A State Leadership Conference (SLC) for the entire state of Georgia’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) program took place in Athens, GA this month. The conference’s objective is to provide high school students with opportunities to compete with students from the entire state in business events and to attend informative workshops. The conference also hosts the yearly elections for Georgia’s FBLA officers. This conference allows students to test their skills and prepares them for college and their future career.

The biggest event was the farewell speech from the Georgia State FBLA president, Royce Dickerson. Royce is a Lambert High School student who won the election for President, the highest position, at last year’s conference. Royce is a senior and will be graduating at the end of the school year, leaving FBLA. Royce Dickerson said about FBLA in an interview, “it has changed my life. I love FBLA and all the chances they gave me to compete, travel, network, and have fun.” Mrs. Fagan, The Lambert FBLA director feels that the conference “was the highlight of my career. Seeing Royce up on stage and give his farewell speech was truly wonderful.”

The conference includes over 65 competitive events. It challenges students in business skills and teaches them how to network, both on a state and even national level. It inspires students by giving them so many opportunities in diverse areas that they might excel. The SLC is helping shape and improve the future leaders of the country and the world.

During the conference several awards were handed out to Lambert’s FBLA and many of its members:

Lambert FBLA received Gold Chapter – Superior rating and was awarded 2^nd Place for Chapter of the Year.

Royce Dickerson gave his final farewell as Georgia FBLA State President.

Mrs. Jager was awarded New Adviser of the Year!

Lambert received Largest Local Chapter “ever” in the history of Georgia FBLA with 519 members!

1^st Place in E-business

Sudeep Annem

Abhideep Budda

2^nd Place in Accounting II

Stuart Reese

2^nd Place in Agribusiness

Maggie Baxter

2^nd Place in Business Law

D J Barber

2^nd Place in Future Business Leader

Royce Dickerson

2^nd Management Decision Making

Royce Dickerson

Sai Kilaru

Sayuj Shajith

2^nd Place in Networking Concepts

Hunter Lee

3^rd Place in Accounting II

Molly Williams

3^rd Place in Agribusiness

Lucia Morris

3^rd Place in Healthcare Administration

Nicole Mistry

3^rd Place in Management Information Systems

Allen Seo

Darren Yu – individual (7^th)

4^th Place in Business Law

Andrew Hama

4^th Place in Computer Problem Solving

Hunter Lee

5^th Place in Business Plan

Justin Ahn

Mehul Kumar

Nikhil Reddy

5^th Place in Entrepreneurship

D J Barber (super team)

6^th Place in Management Decision Making

Jordan Baker – individual qualifier

Ishaan Bhasin

7^th Place in Intro to Business Procedures

Corbin Fricker

7^th Place in Management Decision Making

Katie Anderson

Maxwell Kimble

8^th Place in Accounting II

Carina Hernandez

9^th Place in Accounting I

Ben Spitzer

10^th Banking & Financial Systems

Sheza Chaudhry – individual qualifier

Esha Patra – individual qualifier

10^th Intro to Business Communication

Erin Kim