And compete they did. The 18-student delegation from the College of Business Administration won 15 awards—including three first-place finishes. That number exceeded the chapter\u2019s record-breaking 13 awards in 2011 and placed FIU ahead of University of Texas, University of Pittsburgh and University of California-Berkeley, among many others. More than 500 chapters\/universities attended.<\/p>\n \u201cWe continue to set the example across the country that the business students at FIU are unparalleled,\u201d said chapter advisor Yanyn San Luis (BA \u201910). \u201cThe undergraduate students continue to do amazing work and represent FIU Business exceptionally well.\u201d<\/p>\n Members and chapter as a whole gain recognition.<\/em><\/p>\n Individual awards<\/strong><\/p>\n Laura Alonso, sixth place, database design and applications<\/p>\n Claudia Capdesuner, eighth place, sales presentation<\/p>\n Louis Castillo, ninth place, telecommunications<\/p>\n Bruno Cevallos, Career and Membership Achievement Program (CMAP), President level<\/p>\n Gedma Estrada, CMAP President level<\/p>\n Yegor Nadvornyy, first place, financial analysis and decision making; seventh place, financial concepts<\/p>\n Jose Nunez, CMAP President level<\/p>\n Daniel Torrens, tenth place, client services<\/p>\n Team awards<\/strong><\/p>\n Bruno Cevallos and Amir Vasquez, first place, business ethics<\/p>\n Bruno Cevallos, Claudia Capdesuner and Michael Perez, fifth place, free enterprise project<\/p>\n Nicole Jimenez and Jacqueline Perez, first place, business presentation<\/p>\n Gabriel Noboa and Michael Perez, eighth place, marketing analysis and decision making<\/p>\n Chapter awards<\/strong><\/p>\n Gold Seal Chapter Award of Merit, a national recognition program for which the top 15 percent of local chapters in each state are eligible, based on their active participation in projects and programs identified with the organization\u2019s goals<\/p>\n Outstanding Chapter Recognition, based on 12 activities in the categories of service, education and progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In March, 30 members of Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) from Florida International University (FIU) captured 32 awards from the organization\u2019s 2012 State Leadership Conference. Thanks to their victories, they earned the right to compete for 17 awards at the 61st Annual National Leadership Conference, \u201cGateway to Greatness,\u201d held in San Antonio, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[70,281,448,542,973,989,1216,1379,1546,1607,1883,2012,2693,2694],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28768,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions\/28768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"FBLA-PBL](\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Group-Shot.jpg\" "\\"FBLA-PBL")