{"id":56811,"date":"2014-07-13T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=56811"},"modified":"2014-07-12T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T15:22:59","slug":"canastota-high-school-fbla-members-attend-national-leadership-conference-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=56811","title":{"rendered":"Canastota High School FBLA Members Attend National Leadership Conference in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pictured from left are Canastota FBLA members, Julia DiVeronica, Derick Trost and Ariel Orcutt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FBLA-2014-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56812\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FBLA-2014-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"FBLA 2014 for web\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FBLA-2014-for-web.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FBLA-2014-for-web-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Canastota, NY \u2013 July 2014) More than 10,300 of America\u2019s best and brightest youth traveled to the historic city of Nashville, Tenn. to make some history of their own as they showcased their talents as future business leaders and vied for the opportunity to win over $165,000 in cash awards.<\/p>\n<p>Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL), the largest and oldest student business organization, held its National Leadership Conference in Nashville on June 29 to July 2. Participants from across the United States and two countries were in attendance for this exciting conference to sharpen their core business skills, expand their networks, and participate in more than 60 business and business-related competitive events.<\/p>\n<p>Three Canastota High School members, Derick Trost, Julia DiVeronica, and Ariel Orcutt, attended the conference with their advisor Elizabeth Garofalo.\u00a0 Becky Brothers also accompanied the group to Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>While at the conference, the Canastota members participated in competitive events, attended workshops, and served as state voting delegates in charge of electing the new national officer team.<\/p>\n<p>Julia DiVeronica represented New York State FBLA in the Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure event while Derick Trost and Ariel Orcutt represented the state in the Local Chapter Annual Report event.<\/p>\n<p>Derick Trost, a Canatota High School senior, will serve as the 2014-2015 New York State FBLA President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured from left are Canastota FBLA members, Julia DiVeronica, Derick Trost and Ariel Orcutt. (Canastota, NY \u2013 July 2014) More than 10,300 of America\u2019s best and brightest youth traveled to the historic city of Nashville, Tenn. to make some history of their own as they showcased their talents as future business leaders and vied for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}