{"id":17730,"date":"2012-08-31T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17730"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:46:58","slug":"students-of-alpfa-fiu-learn-about-latino-leadership-at-las-vegas-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/08\/students-of-alpfa-fiu-learn-about-latino-leadership-at-las-vegas-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Students of ALPFA FIU learn about Latino leadership at Las Vegas convention."},"content":{"rendered":"

Contrary to the advertising slogan, business student Gillyana Santos hopes that what happened in Vegas does not<\/em> stay in Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to remember everything I learned and keep the contacts I made,\u201d she said concerning the annual convention of ALPFA, an organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities in business, accounting, finance and related professions for Latinos and members of all cultures.<\/p>\n

Santos was among the more than 50 members of ALPFA FIU<\/a>, an organization in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), selected to attend the annual ALPFA convention, expenses paid. The group, along with chapter advisor Tessie Brunken (EMST \u201986, BBA \u201981), traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada for the August 11-16, 2012 event.<\/p>\n

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Members of ALPFA FIU proudly wore their FIU Business shirts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe outstanding opportunities I had included interviewing for an internship,\u201d Santos said. \u201cI applied online in advance and met with people from PwC and Deloitte.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the theme of \u201cShining the Light on Latino Leadership,\u201d the convention offered a career fair with representatives from Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and other big names. Santos said she perfected her \u201celevator speech,\u201d the short summary job candidates use to quickly and effectively introduce themselves.<\/p>\n

This honors student also participated in seven skill-building workshops, was a guest at the Women of ALPFA luncheon and enjoyed convention fun.<\/p>\n

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The ALPFA FIU contingent at the closing gala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Activities this year included a case competition, talent show, the raffle of a new Mercedes-Benz and, of course, seeing Las Vegas sights.<\/p>\n

The 3,000 attendees pay tribute to one of FIU\u2019s shining stars. <\/em><\/p>\n

At the convention\u2019s closing awards gala, a surprise announcement was made: ALPFA\u2019s \u201cStudent of the Year\u201d award is now permanently renamed the \u201cDaniel Zamora Student of the Year Award.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Daniel Zamora and Manny Espinoza, ALPFA CEO, during the 2009 convention at which Zamora was named ALPFA National Student of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The designation honors FIU alumnus and former ALPFA FIU president Daniel Zamora (MACC\u2019 12, BACC \u201910) who himself earned the national student of the year designation in 2009. He passed away in early August.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe announcement and the standing ovation for Daniel was an emotional time,\u201d said Santos, who also reported that Daniel\u2019s parents and brother Kevin, the chapter\u2019s consulting officer, were at the convention. \u201cI will always remember that moment, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contrary to the advertising slogan, business student Gillyana Santos hopes that what happened in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. \u201cI want to remember everything I learned and keep the contacts I made,\u201d she said concerning the annual convention of ALPFA, an organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities in business, accounting, finance and related professions for […]<\/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":[41,544,1017,1508,2388,2555],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730"}],"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=17730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29391,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions\/29391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}