SouthArk’s Phi Beta Lambda chapter wins big at state conference

LITTLE ROCK— Members of South Arkansas Community College’s chapter of the Phi Beta Lambda business organization won more than 50 awards at the recent 2017 FBLA-PBL Arkansas Leadership Conference here.

Winning first-place awards were Jessica Starnes (administrative technology), Yatee Mohane (computer applications), Matthew Roomsburg (help desk), Carrie Blackwell (justice administration), Grant Thornton (microeconomics), Darrell Davis (mobile app development), Alexis Tubbs (spreadsheet applications) and the team of Davec Flournoy and Christian Kidwell (computer animation).

Second-place finishers were Jessica Honeycutt (administrative technology, macroeconomics), Dioseline Guzman-Mancera (business communication), Amairany Santana (computer applications), Roomsburg (computer concepts), Victoria Blann (cost accounting), Grant Thornton (microeconomics), Jacob Wallace (networking concepts), Morris Robinson (sports management and marketing) and Clay Beck (spreadsheet applications). The teams of Adrianna Serrano and Steven Matlock (community service project); Carlitha Wafer and Amanda Brumley (local chapter annual business report); Beck, Justin Robinson and Wallace (network design); and Wafer, Brumley and GuzmanMancera (social media challenge) also took second place awards.

Taking third-place awards were Michelle Jones (client services, personal finance), Marcus Tatum (cost accounting), Jeremy Ezell (cyber security), Cynthia Landaverde (entrepreneurship concepts), Richard Dunlap (justice administration, project management), Beck (networking concepts) and Justin Robinson (programming concepts, spreadsheet applications).

Fourth-place finishers were Morgan Merriweather (business communication), Christopher White (computer concepts), Matlock (impromptu speaking), Ezell (programming concepts), Tatum (project management), Kaylee Coke (spreadsheet applications) and the team of Sheila Williams and Jamie Bolling (desktop publishing).

Fifth-place finishers were Serrano (administrative technology), Brumley (client services), Heather Johnson (organizational behavior and leadership), White (programming concepts), Coke (project management) and Mohane (spreadsheet applications).

Additionally, Jerry Langley was presented a top Arkansas PBL Business Leader award, Wafer was named Who’s Who in Arkansas PBL 2017 and advisor Donna Hendricks was named Outstanding Chapter Advisor. The SouthArk chapter was noted as the state’s largest professional division chapter and the second largest overall. It received a second-place Gold Chapter Award.

Brumley, Marcus Ford, Denise Williams and Justin Robinson were recognized as Who’s Who in PBL.

More than 30 students from the SouthArk chapter now are eligible to move on to national competition at the FBLA-PBL National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California, in June—a record for the SouthArk chapter. They will be raising funds though different projects over the next few months in order to defray costs of the trip.