Maryland Students Recognized With Top Honors At FBLA National Leadership Conference

July 15, 2014

For Immediate Release                      Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486

 

Maryland’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) delegation brought home 12 medals and an additional seven (7) other top recognitions from the recent National Leadership Conference and Competition in Nashville, TN, June 29- July 2, 2014.

More than 225 students and advisors from Maryland attended the National Leadership Conference. The conference brought together more than 10,000 students and advisers from throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Department of Defense Dependent Schools Europe, China, and Haiti.  The attendees participated in leadership workshops, campaign rallies, regional meetings, and competitive events. The following Maryland students received the below national ranking at the FBLA Awards of Excellence Program on July 2.

Student Name(s)	Event	Place	School	City/County
Cristin Arrup	Pilot Event – Microsoft Word	2nd	Loch Raven High School	Baltimore, MD Baltimore County
Thorne Lindsey	Economics	2nd	Allegany High School	Cumberland, MD Allegany County
Andrew Liu	Insurance & Risk Management	2nd	Marriotts Ridge High School	Marriottsville, MD Howard County
Handa Chun	Cyber Security	3rd	Mount Hebron High School	Ellicott City, MD Howard County
Matthew Miklosovich	Health Care Administration	3rd	Eastern Technical High School	Essex, MD Baltimore County
Anita Amin	Health Care Administration	5th	River Hill High School	Clarksville, MD Howard County
Aidan Shilling	Help Desk	5th	Center for Career and Technical Education	Cumberland, MD Allegany County
Anant Mishra	Economics	7th	Centennial High School	Ellicott City, MD Howard County
Amy Christianson, Gretchen Eichelberger, and Justin Hart	Community Service Project	9th	Northern High School	Owings, MD Calvert County
Michelle Njau and CeCe Ukejinya	Marketing	9th	Dulaney High School	Timonium, MD Baltimore County
Anna Maloney and Anthony Wegner	Personal Finance	9th	Huntingtown High School	Huntingtown, MD Calvert County
Nathan Yuchi	Computer Applications	10th	River Hill High School	Clarksville, MD Howard 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.

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