{"id":7228,"date":"2010-04-08T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:36:55","slug":"future-business-leaders-of-fius-phi-beta-lambda-excel-at-state-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/04\/future-business-leaders-of-fius-phi-beta-lambda-excel-at-state-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Future business leaders of FIU\u2019s Phi Beta Lambda excel at state conference."},"content":{"rendered":"

They came, they saw, they conquered!<\/p>\n

The Florida International University (FIU) chapter of Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) returned to campus with a plethora of honors and achievements following the 2010 FBLA-PBL State Leadership Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe exceeded all expectations this year,\u201d said chapter president Bruno<\/strong> Cevallos<\/strong>, \u201cincluding earning the prestigious \u2018Chapter of the Year\u2019 award for the second consecutive year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Members
Members of FIU\u2019s Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda chapter at the 2010 FBLA-PBL State Leadership Conference during which the organization was named \u201cChapter of the Year\u201d for the second year running<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The group of 35 students, most from the College of Business Administration, attended the conference held March 19-22, 2010 in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n

FIU participants earned ten first-place awards through written examinations, performance events and other competitions:<\/p>\n

Accounting Analysis<\/p>\n

Alaina Goindoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Business Decision Making<\/p>\n

Team: Bruno Cevallos<\/strong> and Daniel Fernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Digital Video Production<\/p>\n

Team: Louis Castillo<\/strong>, Abdel Perera, Saul Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Database Design<\/p>\n

Saul Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Financial Concepts<\/p>\n

Bruno Cevallos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Financial Services<\/p>\n

M<\/strong>arcos Oyola<\/strong><\/p>\n

Future Business Executive<\/p>\n

Jose Betancourt<\/strong><\/p>\n

International Business<\/p>\n

Riquet Caballero<\/strong><\/p>\n

Impromptu Speaking<\/p>\n

Angelica Navarrete<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Speaking<\/p>\n

Orga Cadet<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe competitive edge that distinguishes our students helped us break barriers at this conference,\u201d Cevallos said.<\/p>\n

Outgoing FIU chapter president Jose Betancourt was awarded the Christopher J. Heider Scholarship and elected as the new state president for the 2010-2011 year. Outgoing state president, FIU\u2019s Theodore Mook<\/strong>, received the Rob Kelleher Memorial Award.<\/p>\n

Students move on to national competition, state leadership positions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Members earning top spots at the state conference competitions will represent Florida at the FBLA-PBL National Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, July 9-12, 2010.<\/p>\n

Plus, two projects that placed first at the state level will be presented at the national conference: the Community Service Project, \u201cTribute to Children\u201d Week, and the Free Enterprise Project, the \u201cFIU Business Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three FIU students were selected for the 2010-2011 PBL Executive Council for Florida. Jose Betancourt will serve as state president, Saul Perez as District V vice president and Emmanuella Casimir<\/strong> as parliamentarian.<\/p>\n

Jose<\/strong> Toscano<\/strong> (BA \u201997) serves as the advisor of FBLA-PBL at FIU. The organization retains Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), the parallel high school group, in its name so incoming FIU students will recognize the group and to distinguish it from a fraternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They came, they saw, they conquered! The Florida International University (FIU) chapter of Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) returned to campus with a plethora of honors and achievements following the 2010 FBLA-PBL State Leadership Conference. \u201cWe exceeded all expectations this year,\u201d said chapter president Bruno Cevallos, \u201cincluding earning the prestigious \u2018Chapter of […]<\/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":[2507],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228"}],"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=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28658,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/28658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}