April 2, 2021
Florida high school students attended the virtual conference to enhance their business skills, expand their networks and compete in more than 70 business-related events.
Future Business Leaders of America Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. (FBLA-PBL) is a student business organization aimed at inspiring and preparing students to become community-minded business leaders.
In addition to the competitions, students participated in interactive workshops and listened to presentations from motivational speakers. Students who placed in the top four will be moving on to the virtual National Leadership Conference, which will take place in early July.
The following students and teams placed in the competitions. The awards are listed by school:
Carwise Middle School
- Business Etiquette Middle Level – Mia Jarrell – Second Place
- Business Math and Financial Literacy Middle Level – Julia Conciatori – Third Place
- Digital Citizenship Middle Level – Connor Maquet – Third Place
- Parliamentary Procedure Concepts Middle Level – Julia Kraszewski – Fourth Place
Gibbs High School
- Cyber Security – Quinton Cummings – First Place
Lakewood High School
- Political Science – Brian Tran – First Place
- Sports Entertainment Management – Robert Shedden, Alex Shim-Huang, & Ryan Smith – Second Place
- Computer Game & Simulation Programming – Endri Pashollari, David Tran, & Julian Gonzalez – Third Place
- Public Service Announcement – Aaliyah Ball & Audrey Long – Third Place
- Journalism – Maya Rish – Fourth Place
- Mobile Applications – Zachary Pavelski, Jeremy White Jr., & Benjamin Sam – Fourth Place
Largo High School
- Intro to Financial Math – Elise Tong – Third Place
Madeira Beach Fundamental School
- Elevator Speech Middle Level – Malachi Bartlett – Second Place
Osceola Fundamental High School
- Graphic Design – Madison Taylor & Juanita Ruan – First Place
- Hospitality & Event Management – Andriana Detsis, Rachel Nuyten, & Tommy Wynne – First Place
- Word Processing – Nellie Moore – Second Place
- Graphic Design – Ashley Percifield, Kayla Hibberd, & Abigail Moore – Third Place
- Networking Infrastructures – Ethan Kocses – Fourth Place
- Publication Design – Kylie Sutherland, Ella Edmiston, & Abbe Edmiston – Fourth Place
- Word Processing – Elijah Byrne – Fourth Place
- Broadcast Journalism – Vega Scholpp – Fifth Place
Palm Harbor University High School
- Digital Video Production – Alex Kranias – First Place
- Help Desk – Lillian Ghozali – First Place
- Intro to Business Communication – Janet Liu – First Place
- Intro to Parliamentary Procedure – Alyssa Abraham – First Place
- Journalism – Erin Behrmann – First Place
- Future Business Leader – Vaarun Ramanathan – Second Place
- Intro to Business Communication – Melinda Liu – Second Place
- Intro to Parliamentary Procedure – Lucas John – Second Place
- Community Service Project – Chapter Project – Third Place
- Organizational Leadership – Rachel Warren – Third Place
- Intro to Social Media Strategy – Marta Szymanska – Fourth Place
- Partnership with Business Project – Chapter Project – Fourth Place
- Intro to Public Speaking – Aanya Bhandari – Fifth Place
- Job Interview – Alice Messiah – Fifth Place
- Who’s Who in FBLA – Jennifer Lawrence – Finalist
Pinellas Park High School
- E– Business – Smith Myranda, Julia Lane, & Caleb Sandige – Second Place
St. Petersburg High School
- Intro to Public Speaking – Riley Hemmel – Second Place
Thurgood Marshall Fundamental Middle School
- Elevator Speech Middle Level – Josiah Walker – Fourth Place
