Business students honored

■ Alpharetta High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter sent 61 students to compete at the FBLA National Leadership Conference in Chicago. Twenty-eight made the stage as top 10 finalists in 19 different events. Alpharetta had four first-place finishes: Andrew Fu for business calculations; Josh Seides and Gavin Ng for community service project; Rohan Raina, Jeffrey Zhang and Bennett Zhu for computer gaming and simulation programming; and Apurva Gundaria, who won the prestigious Future Business Leader award. It was only the second time a Georgia high school has won this many awards. The number of students from Alpharetta High School competing and winning both set records for Georgia FBLA.

■ These Atlanta-area students won top awards at the recent SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, where more than 6,000 high school and college students competed in 100 occupational and leadership events. Michael Harris and Cory Way from Atlanta Technical College won the college silver medal in digital cinema production; Thelma Clark-Thomas from Georgia Piedmont Technical College won the college gold medal in employment application process; Donnell Williams, William Roblero and Angel Leon from Cross Keys High School in Atlanta won the high school gold medal in occupational health and safety – single; Rosa Bello-Aguilera from Cross Keys won the high school bronze medal in outstanding chapter; and Peterson Cheridor, Sakima Cauthen and Melinda Johnson from Georgia Piedmont Technical College won the college bronze medal in career pathways, business, management and technology.

■ Three students received awards at the College of Arts and Sciences 2015 Honors Ceremony at Georgia State University. Manuel Solomon of Atlanta received the Anne M. Eaton Endowed Scholarship, which recognizes an outstanding gerontology graduate student, with special preference given to students age 40 or older. The scholarship honors alumna Anne Eaton, who was a part of the first class of gerontology graduates in 1977. Victoria Lang of Newnan received the George Greiff Scholarship, given to a journalism undergraduate or graduate student in honor of former Georgia State journalism professor George Greiff. Kelsey Schwarz of Atlanta received the Jacqueline Boles Graduate Teaching Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding sociology graduate instructors and is in honor of Jackie Boles, a sociology faculty member of more than 30 years.