Students of Kirkland’s International Community School (ICS) achieved outstanding results at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Regional Leadership Conference, held in Bellevue, Washington on February 10th.
The International Community School of Kirkland is pleased to announce the following finalists. All first through fifth place finishers are eligible to compete in the State Business Leadership Conference, held in Yakima in April.
1st place finalists
Smrithi Sukumar (freshman), of Sammamish: Business Math
Michael Chang (junior), of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team
Atul Pai (sophomore), of Kirkland: Entrepreneurship team
Amy Wang (sophomore), of Kirkland: Entrepreneurship team
Christine Yeh (sophomore), of Sammamish: Entrepreneurship team
Mihai Petruic (junior), of Redmond: Parliamentary Procedure team
Josh McMurdo (Junior) of Sammamish: Parliamentary Procedure team
DaeYoon Lee (junior), of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team
Sojung Yuk (sophomore) or Redmond: FBLA Principles and Procedures
Edward Cordell (sophomore) of Redmond: Global Business team
Kenny Drabble (sophomore) of Kirkland: Global Business team
Eric Jobes (sophomore) of Kirkland: Global Business team
Kristi Weber (sophomore) of Kirkland: Introduction to Business Communication
David Nam (junior) of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team
2nd place finalists
Aimee Hood (senior) of Redmond: Accounting I
Priya Ganesan (freshman) of Redmond, Business Math
Fiona Xue (senior) of Redmond: Business Calculations
Jeff Yu (junior) of Redmond: Economics
Alice Chang (junior) of Redmond: Emerging Business Issues team
Bryan Djunaedi (senior) of Redmond: Emerging Business Issues team
Laura Renfroe (senior) of Kirkland: Emerging Business Issues team
Olivia Kao (junior) of Redmond: Parliamentary Procedure team
Nick Rayl (junior) of Woodinville: Parliamentary Procedure team
Stanley Tan (junior) of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team, Personal Finance
Kevin Zhang (junior) of Sammamish: Parliamentary Procedure team
3rd place finalists
Aimee Hood (senior) of Redmond: Global Business team
Amanda Lin (freshman) of Redmond: Business Math
Fiona Xue (senior) of Redmond: Business Communication, Global Business team
Smrithi Sukumar (freshman), of Sammamish: Business Calculations
Alice Chang (junior) of Redmond: Job Interview
Bryan Djunaedi (senior) of Redmond: Global Business team
Mihai Petruic (junior), of Redmond: Entrepreneurship team
Josh McMurdo (junior) of Sammamish: Entrepreneurship team
DaeYoon Lee (junior), of Kirkland: Entrepreneurship team
4th place finalists
Elena Good (junior) of Kirkland: Business Calculations
Michael Chang (junior), of Kirkland: Business Procedures
Jeff Yu (junior) of Redmond: Personal Finance
Jessica Jin (sophomore) of Redmond: Emerging Business Issues team
Calen Olesen (junior) of Woodinville: Emerging Business Issues team
Joyce Lin (sophomore) of Redmond: Global Business team
5th place finalists
Priya Ganesan (freshman) of Redmond: Banking and Financial Systems team
Amanda Lin (freshman) of Redmond: Banking and Financial Systems team
Aditi Renganathan (freshman) of Sammamish: Banking and Financial Systems team
Sai Paul (sophomore) of Woodinville: Business Math
Christian Kim (junior) of Kirkland: Client Service
Becky Baron (freshman) of Sammamish: Creed
Nicole Denenberg (sophomore) of Sammamish: Introduction to Technology Concepts
Lori Zebrack-Smith, FBLA advisor and math teacher at ICS remarked, “I’m very proud of all our competitors. Because ICS does not offer any business classes, students must prepare for their events by researching as much material as they can on their own in lieu of learning the concepts in class. I look forward to taking our qualifiers to Yakima in April for the State Business Leadership Conference.”
The FBLA (www.fbla-pbl.org) is a national nonprofit education association with a quarter-million students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. FBLA’s National Awards Program recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. Through state-based competition at the spring State Leadership Conferences, students compete in events testing their business knowledge and skills. Top state winners then are eligible to compete for honors at the National Leadership Conference each summer.
International Community School is a choice school, open to all students from around the Lake Washington School District, which serves students in grades 7 through 12.
