Mount Pleasant High School took 37 students to Region 8 on January 21st for the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Area VI Leadership Conference. All 37 have advanced on to the State Leadership Conference March 3-5 in Houston. MPHS Students earned nine 1st Places, three 2nd Places and four 3rd Places.

Teams earning 1st place were the Digital Video Production Team of Nadieska Oviedo and Leivy Zuniga; the Graphic Design Team of Alicengrace Gray and Madison McDaniel; the Marketing Team of Saray Belmonte, Maria Zuniga and Osbaldo Torres; the Public Service Announcement Team of Gavin Dethrow, Mayra Villarruel and Sergio Zambrano; the Publication Design Team of Victor Le and Jajayra Zuniga; and the Social Media Team of Carina Campos, Alyson Cortez and Urub Latif.

Individuals earning 1st place were Tyler Godfrey in Personal Finance, Michelle Gonzalez in Job Interview and Kerry Harper in Sales Presentation.

Teams taking 2nd Place were the the Entrepreneurship – Team One of Lisa Ibarra and Jorge Tamayo and the Sports and Entertainment Management of Abigail Amerson, Kenzie Messer and Nachyna Rogers. Abraham Cruz earned 2nd Place in Business Law.

Third Places were earned by the Entrepreneurship – Team Two of Juan Cardona and Eric Vasquez and by Kara Brewer in Client Services, Omar Ramirez in Impromptu Speaking, and Lucero Rocha in Accounting II.

Others placing and advancing to state competition were: the Sports and Entertainment Management – Team One of Nayeli Fuentes and Dexter Roberson (4th Place), Angel Araiza in Economics (4th Place), David Robles in Introduction to Financial Math (4th Place), Itzamari Vargas in Introduction to Business Communications (5th Place), Maria Gomez in Accounting I (6th Place),
Daniel Landaverde in Introduction to Financial (6th Place), and, Sanum Shahid in Introduction to Financial Math (6th Place).

Pictured: The Mount Pleasant High School GBLA Team. All advanced to State Competition.