17 CSISD students qualify for Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference
April 10, 2024–Seventeen CSISD high school students qualified for the Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Leadership Conference following the BPA State Conference held Feb. 28-March 2 in Corpus Christi. In addition, seven individuals and seven teams qualified for nationals as alternates.
Students from College Station High School students participated in the Business Professionals of America State Conference held Feb. 28-March 2 in Corpus Christi.
College Station High School senior Armaan Gilani received the BPA Statesmen Torch Award and a $750 scholarship; A&M Consolidated High School senior Amy Chae performed duties as the outgoing Regional President; and A&M Consolidated junior Akash Agarwal, seniors Cayden Schupp, Hannah Sanchez-Owsik, and Serenity Leon served as voting delegates.
The following CSISD students qualified for the BPA National Leadership Conference to be held May 10-14 in Chicago, Illinois:
NATIONAL QUALIFIERS
Deepta Bharani, College Station
First Place: Digital Media Production
Devkumar Banerjee, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Linux OS Fundamentals
Amy Chae, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Health Research Presentation
Andrew Li, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Presentation Individual
Kelly Ding, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Legal Office Systems
Giancarlo Valladarez, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Business Law & Ethics
Ethan Wang, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Prepared Speech
Brent Butler, College Station
Second Place: Advanced Interview Skills
Margaret Whitten, A&M Consolidated
Second Place: Intermediate Word Processing
Chloe Tran, College Station
Third Place: Basic Office Systems and Procedure
Yashasvi Singh, College Station
Third Place: Digital Media Production
Abigail Yao, A&M Consolidated
Third Place: Intermediate Word Processing
Allen Li, College Station
Fourth Place: C++ Programming
Jaeda Mitchell, A&M Consolidated
Fourth Place: Intermediate Word Processing
Cayden Schupp, A&M Consolidated
Sixth Place: Business Law & Ethics
Arfa Sunesara, College Station
Sixth Place: Medical Coding
Aliyan Umatiya, College Station
Sixth Place: Banking and Finance
NATIONAL ALTERNATES
Reagan Hughes, A&M Consolidated
Fourth Place: Health Research Presentation
Sreeram Shankar and Steve Reddy, College Station
Fifth Place: Visual Design Team
Aymaan Momin, College Station
Fifth Place: Economic Research Individual
Joseph Ha, A&M Consolidated
Sixth Place: Human Resource Management
Andrew Li and Samita Shankar, A&M Consolidated
Sixth Place: Economic Research Team
Rachel Kumar, Serenity Leon and Kayley Sze, A&M Consolidated
Sixth Place: Administrative Support Team
Devkumar Banerjee, Nicolas Ladendorf, Samuel Seyer and Kevin Yang, A&M Consolidated
Sixth Place: Network Design Team
Akash Agarwal, A&M Consolidated
Seventh Place: Medical Coding
Kevin Yang, A&M Consolidated
Eighth Place: C++ Programming
Nicolas Ladendorf, A&M Consolidated
Eighth Place: Python Programming
Yasmin Amadu, Chloe Choi, Katerina McCaskill and Andrea Salgado Soto, A&M Consolidated
Eighth Place: Global Marketing Team
Lena Abdelwahed, Jumana Alani, Arfa Sunesara, Anika Tashin and Janelle Wange, College Station
Sixth Place: Parliamentary Procedures Team
The following students participated in Open Event Contests. Open Event Contests are tests that students can take for recognition but are not eligible for advancement to national competition:
OPEN EVENT CONTESTS
Nicholas Howard, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Digital Marketing Concepts
Fourth Place: Digital Communication & Design Concepts
Pulun Zhou, College Station
Third Place: Health Administration Concepts
Gideon Ong, A&M Consolidated
First Place: Management Marketing and HR Concepts
Fifth Place: Financial Math & Analysis Concepts
Fifth Place: Meeting and Event Planning Concepts
Fifth Place: Parliamentary Procedure Concepts
Devkumar Banerjee, A&M Consolidated
Fifth Place: Information Technology Concepts
Derek Nguyen, College Station
Fifth Place: Administrative Support Concepts
Allen Li, College Station
Fifth Place: Computer Programming Concepts
BPA advisors for A&M Consolidated are Dawson Deere and Kathy Fischer; advisors for College Station are Chenika Brooke and Kelly Yates.