Vernon Hills HS FBLA State Finalists Advance to National
Future Business Leaders of America members and advisers from Vernon Hills High School attended the Sixty-ninth Illinois Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference at the Crowne Plaza, Springfield, Illinois, on Friday and Saturday, April 6-7. Over 1,400 members, advisers, and guests from over 66 Illinois FBLA chapters were registered for the conference. The two-day state conference, with "Elevate Your Future" as the theme, included activities in personal development, business and leadership training, election of 2018-2019 state officers, and many competitive events.
VHHS had 79 competitors in 46 different events. VHHS had 31 national qualifiers (** denotes national qualifier). VHHS was recognized for being the 5th largest chapter in the State of Illinois with 112 members for the 2017-18 school year. Lynne Benson was recognized for her first year as a chapter adviser. Diane Phillips was recognized for her fifth year as a chapter adviser and for her upcoming retirement.
1st Place **
Cyber Security - Daniel Zhuang **
Emerging Business Issues - Morgan Kleidon, Nikhil Mangtani, Jonathan Wallach **
Introduction to Business Communications - Eric Song **
Management Information Systems - Anmol Parande **
2nd Place **
Computer & Game Simulation Programming - Andrey Shor, Ryan Marchenko, Matthew Nguyen **
Digital Video Programming - Tanya Bhargava, Arshiya (Shay) Waghela, Madelyn Woodrow **
E-Business - Gina Liu, Srivaishnavi (Vaishu) Popuri, Rithva Ramesh **
Hospitality Management - Isabelle Chin, Rachel Chung, Sara Weisblatt **
3rd Place **
Broadcast Journalism - Ria Subramanian, Vivian Tsai **
Business Plan - Rohet Chitikela, Benjamin Gorashchenko, Sujay Voleti **
Mobile Application Development - Neel Choudhary **
Organizational Leadership - Teddy Chen **
Parliamentary Procedures (Team) - Brandon Alpert, Sohan Barot, Robert Jacobson, Seth Kessler **
Sales Presentation - Sebastian Domenech **
4th Place **
Help Desk - Thomas Florian **
5th Place
Business Financial Plan - Jackie (Jie) Fu, Iman Paloba
Networking Concepts - Esther Cha
6th Place
Management Decision Making - Josh Kaytsner, Zachary Qian, Kevin Yoon
Parliamentary Procedures (Individual) - Sohan Barot
7th Place
Introduction to FBLA - Sathvik Vuppunuthula
Social Media Campaign - Gita Bhardwaj, Chloe Cho
Parliamentary Procedures (Individual) - Robert Jacobson
8th Place
Entrepreneurship - Chris Kokkines, John Lasson, Rohan Vasudeva
Global Business - Kelsey Carido, Annie Wang, Jace White
Marketing - Nicholas McNamara, Mitchell Newman
Public Service Announcement - Anjali Parande, Aditi Ram, Mira Singh
Parliamentary Procedures (Individual) - Brandon Alpert
9th Place
Business Ethics - Terra Hemesath, Jim Ning
Impromptu Speaking - David Leshchiner
Introduction to Business Presentation - Hayden Grijnsztein, Thomas Jung, Pranav Vaswani
Introduction to Financial Math - Rahul Gupta
Publication Design - Yulia Kornikova, Hayden Lau
Other competitors included:
Accounting I - Sarah Damianov
Agribusiness - Rohan Mishra
Business Law - Dasha Russ
Computer Problem Solving - Brandon Carido
Economics - Heesung Noh
Graphic Design - Katie Cheon, Grace Lim
Health Care Administration - Margaret Kowzon
Insurance and Risk Management - Gavin Gilfand
Introduction to Business - Michael Kim
Introduction to Public Speaking - Zander Schwartz
Job Interview - Ryan Kang
Personal Finance - Joshua Lee
Securities & Investments - Keshav Trikha
Sports & Entertainment Management - Adam Waxman
Virtual Business Challenge - Hunter Matuch, Parker Wu
Website Design - Drshika Asher
Advisers for VHHS's FBLA are Tony Isabelli, Lynne Benson and Diane Phillips.
Chaperone for the trip was Mary Childers.
The Future Business Leaders of America National Competition will take place in Baltimore, Maryland - June 27 - July 1, 2018.