Business Professionals of America Students Succeed at Regional Competition

The Carroll ISD Business Professionals of America chapter competed on Saturday, January 26, at Regionals at Keller High School and came away with successful results. Business Professionals of America is a national organization for middle school, high school, and college students preparing for careers in business and office occupations. The organization’s activities and programs complement classroom instruction by giving students practical experience through application of the skills learned at school. Business Professionals of America acts as a cohesive agent in the nationwide networking of education and business and industry, and is contributing to the preparation of a world-class workforce through the advancement of leadership, citizenship, academic, and technological skills. See below the list of results from the January 26 competition.

• Vansh Shah – Payroll Accounting – 2nd place
• Aarin Bindlish – Banking & Finance – 5th place
• Caitlyn Petescia – Economic Research – 3rd place
• Alina Khawaja, Gabriella Morisano & Megan Wolf – Economic Research Team – 2nd place
• Lydia Lo – Intergrated Office Applications – 3rd place
• Jenna Neves – Basic Office Systems – 3rd place
• Pooja Jayasekera – Advance Office Systems – 2nd place
• Simrun Shroff – Legal Office Procedures – 1st place
• Kendall Lyman – Medical Office Procedures – 1st place
• Sophia Polisetty – Business Law & Ethics – 1st place
• Marianna Torres – Diagnostic Coding – 1st place
• Caleb Jiang – PC Serving & Troubleshooting – 1st place
• Blake Bottum – JAVA Programming – 2nd place
• Cristina Petescia – Graphic Design Pormotion – 4th place
• Sophia Polisetty, Lydia Lo, Liz Hamel & Cristina Petescia – Website Design Team – 1st place
• Coleman Cooper, Zane Qureshi, Jenna Neves, Aanya Jayasekera – Global Marketing Team – 4th place
• Zane Qureshi – Entrepreneurship – 2nd place
• Aarin Bindlish, Roy Dhutta, Amay Ghia, Daanish Gaanshi – Small Business Management Team – 5th place
• Aanya Jayasekera – Interview Skills – State Alternate
• Uma Datta – Advance Interview Skills – 2nd Place
• Alysa Lakhani – Human Resource Mgmt – 1st Place
• Matthew Merino – Business Meeting Management – 1st Place

Students from Carroll High School and Carroll Senior High School will be attending the Business Professionals of America 2019 State Leadership Conference March 6-9 in Dallas.  The Carroll ISD chapter members will join over 2,800 other conference delegates from across the state to participate in state level business skill competitions, general sessions, and the state officer candidate campaigns and elections.

“Students from the Texas Association’s Regional Leadership Conference have qualified to participate at the state level conference. The conference emphasizes business workforce education and training which members of the local chapter of Business Professionals of America at Carroll have received,” said Carroll ISD chapter advisor Kim Goodman.  In addition to the qualifying events, members have also been working together to compete the BPA Torch Awards Program.  This program is designed to promote professionalism, leadership and personal growth in seven different categories.  “Last year, and again this year, our members have successfully complete the tasks to meet the requirement for the Statesman award at State Leadership Conference.  I am very proud of their commitment and accomplishments in our second year as a BPA chapter.”