{"id":12743,"date":"2011-07-15T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=12743"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:08:30","slug":"fius-fbla-pbl-chapter-ranked-second-best-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/07\/fius-fbla-pbl-chapter-ranked-second-best-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU\u2019s FBLA-PBL chapter ranked second best in the nation."},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando happened to be the location for the 60th<\/sup> Annual National Leadership Conference for Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL)—and a Florida university emerged as a top leader of the organization.<\/p>\n

The FBLA-PBL chapter from Florida International University (FIU), already the Florida Chapter of the Year, now ranks second in the nation, it was announced at the June conference. FIU placed ahead of Penn State, Georgetown University, University of California-Berkeley and other business schools.<\/p>\n

FIU\u2019s chapter was also recognized as a Gold Seal Chapter, a designation given to only the top five percent.<\/p>\n

\"FBLA-PBL
FBLA-PBL members at the 60th Annual National Leadership Conference, held in Orlando<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A group of 16 FIU students, the majority from the College of Business Administration, was among the 1,800 students attending the weekend event, which included competitions and judging of yearlong projects.<\/p>\n

FIU chapter shines in competitions.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were one of two Florida schools that made it to the finals of the Integrated Marketing Campaign competition,\u201d said Jose Nunez, a marketing major. \u201cOur entire chapter showed up to watch our team make our presentation to the judges. That\u2019s the support we give one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nunez and his teammates won the competition and were among the many FIU students receiving awards at the conclusion of the conference:<\/p>\n

First Place: Free Enterprise Project<\/p>\n

Team: Louis Castillo, Bruno Cevallos, Michael Perez<\/p>\n

First Place: Integrated Marketing Campaign<\/p>\n

Team: Jose Nunez, Michael Perez, Juan Zambrano<\/p>\n

First Place: Future Business Teacher<\/p>\n

Yelen Nunez<\/p>\n

Second Place: Largest Membership in Southern Region<\/p>\n

FIU Chapter<\/p>\n

Second Place: Local Annual Business Report<\/p>\n

Team: Claudia Capdesuner and Bruno Cevallos<\/p>\n

Third Place: Business Presentation<\/p>\n

Bruno Cevallos and Gedma Estrada<\/p>\n

Third Place, Professional Division: Government\/Civic Awareness<\/p>\n

Yanyn San Luis<\/p>\n

Seventh Place: Sales Presentation<\/p>\n

Saad Munaf<\/p>\n

Ninth Place: Emerging Business Issues<\/p>\n

Eric Lopez and Angie Navarrete<\/p>\n

Tenth Place: Networking Concepts<\/p>\n

Laura Alonso<\/p>\n

Obtaining the President\u2019s Level:<\/p>\n

Claudia Capdesuner<\/p>\n

\u201cWe broke barriers and records at the conference,\u201d said Yanyn San Luis (BA \u201910), who serves as chapter advisor. \u201cThe hard work and dedication of these undergraduate students has brought honor to FIU.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orlando happened to be the location for the 60th Annual National Leadership Conference for Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL)—and a Florida university emerged as a top leader of the organization. The FBLA-PBL chapter from Florida International University (FIU), already the Florida Chapter of the Year, now ranks second in the nation, it […]<\/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":[2507,2693],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743"}],"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=12743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28675,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions\/28675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}