STARKVILLE, Miss.--Two Golden Triangle seniors at Mississippi State are Top 10 winners in competition sponsored by the world's largest business career student organization.
Honors to Devan L. Boatner of Starkville and Jessica A. Hill of West Point came at the recent 2009 Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, Calif.
Both technology teacher education/business technology majors at the university, they placed eighth in the team event of the human resource management category. Hill also took sixth place in individual challenges of the digital video production category.
The university's chapter of the organization was established in 1967 and is sponsored by the department of instructional systems and workforce development. Assistant professor Teri Brandenburg is chapter adviser.
Headquartered in Reston, Va., FBLA-PBL membership includes more than 240,000 high school-university students, as well as some 11,000 advisers. The non-profit organization works to "bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs."
Boatner is the daughter of Kevin and Terri Tate Boatner; Hill, the daughter of John and Jerlene Hill.
For more information about the FBLA-PBL organization, visit http://www.fbla-pbl.org; on the campus chapter, www.msstate.edu/org/pbl/links.htm.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.
