Three students from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts earned recognition at the 2023 FBLA National Leadership Conference that was held June 26-30 in Atlanta.
The team of Meera Patel of Hot Springs and Kelvin Orduna of Huntsville won eighth place in the Website Design category. Sarah Pham of Hot Springs won 10th place in the Introduction to Financial Math competition. Patel, Orduna and Pham qualified for the national competition by winning first place in their respective categories at Arkansas’ FBLA State Conference in April.
Karilynn Arellan of Mineral Springs represented Arkansas as a state officer at the national conference. She will serve as Arkansas District IV Vice President during the upcoming school year. She also competed in the Introduction to FBLA event at the conference. Kiley Barton of Sims competed in the Economics category at the national conference.
The competitions are either an objective subject test, a performance/product event or a combination of both a test and performance/product event. The national conference was attended by more than 13,000 members, advisers and guests.