{"id":2841,"date":"2009-07-07T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:04:35","slug":"students-distinguish-themselves-at-national-leadership-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/07\/students-distinguish-themselves-at-national-leadership-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Students distinguish themselves at national leadership event."},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven students from the College of Business Administration participated in competitions at Phi Beta Lambda\u2019s (PBL) National Leadership Conference, \u201cGet the Edge,\u201d attended by more than 1,700 college students from across the country. Jose Betancourt<\/strong>, president of the Florida International University (FIU) chapter of PBL and Florida PBL state secretary took first place in public speaking, besting 70 competitors and netting a $750 award.<\/p>\n

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Eleven students from the College of Business Administration, joined by two from University of Florida, at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference, \u201cGet the Edge.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSeveral of the competitions had sponsors and yielded cash awards—some to individuals, some to chapters,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

His was courtesy of Dale Carnegie Training. The financial analysis and decision-making competition, in which Lindsey Washington<\/strong> placed fifth, and the local chapter business report competition, in which the FIU chapter placed third, also received cash awards.<\/p>\n

The other students—several placing second or third and all at least eighth—were Louis Castillo<\/strong>, Chris Cuan<\/strong>, Briana Huggins<\/strong>, Megan Lee<\/strong>, Lance Misztal<\/strong>, Theodore Mook<\/strong>, Sherene Thomas<\/strong> and Danielle Whiting<\/strong>. Yanyn San-Luis<\/strong> was named a Who\u2019s Who in PBL 2008-2009 recipient for Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were watching the live broadcast of the National Awards Program that evening, and every time they called FIU up to the stage, we couldn’t cheer enough,\u201d said Abdel Perera<\/strong>, founding president of the FIU chapter. \u201cWhen we won third place in the nation in the annual business report, I knew that the hard work from the previous year had paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conference provides professional development.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Megan Lee and Jose Betancourt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to various competitive events, the conference, which took place in Anaheim, California from June 20-23, 2009, included approximately 10 workshops a day, such as one on networking. Attendees also had the opportunity to hear from keynote speaker, business guru Frank Maguire.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe motivated us with his inspiring speech about his own experiences at FedEx, KFC, Project Headstart and the Special Olympics,\u201d Betancourt said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the college\u2019s chapter was named Florida Phi Beta Lambda Chapter of the Year at the State Leadership Conference, held in March in Tampa, Florida. The organization retains Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), the parallel high school organization, in its name so incoming FIU students will recognize the group, and also to distinguish it from a fraternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleven students from the College of Business Administration participated in competitions at Phi Beta Lambda\u2019s (PBL) National Leadership Conference, \u201cGet the Edge,\u201d attended by more than 1,700 college students from across the country. Jose Betancourt, president of the Florida International University (FIU) chapter of PBL and Florida PBL state secretary took first place in public […]<\/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":[273,411,475,546,845,919,953,966,1363,1607,1844,2128,2429,2562,2693],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841"}],"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=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28672,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/28672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}