Mundelein FBLA students earn state awards

Submitted by Mundelein High School District 120

Mundelein High School's Future Business Leaders of America had its best results to date at the State Competition, March 27-28, held in Springfield.

Mundelein had 27 national qualifiers, with many students qualifying a second or third time in their high school careers. Daniella Feijoo, the current state secretary, earned three awards at the conference.

"Daniella has achieved a lot as state secretary of Illinois FBLA and the president of Mundelein FBLA," said Advisor Chris Hoster. "But to take home three awards is extremely impressive."

First-place winners were Andrew Hurley in Agribusiness; the team of Darin Chaichitatorn, Daniella Feijoo, and Alexandra Guiritan in Business Plan; and the team of Alana Goodson, McKenzie Theis, and Victoria Willman in Digital Video Production.

Second-place winners were Stephen Ferro in Business Financial Plan; Kaitlyn Watkins in Client Service; and the team of Chris Cygnus, Raphael Rouvinov, and Ricky Cushing in Computer Game and Simulation Programming.

Third-place winners were Natasha Kumar in Introduction to Business Communication; Clark Dumblauskas in Business Law; Alex Espinosa in Computer Applications; the team of Adriana Feijoo and Stephen Wald in Desktop Publishing; the team of Justin Daoey, Kevin Fung, and Michael Ventrella in Global Business; the team of Sahana Belagur, Teju Kanala, and Kyra Tessmann in Marketing; the team of Daniella Feijoo, Stephen Wald, and Sari Sachnoff in Partnership with Business Project; and Ryan Antenore in Introduction to Business.

Members look forward to competing at the FBLA National Competition in June.

The conference sessions are available for the public to view at vimeopro.com/user38704267/2015-illinois-fbla-state-leadership-conference.

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