Lansdale Students Qualify For Future Business Leaders National Conference

LANSDALE, PA – Pennsylvania Future Business Leaders of America held its annual State Leadership Conference in Hershey, PA, April 10 through April 13. Over 4,000 students from all across the state of Pennsylvania came together to compete and attend business-related workshops.

Students were able to listen to Alex Sheen, founder of Because I Said I Would, whose purpose is to encourage and support making and keeping promises to end suffering, establish peace, and build happiness. They created the Promise Card to help hold people accountable to their commitments.

North Penn had 24 students place in the top 10 in their events. North Penn’s FBLA chapter earned some recognition and Kaitlyn “KC” Carrelli was elected to the position of FBLA State Secretary for the 2016-2017 school year.

North Penn place winners were:

· Fiyi Adebekun and Srikar Katta placed 9th in Emerging Business Issues (team event)

· Morgan Brett, Madi Peyton, and Amanda Skidmore placed 3rd in Promotional Video Creation (team event)

· Kaitlyn "KC" Carrelli was elected State Secretary

· Marc Curlee placed 3rd in Agribusiness

· Reid Dentner placed 8th in Investments/Stock Market and 1st in Securities and Investments

· Jacob Diamond, Collin McConaghy, and Shannon Quinn placed 2nd in Sports and Entertainment Management (team event)

· Brian Durkin placed 7th in Desktop Application Programming

· Gavin Hennessey, Luke Homan, and Owen Kelly placed 8th in Hospitality Management (team event)

· Niketa Kulkarni placed 8th in Help Desk

· Peter Laurens placed 2nd in Help Desk

· Evelyn Ma, Annie Shi, and Angeline Tong placed 5th in Publication Design (team event)

· Abby Mueller placed 8th in Job Interview

· Yang Yue placed 4th in Economics

· Chris Yang placed 4th in Business Calculations

· Stephanie Zhang placed 8th in Introduction to Financial Math

Nine of these students now qualify to represent North Penn by competing at the National Conference in Atlanta this summer.

North Penn's FBLA Chapter placed 10th in the state in the Outstanding Chapter category.