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
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 Cecil County |
| Pranav Ganapathy Kunal Pathade |
American Enterprise Project |
9th |
Centennial High School | Ellicott City, MD Howard County |
| Rishub Nahar Omkar Konaraddi |
Business Ethics |
10th |
Urbana High School | Ijamsville, MD Frederick County |
| Yixuan Jiu | Business Law |
7th |
Marriotts Ridge High School | Marriottsville, MD Howard County |
| Affan Hussain, Josh Talley, and Peter Sergyeyenko | Computer Game & Simulation Programming |
3rd |
Dulaney High School | Cockeysville, MD Baltimore County |
| Alexandra Harrington | E-business |
3rd |
Huntingtown High School | Huntingtown, MD Calvert County |
| Nick Santangelo | Health Care Administration |
2nd |
Marriotts Ridge High School | Marriottsville, MD Howard County |
| Thorne Lindsay | Insurance & Risk Management |
7th |
Allegany High School | Cumberland, MD Allegany County |
| Handa Chun Shayan Siahpoushan |
Network Design |
9th |
Mount Hebron High School | Ellicott City, MD Howard County |
| Nikki Datta Kristin Li |
Public Service Announcement |
5th |
River Hill High School | Clarksville, MD Howard County |
| Katherine Hofman | Word Processing |
8th |
Worcester Technical High School | Newark, MD Worcester County |
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.