SCRANTON, PA — At a recent conference at the University of Scranton, 35 members of the Delaware Valley High School (DVHS) Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) qualified for a state competition in Hershey, PA. 

In addition, DVHS student Vidhi Patel was voted the Region 22 president and fellow student Ava Troup was voted vice president. 

All attendees at the conference learned key leadership and business skills during educational workshops provided by the Red Cross, Wilkes Barre RailRiders and Pennsylvania Enterprise Week, an FBLA press release noted.

The state competition will be held in April.

The qualifiers from Delaware Valley High School and the events in which they qualified are as follows: 

First place 

Introduction to FBLA—Lukas Yingling

Broadcast Journalism—Anna Vogel and Bennett Nielsen

Introduction to Business Presentation—Bella Faust, Caitlin Lucian and Lexi Tsiattalos

Introduction to Public Speaking—Grace Holderith

Job Interview—Bella Como

Word Processing—Isabella DeMeo

Parliamentary Procedure—Liz Bailey, Shannon O’Leary, Carl Wallenburg, Eric Choi and Joe Benavides

Second place 

Accounting II—Luke Peereboom

Agribusiness—Savanna Van Orden

Introduction to Business Communication—Nadya Bermudez

Supply Chain Management— Vanessa Knapp

Business Ethics—Inessa Martin

Introduction to Social Media Strategy—Ella Sims

Visual Design—Kim Smyser and Emma Simmons

Client Service—Cheyenne Van Orden

Introduction to Event Planning—Kai DeSantis

Marketing—Norman Burke

Third place

Introduction to Information Technology—Dean Mieczkowski

UX Design—Bethany Lee

Help Desk—Michelle Zakarova

Fourth place 

Introduction to Financial Math—Chil Jin

Public Policy & Advocacy—Pedro Velez

Hospitality & Event Management—Anjali Udeshi

International Business—Mackenzie Flanagin and Sarah Decker

Fifth place 

Introduction to Business Concepts—Tanairi Rivera

Journalism—Kaitlin Gelardi