{"id":21416,"date":"2013-03-27T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=21416"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:51:18","slug":"fbla-pbl-brings-home-15-awards-from-state-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2013\/03\/fbla-pbl-brings-home-15-awards-from-state-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"FBLA-PBL brings home 15 awards from state conference."},"content":{"rendered":"

The 63rd Annual State Leadership Conference for Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) yielded impressive results for members of the Florida International University (FIU) chapter. Eleven students from the College of Business won 15 awards, including four first-place finishes, earning kudos from throughout the university, including from the college\u2019s dean, David R. Klock.<\/p>\n

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The College of Business FBLA-PBL contingent at the 63rd Annual State Leadership Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI add my pride and congratulations to an awesome group of students—students who know that hard work and smart work lead to victory in many parts of life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Participants competed against attendees from Florida A&M, Florida State University, St. Thomas University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Florida and the University of South Florida, among many others.<\/p>\n

First place awards<\/em><\/p>\n

Desktop Publishing: Gedma Estrada and Stephanie Gutierrez<\/p>\n

Retail Management: Jennifer Kleinberg<\/p>\n

Sports Management & Marketing: Franco Aquino<\/p>\n

Second place award<\/em><\/p>\n

Free Enterprise Report: Franco Aquino, Kevin Carballe, Gedma Estrada and Eric Semino<\/p>\n

Third place award<\/em><\/p>\n

Sales Presentation: Justin Sanchez<\/p>\n

Fourth place awards<\/em><\/p>\n

Community Service Report: Franco Aquino and Amber Rolle<\/p>\n

Contemporary Sports Issues: Julia Fuller<\/p>\n

Sports Management & Marketing: Julia Fuller<\/p>\n

Client Service: Gedma Estrada<\/p>\n

Fifth place awards<\/em><\/p>\n

Largest Local Chapter Membership<\/p>\n

Local Annual Business Report: Claudia Capdesuner, Kevin Carballe, Gedma Estrada and Eric Semino<\/p>\n

Additional recognition<\/em><\/p>\n

Who’s Who in Florida Phi Beta Lambda: Nathalie Aviles<\/p>\n

Gold Seal Chapter Award of Merit (awarded to the top five percent of local chapters)<\/p>\n

Florida FBLA-PBL Autism Speaks State Project Participant<\/p>\n

Florida FBLA-PBL Feed the Foundation Project<\/p>\n

Franco Aquino, Kevin Carballe, Gedma Estrada, Stephanie Gutierrrez, Jennifer Kleinberg and Eric Semino will represent the chapter at the 2013 National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California June 22nd<\/sup> through June 25th<\/sup>. Yanyn San Luis (BA \u201910)\u00a0 serves as chapter advisor.<\/p>\n

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The 63rd Annual State Leadership Conference for Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) yielded impressive results for members of the Florida International University (FIU) chapter. Eleven students from the College of Business won 15 awards, including four first-place finishes, earning kudos from throughout the university, including from the college\u2019s dean, David R. Klock. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":25009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[63,448,2888,846,2886,967,989,2885,1432,2889,2887,1987,2884,2507,2693],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416"}],"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=21416"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25010,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions\/25010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}