On April 19-21, members of Monroe-Woodbury High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) attended the FBLA State Leadership Conference in Rochester, NY. Competitive events at the state Leadership Conference play an integral role in the mission of FBLA. According to the FBLA conference description, they “prepare students for successful careers in business by providing opportunities to apply classroom concepts in a workforce-simulated competitive environment.”
Congratulations to the following M-W attendees who placed in a variety of performance and test based competitions:
- Kyle Torres and Matthew Qu - 1st place in Entrepreneurship
- Matthew Qu - 2nd place for Help Desk
- Pravin Jegan - 2nd place for Intro to Marketing Concepts and 4th place for Intro to Parliamentary Procedure
- Jeter Sison- 3rd place in both Job Interview and Political Science
- Emily J. Taveras - 4th for Organizational Leadership
- Visakhi Miriyapalli, Emily J. Taveras and Anya Malhotra - 5th Place in Publication Design
Visakhi Miriyapalli completed her responsibilities as the State Executive Vice President for the 2022-2023 year. Visakhi also placed 5th for Future Business Leader, the most prestigious award the FBLA offers.
Diya Mangatt finished serving her responsibilities as the District 3N State Vice President for the year. Diya also ran for a mainline officer position and was voted in as the 2023-2024 NYS President for FBLA, the first M-W student to hold this position since 2015. We look forward to the many great things she will do next year.
With more than 50 chapters competing at the state level with close to 1,200 students in attendance, Monroe-Woodbury took home 4th place for "Chapter of the Year.” It has been a great and successful year. Go Crusaders!
Front row from left: Joanna Rodríguez, Swathi Sathiyamoorhy, Ava Cherian, and Ella Cherian. Back row from left: Pravin Jegan, Emily J. Taveras, Matthew Qu, Jeter Sison, Kyle Torres, Anya Malhotra and Siddharth Ranganathan.