{"id":5366,"date":"2016-04-05T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2017-08-17T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:46:44","slug":"sau-students-win-21-awards-pbl-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2016\/sau-students-win-21-awards-pbl-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU students win 21 awards at PBL Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAU PBL Arkansas conference competition winners included those pictured, from left to right, Brenden Hoof, Will McGee, Kiley Corbitt, Joseph Atchison, Diane Latimer, Lera Black, Amy Davis, Tyler Youngblood, Gerald Plumlee, Erica Sears, Yichao Sheng.<\/p><\/div>\n

Southern Arkansas University students brought back to campus 21 awards from the annual Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) State Leadership Conference held March 31- April 2, 2016, in Little Rock.<\/p>\n

SAU Students competed in more than 50 individual and team events of various business-related areas. More than half of the competing students earned eligibility to represent SAU and the Arkansas PBL at this summer\u2019s PBL National Leadership Competition in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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The SAU award placings are as follows:<\/p>\n

First Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Accounting Analysis & Decision Making (Team)
\nJoseph Atchison, Amy Davis, Austin Taylor<\/p>\n

\u2022 Accounting for Professionals
\nAmy Davis<\/p>\n

\u2022 Forensic Accounting (Team)
\nJoseph Atchison, Justin Blann, Lillian Dougan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Marketing Analysis & Decision Making (Team)
\nSeth Barron, Cordell McDonald, Will McGee<\/p>\n

\u2022 Outstanding Local Chapter Adviser
\nDr. Gerald Plumlee<\/p>\n

Second Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Accounting for Professionals
\nJessica Hammett<\/p>\n

\u2022 Business Communications
\nThomas Quarshie<\/p>\n

\u2022 Contemporary Sports Issues
\nAric Callaway<\/p>\n

\u2022 Desktop Publishing (Team)
\nLera Black, Holly Roomsburg<\/p>\n

\u2022 Future Business Executive
\nSeth Barron<\/p>\n

\u2022 Microeconomics
\nEmily Gill<\/p>\n

\u2022 Marketing Analysis & Decision Making (Team)
\nBrenden Hoof, Erica Sears, Austin Taylor<\/p>\n

Third Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Accounting for Professionals
\nCassie Hartwick<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cost Accounting
\nDiane Latimer<\/p>\n

\u2022 Public Speaking
\nYichao Sheng<\/p>\n

Fourth Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Statistical Analysis
\nEmily Gill<\/p>\n

Fifth Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Cost Accounting
\nLillian Dougan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Contemporary Sports Issues
\nBryan Kemp<\/p>\n

\u2022 Microeconomics
\nThomas Quarshie<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sports Management & Marketing
\nAric Callaway<\/p>\n

\u2022 Largest Local Chapter Membership<\/p>\n

SAU Chapter<\/p>\n

Students eligible to represent SAU and Arkansas PBL at the National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, include Joseph Atchison, Amy Davis, Austin Taylor, Justin Blann, Lillian Dougan, Seth Barron, Cordell McDonald, Will McGee, Jessica Hammett, Thomas Quarshie, Aric Callaway, Valeriya Black, Holly Roomsburg, Emily Gill, Brenden Hoof, Erica Sears, Cassie Hartwick, and Shelly Latimer.<\/p>\n

Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) is a non-profit educational association that prepares students for careers in business and other business-related fields.<\/p>\n

The State Leadership Conference is held prior to the National Leadership Conference, which provides various opportunities for leadership development, fundraising, and corporate facility tours for participants.<\/p>\n

For more information about FBLA-PBL, visit http:\/\/www.arpbl.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southern Arkansas University students brought back to campus 21 awards from the annual Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) State Leadership Conference held March 31- April 2, 2016, in Little Rock. SAU Students competed in more than 50 individual and team events of various business-related areas. More than half of the competing students earned eligibility to represent… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[140,7753,287],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-business","8":"category-homepage","9":"category-phi-beta-lambda","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}