Nine CTC students take home h onors in Phi Beta Lamda State Conference competition

Metia release: Students from Chattahoochee Technical College's Marietta, North Metro and Paulding campuses competed April 8-10 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.

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.

The 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 (3^{rd place), acquiring corporate sponsors for the state conference (3rd place), local annual business report (2nd 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.}

Students from Chattahoochee Technical College placing in the competition included:

2nd Place in Free Enterprise Project-Koshia Crowe of Temple and Angelica Harris of Rockmart

3rd Place in Community Service Project- Koshia Crowe of Temple and Angelica Harris of Rockmart

1st Place-Telecommunications Richard Bellfield of Cartersville

2nd Place-Accounting Analysis and Decision Making-Keith Simmers of Dallas

2nd Place-Hospitality Management-Catherine Williams of Kennesaw

3rd-Place-Desktop Publishing-Angelica Harris of Rockmart and Cathleen Harris of Rockmart

4th Place-Macroeconomics-Angelica Harris of Rockmart

4th Place-Sales Presentation-Deborah Wilson of Mableton

5th Place-Retail Management-Heather Leuck of Douglasville

5th Place-Sports Management and Marketing-Simone Crammer of Cartersville

For more information on programs and activities at Chattahoochee Technical College, visit www.ChattahoocheeTech.edu or call 770-528-4545.