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Cartersville Students Finish in Top 10

Two Chattahoochee Technical College students from Cartersville won big at the statewide conference of Phi Beta Lambda, a division of Future Business Leaders of America.

Students from Chattahoochee Technical College’s Marietta, North Metro and Paulding campuses, including those from Cartersville, competed April 8 to 10 at the annual Phi Beta Lambda State Conference in Atlanta. Nine students from Chattahoochee Technical College took home honors at the event where they competed with more than 300 other students from other colleges and universities.

“These competitions are important to students because it allows them to showcase their skills against their peers as well as to push themselves to achieve skills that will help them be successful in the business world,” said CTC Accounting Instructor Nate Aikens. “The competitions are either written [taken on scantron] or performance based [making presentations in front of judges].”

Phi Beta Lambda, a division of Future Business Leaders of America, hosts annual state and national competitions that recognize and reward excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. Through state-based competition at the spring State Leadership Conferences, students compete against other two-year and four-year colleges and universities in events testing their business knowledge and skills. Top state winners are eligible to compete for honors at the National Leadership Conference each summer.

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The Georgia PBL State Leadership Conference showcased students competing in business related leadership events including impromptu speaking, future business executive, job interviewing, public speaking and sales presentations. Other competition areas covered topics consisting of principles of accounting for professionals, computer applications, business communication, business decision making, financial services, hospitality management, human resource management and network design.

Chattahoochee Technical College was honored with several awards of its own, including the Anna Johnson Gold Seal of Merit, which was only awarded to three colleges for outstanding contributions to Phi Beta Lambda. Additionally, the college was recognized for local recruitment (third place), acquiring corporate sponsors for the state conference (third place), local annual business report (second place) and for the largest membership increase for the 2010-2011 year. The local chapter grew from 13 to 39 students over the course of a year.

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Students from Chattahoochee Technical College placing in the competition included:

  • First Place — Telecommunications Richard Bellfield of Cartersville
  • Fifth Place in Sports Management and Marketing — Simone Crammer of Cartersville
  • Second Place in Free Enterprise Project — Koshia Crowe of Temple and Angelica Harris of Rockmart
  • Third Place in Community Service Project — Koshia Crowe of Temple and Angelica Harris of Rockmart
  • Second Place in Accounting Analysis and Decision Making — Keith Simmers of Dallas
  • Second Place in Hospitality Management — Catherine Williams of Kennesaw
  • Third-Place in Desktop Publishing — Angelica Harris of Rockmart and Cathleen Harris of Rockmart
  • Fourth Place in Macroeconomics — Angelica Harris of Rockmart
  • Fourth Place in Sales Presentation — Deborah Wilson of Mableton
  • Fifth Place in Retail Management — Heather Leuck of Douglasville


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