{"id":21966,"date":"2013-07-11T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=21966"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:29:08","slug":"fiu-fbla-pbl-chapter-enjoys-success-at-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2013\/07\/fiu-fbla-pbl-chapter-enjoys-success-at-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU FBLA-PBL chapter enjoys success at national conference."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Florida International University (FIU) College of Business\u2019 Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda capped off a successful year with a strong performance at a national competition in Anaheim, Ca.<\/p>\n

An FIU team of three students captured seventh place in the Free Enterprise showcase, which evaluates a group project that serves to educate the community. FIU\u2019s chapter also received the Gold Seal Award, given to the top ten percent of all chapters in the organization.<\/p>\n

FIU\u2019s Business Olympics, the activity recognized by FBLA-PBL, brings together COB students for competitions in public speaking, accounting, business decision making. The group recently opened the competition to all COB organizations as a way for them to help recruit members.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt FIU, we are so proud to be recognized as one of the top chapters in the nation,\u201d said Gedma Estrada, incoming president of FIU\u2019s FBLA-PBL chapter. \u201cIt was also gratifying to be recognized for our work with the Business Olympics in the final year of the Free Enterprise competition.\u201d In addition to Estrada, the Free Enterprise team consisted of Kevin Carballe and Eric Semino.<\/p>\n

A total of six students from the College of Business participated in the Anaheim competition, which drew over 3,000 students from throughout the nation to compete in 55 different competitions, including live events.<\/p>\n

National success follows state-wide victories.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Earlier this year, at the statewide FBLA-PBL conference in Orlando, FIU won top awards, including three first- and one second-place finishes. Panthers took honors in 15 categories at the state level.<\/p>\n

In the coming year, Estrada said, FIU\u2019s FBLA chapter will introduce several new activities, including competitions in cost accounting, business sustainability and personal finance, all of which will be open to students at other FIU colleges and schools. The group will also leverage contacts made at the national conference with other colleges of business to develop partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida International University (FIU) College of Business\u2019 Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda capped off a successful year with a strong performance at a national competition in Anaheim, Ca. An FIU team of three students captured seventh place in the Free Enterprise showcase, which evaluates a group project that serves to educate the community. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3032,3030,3029,3034,845,846,3033,3027,3028,3031],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966"}],"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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21978,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions\/21978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}