Members of Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda at the State Leadership Conference, where they won many awards including \u201cFlorida Chapter of the Year\u201d for the third time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nConference results in abundant awards and honors. <\/em><\/p>\nAt the conference, with its theme of \u201cElectrifying Leadership,\u201d Emmanuella Casimir <\/strong>was elected 2011-12 District V vice president.<\/p>\nJose Betancourt<\/strong>, the outgoing Florida FBLA-PBL President, was given the Rob Kelleher Memorial Award, presented annually to the member who best exemplifies the leadership, ideals and aspirations of the organization.<\/p>\nThe chapter placed first in three important categories:<\/p>\n
\n- Local Annual Business Report<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Free Enterprise Project<\/strong>: \u201cEconomic Xperience: Exploring the Great Recession\u201d<\/li>\n
- Community Service Project<\/strong>: \u201cHealthy Steps,\u201d raising awareness and funds for the American Diabetes Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Team awards went to:<\/p>\n
Emerging Business Issues<\/p>\n
First Place: Eric Lopez<\/strong>, Angelica Navarrete<\/strong>, Quy Van<\/strong><\/p>\nIntegrated Marketing Campaign<\/p>\n
First Place: Jose Nunez<\/strong>, Michael Perez<\/strong>, Juan Zambrano<\/strong><\/p>\nComputer Game and Simulation Programming<\/p>\n
Second\u00a0 Place: Laura Alonso<\/strong> and Saul Perez<\/strong><\/p>\nSecond Place: Business Presentation<\/p>\n
Bruno Cevallos<\/strong> and Gedma Estrada<\/strong><\/p>\nIn individual competition, Christopher Cuan<\/strong> placed third in the highly competitive Public Speaking category.<\/p>\nClaudia Capdesuner<\/strong> won first place in the Job Interview category.<\/p>\n\u201cOne goal of FBLA-PBL is to facilitate the transition from school to work,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause of this competition, I am more than ready to apply the skills to real life interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other individual winners were: <\/strong><\/p>\nFuture Business Teacher<\/p>\n
First Place: Yelen Nunez<\/strong><\/p>\nFinancial Analysis and Decision Making<\/p>\n
Third Place: Bruno Cevallos<\/strong><\/p>\nInformation Management<\/p>\n
Second Place: Daniel Fernandez<\/strong><\/p>\nThird Place: Saul Perez<\/strong><\/p>\nNetworking Concepts<\/p>\n
Second Place: Laura Alonso<\/strong><\/p>\nFourth Place: Daniel Fernandez<\/strong><\/p>\nClient Services<\/p>\n
Third Place: Mauricio Rodrigues<\/strong><\/p>\nFinancial Services<\/p>\n
Second Place: Maria Sabando<\/strong><\/p>\nFuture Business Executive<\/p>\n
Fourth Place: Emmanuella Casimir<\/strong><\/p>\nHospitality Management<\/p>\n
Second Place: Barbara Borrero<\/strong><\/p>\nHuman Resource Management<\/p>\n
Fifth Place: Leunelys Lopez<\/strong><\/p>\nImpromptu Speaking<\/p>\n
Fourth Place: Jonathan Yoc Kim<\/strong><\/p>\nSales Presentation<\/p>\n
Third Place: Saad Munaf<\/strong><\/p>\nYanyn San Luis <\/strong>(BA \u201910) and Jose Toscano <\/strong>(BA \u201997) serve as FBLA-PBL chapter advisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the members were still in high school when FBLA-PBL began winning the coveted title of \u201cFlorida Chapter of the Year.\u201d The ranking was achieved for the third time at the 2011 State Leadership Conference for Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda held March 10-13 in Tampa. Twenty-nine members of the chapter, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1385,2507,2693],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23745,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}