News Release
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2011
Submitted by: NFCC Office of College Advancement
Lafayette students among leaders at FBLA State Leadership Conference
MADISON, FL – Lafayette High School students returned from the 2011 Florida Future Business Leaders of America
(FBLA) State Leadership Conference with trophies in hand. Olivia Celedon, Shelby Hart and Alicia Marzloff took 1st
place in the FBLA’s Business Plan competition. Elizabeth Anderson and Bridgett Powe took 2nd place in the Business
Ethics category and Mary Thomas Hart won 3rd place in the Client Service competition. All are high school dual
enrollment students at North Florida Community College and were enrolled in NFCC’s Principles of Management
course this semester.
“This is quite an accomplishment, and we are so proud of these students,” said Lisa Hancock, FBLA Advisor
and Business & Technology Instructor at LHS.
More than 3,000 student competitors attended the state conference held April 25-28 in Orlando The
LHS/NFCC students winning 1st place and 2nd place honors – Celedon, Hart, Marzloff, Anderson and Powe – will
advance and compete at the FBLA National Leadership Conference in Orlando June 28-July 1.
FBLA is the largest student business organization in the country with over 250,000 members. Student FBLA
members benefit from leadership training, networking, and opportunities to apply their classroom instruction in
business practices and procedures to leadership development activities and competitive event experiences like those
held at the state conference.
For more information about FBLA visit http://www.floridafbla-pbl.com/. For more information about NFCC
high school dual enrollment opportunities, visit http://www.nfcc.edu/admissions/dual-enrollment or contact NFCC
Enrollment Services at (850) 973-1612 or admissions@nfcc.edu.
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