Mamaroneck High School Students Take Top Honors at State Business Competition

Mamaroneck High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter recently travelled to the New York State Spring Leadership Conference in Rochester and was named New York State Chapter of the Year, the school announced.

The victory marks the second year in a row that the team was victorious at the event. Mamaroneck students won top awards in 18 of the 60 competitions, including First Place honors in Community Service, Cyber Security, Mobile Application Development, and Networking Concepts and Second Place awards in Digital Design & Promotion, Entrepreneurship, FBLA Principles & Procedures, Local Chapter Annual Business Report and Outstanding New Member.

A total of 130 teams from around the state competed in the event.

“We recently began collaborating with Mr. Jadav’s computer science students, and this has been a wonderful partnership that has broadened our impact and enabled us to distinguish Mamaroneck in new ways,” said Maria Siciliano, MHS’s Future Business Leaders of America advisor. “Our Chapter of the Year award represents the hard work, perseverance and effort of all 48 FBLA student members attending from Mamaroneck HS. I couldn’t be more proud.”

In addition to the competitions, students immersed themselves in educational workshops to sharpen their core business skills, visited an information-packed exhibit hall, expanded their networks and attended motivational keynotes on a broad range of business topics. Gillian Sweeney was elected State Historian, and Sophia Danzinger tied for District 3S Vice President.

Among the award recipients:

1st Place

Chapter of the Year
Community Service Project
Cyber Security- Andrew Katz
Mobile Application Development - Andrew Katz, Sam Brause
Networking Concepts - Andrew Katz

2nd Place
Digital Design & Promotion - Malena Bianco, Lauren Pogostin, Paula Torres
Entrepreneurship - Noah Haber, Sam McGrath, Gillian Sweeney
FBLA Principles & Procedures - Lindsay Nissinoff
Local Chapter Annual Business Report
Outstanding New Member (Grades 7, 8, 9) - Paula Torres

3rd Place
Agribusiness - Isabel Alvarado
Digital Video Production - Andrew Hilfiger, Marie Amelie Morange
Economics - Tyler Derby

4th Place
Computer Game & Simulation Programming - Matt Gropper, Alex Rothman
Economics - Paul Adrien Morange
Insurance & Risk Management - Tyler Derby
Intro to Business Communication - Jonah Marsh
Intro to Parliamentary Procedure - Hannah Siegel
Word Processing - Sophia Danziger

Future Business Leaders is the largest and oldest student business organization, with a quarter million members and advisers in over 6,500 active middle school, high school, and college chapters worldwide. 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.

Photo: Mamaroneck High School’s Future Business Leaders of America team, 2015. Photo credit: Mamaroneck School District

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