National Leadership Conference, June 29-July 2. The conference brought together more than 10,000 students and advisers from throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Department of Defense Dependent Schools Europe, China, and Haiti. Attendees participated in leadership workshops, campaign rallies, regional meetings, and competitive events. The Maryland students listed received national ranking at the FBLA Awards of Excellence Program held July 2.
Student Name(s) |
Event |
Place |
School |
City/County |
Olivia Richart |
Agribusiness |
2nd |
North East High School |
North East, MD |
Pranav Ganapathy |
American Enterprise Project |
9th |
Centennial High School |
Ellicott City, MD |
Rishub Nahar |
Business Ethics |
10th |
Urbana High School |
Ijamsville, MD |
Yixuan Jiu |
Business Law |
7th |
Marriotts Ridge High School |
Marriottsville, MD |
Affan Hussain, Josh Talley, and Peter Sergyeyenko |
Computer Game & Simulation Programming |
3rd |
Dulaney High School |
Cockeysville, MD |
Alexandra Harrington |
E-business |
3rd |
Huntingtown High School |
Huntingtown, MD |
Nick Santangelo |
Health Care Administration |
2nd |
Marriotts Ridge High School |
Marriottsville, MD |
Thorne Lindsay |
Insurance & Risk Management |
7th |
Allegany High School |
Cumberland, MD |
Handa Chun |
Network Design |
9th |
Mount Hebron High School |
Ellicott City, MD |
Nikki Datta |
Public Service Announcement |
5th |
River Hill High School |
Clarksville, MD |
Katherine Hofman |
Word Processing |
8th |
Worcester Technical High School |
Newark, MD |
Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education association. Its mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs. The association is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Within Maryland, more than 2,700 students participate in 80 high school chapters across the state.
For more information about Career Technology Education and FBLA, please contact Diana Hegmann, State Director, Maryland State Department of Education at 410-767-0536. You can also visit the official FBLA Maryland website at www.mdfbla.org.
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