19 Stamford Students Qualify For FBLA Leadership Conference

STAMFORD, CT - From Stamford Public Schools: Stamford Public Schools (SPS) announced that 25 students from the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapters at Westhill High School (WHS) and Academy of Information Technology & Engineering (AITE) recently participated in the FBLA Connecticut State Leadership Conference at Naugatuck Community College Competition. SPS students competed among hundreds of students from across Connecticut. Nineteen SPS students were among those who qualified for the National Competition, by placing in the top four in their category.

Cristian Smina, WHS, 1st Place, Securities and Investments

Gaurov Bansal, WHS, 1st Place, Introduction to Financial Math

Tejas Juware, WHS, 1st Place, Economics

Andrew Fang, WHS, 1st Place, Coding and Programming

Roubing Liao, WHS, 1st Place, Game Design Simulation

WHS Team, 1st Place, Business Ethics

Talia Kunin, Brynn Spingola, Morgan McDonald

WHS Team, 1st Place, Banking and Financial Systems

Rutvik Marathe, Andrew Ukhanov, Alexander Printsev

AITE Team, 2nd Place, Marketing

Francesca Merentie, Sisi Huang

WHS Team, 3rd Place, Intro to Business Presentation

Tejas Vermani, Nathaniel Yaghoubian

Viktoria Grushka, WHS, 3rd Place, Business Law

Rowan Whelan, WHS 4th Place, Accounting

AITE Team, 4th Place, Entrepreneurship

Josh Aarons, Kevin Duffy

"Our students were amazing—we are thrilled to once again have a strong showing of students qualify for the national competition,” said Westhill Business/Unified Arts Teacher Karen Kurtz. “These students were very dedicated and worked extremely hard. We could not have asked for a better group to represent Stamford."

According to the organization, FBLA's State Leadership Conferences help students prepare for careers in business by focusing on academic competitions and leadership development. The conference offers opportunities to network, develop leadership skills, and visit exhibitors and vendors. Students, who place in the top four in their event at the state competition, qualify to participate in the National Conference, which will be held later this summer in San Antonio, Texas. At the National Conference, students will have the opportunity to participate in additional competitions, as well as educational workshops, exhibit halls and motivational keynotes on a broad range of business topics.

FBLA-PBL is the largest and oldest student business organization. The organization’s National Leadership Conference attracted participants from across the United States. Participants sharpen their core business skills, expand their networks, and participate in more than 60 business and business-related competitive events.