HOMESTEAD FBLA SHINES AT THE 2019 BAY SECTION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Cupertino, California – Homestead High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) started the year with a victory at the 2019 Bay Section Leadership Conference (BSLC). Hosted at Westmoor High School, in Daly City, CA, on February 9, 2019, the Bay Section Leadership Conference is an annual competition where students from 25 high schools and 4 middle schools across the Bay Area display their knowledge of business topics through competing in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, and public speaking. Out of the 119 students competing, 81 students placed in the top 10 and a total of 14 first places out of 38 competitions. 65 Homestead students qualified to compete at the State Leadership Conference which will be held in Sacramento, CA from April 25-28.
Homestead FBLA also congratulates Roma Bedekar, who was voted onto the 2019-2020 Bay Section officer team as Bay Section President and Darren Hsing who was voted to be Vice-President Outreach.
VP of Technology Competitions, Darren Hsing expresses his gratitude:
“Bay Section was a phenomenal experience not only because of the spectacular achievements by our competitors, but because everyone was reunited as a chapter. I am truly honored to see everyone’s hard work and dedication pay off. I am also extremely proud of each and every one of our competitors. I look forward to seeing our competitors excel at the State Leadership Conference in April.”
The conference runs on a point system where first place winners receive 10 points, second place receives 9 points, and all the consecutive places after receive a point decrease up to tenth place. This year, in comparison to the other competitive high schools, Henry M. Gunn High School received 141 points, Monta Vista High School received 178 points, Cupertino High School received 210 points, and Lynbrook High School received 256 points. For the 22nd consecutive year, Homestead High School placed 1st in sweepstakes earning an astonishing 476 points and 62 members advancing to the State Leadership Conference in Sacramento, CA.
Homestead FBLA attributes its continued success to all the advisers, mentors, and officers who dedicated their time and effort toward helping Homestead competitors prepare. We sincerely thank the following: advisers Helen Carlson, Byron Lee, and Graeme Logie; mentors Rita Allen, Jane Babicz, Matthew Chuckran, Greg Giglio, Mrs. Christy Heaton, Esther Heller, Braden Holstege, Laurie Iwami, Naomi Jung, Richard Knapp, Nathan Lee, Nancy Liao, Visish Srinivasan, Mark Sagherian, Alissa Song, Aria Srinivasan, and competitions officers Zibaa Adil, Darren Hsing, and Kelly Mao.
The following is a list of Homestead’s placings:
| ACCOUNTING I (Top 6)
2nd Place- Emily Yao* 3rd Place- Justin Truong * 4th Place- Karen Li* 5th Place- Michael Chang * 7th Place- Teia Chou 1st Place- Noa Bronicki* 4th Place- Karen Li * 6th Place- Emily Yao* 9th Place- Justin Truong 6th Place- Brian Sun* 10th Place- Zibaa Adil 2nd Place- Pooja Kotha, Emma Lu, Ananya Srivatsan * 1st Place- Tara Joseph* 10th Place- David Zhao 1st Place- Rose Chan* 2nd Place- Calix Tang * 4th Place- Emma Lu* 6th Place- Hansel Desouza* 1st Place- Elizabeth Chien* 4th Place- Alexander Choi* 5th Place- Akshat Jain* 6th Place- Divya Rajagopalan * 7th Place- Eylam Tagor * 8th Place- Mason Wong 1st Place- Manisha Srivatsan * 5th Place- Rominna Sharifi * 7th Place- Kevin Rossel 5th Place- Allison Park 7th Place- Kevin Chu 1st Place- Samyak Jain* 5th Place- Stephanie Hsing * 8th Place- Bryan Ham 7th Place- Gloria Zhang* 8th Place- Han Lee * 1st Place- Roma Bedekar, Valerie Hu, Massimiliano Lucas * 1st Place- Ritu Channagiri * 6th Place- Mayuri Hebbar, Clarissa Gao, Neeti Indiresan * 4th Place- Christina Park * 8th Place- Kaushal Raghu 9th Place- Swati Pothukuchi 2nd Place- Kelly Mao, Benjamin Gu, Nadya Svidzerskaya * |
IMPROMPTU SPEAKING (Top 2)
2nd Place- Ritu Channagiri * 4th Place- Cynthia Wang * 6th Place- Elizabeth Chien * 9th Place- Tishani Weerasuriya 10th Place- Andra Liu 7th Place- Joseph Huang * 1st Place- Coline Luo* 2nd Place- Calix Tang * 4th Place- Allison Park* 5th Place- Martin Wu* 1st Place- Jennifer Lee * 10th Place- Darius Wang 1st Place- David Zhao * 2nd Place- Hansel Desouza * 1st Place- Ayush Satyavapru * 2nd Place- Samarth Shah * 7th Place- Kevin Chu * 7th Place- Peri Plantenberg 7th Place- Melody Chou 9th Place- Akhil Sanka 10th Place- Zibaa Adil, Ashley Hutchinson, Darren Hsing 3rd Place- Laeticia Yang, Gloria Zhang, Sahiti Kadiyala * 3rd Place- Lynn Huang, Aishwaria Rangaswamy, Lydia Huang, Christine Yang, Eileen Kim * 2nd Place- Osman Wong * 6th Place- Vineet Chinthakindi* 7th Place- Akshat Jain * 5th Place- Rafeh Muzaffar 2nd Place- Max Fermin * 1st Place- Osman Wong * (Top 6) 2nd Place- Michael Wallerius, Taner Karaaslan, Smera Doshi * 1st Place- Kevin Ham * 8th Place- Surya Shivakumar 9th Place- Junghwa Yoo 3rd Place- Christine Yang * 9th Place- Pranav Kulkarni 10th Place- Aditya Senthivel |
*indicate the members who will be advancing to SLC