FBLA Students Win Awards at State Conference

Several Fox Chapel Area High School and Dorseyville Middle School students placed at the 2025 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference. Senior Gabriella Hample; junior Mikayla Feder; sophomores Aiden Drucker, Noelle Fouron, and Ainsley Goode; and eighth-graders Dyutit Patro and Anaia Shehzad won first places. Junior Michael Costello and eighth graders Zoey Liu and Maya Vyas won second places. Junior Joanna Li and eighth-graders Rishabh Krishnamurthy and Chloe Pick won third places. Juniors Zelia Herald, Zinta Jacob, and Joshua Shah and sophomore Braxton Bielawski all won fourth places. All 17 of these students qualified to participate in the FBLA National Leadership Conference that will be held in Anaheim, California, June 29-July 2.

Fox Chapel Area High School and Dorseyville Middle School state place winners in open events (not eligible for the national competition) were seniors Kai Edwards (sixth place) and Milan Golla (eighth place); junior Michael Costello (second, sixth, and seventh places); sophomore Sienna Mort (10th place); freshman Purv Patel (fourth and sixth places); eighth-graders Brooke Nalevanko (second place), Micah Ramirez (first place), and Zhiqing Hou (second place); seventh-grader Matthew Bartolacci (second place); and sixth-grader Sang Nguyen (fourth place).

Other state place winners included seniors Zoean Chittur (sixth place), Kai Edwards (sixth place), Milan Golla (seventh place), and Rachel Pegher (sixth place); sophomores Jolie Cessna (sixth place), Max Choset (fifth place), Paige Dugan (sixth place), Ella Golomb (sixth place), Joseph McGivney (fifth place), and Dashel Wilson (ninth place); freshmen Filamena LeDonne (10th place), Ava Stackhouse (10th place), Easton Ritz (10th place), Henry Sun (10th place), and Ayden Wang (10th place); seventh-graders Annon Edwards (fifth place), Charles McLaughlin (fifth place), Tucker Patsey (fifth place), and Shiva Subramanian (fifth place); and sixth-graders Oskar Guttridge (fifth place) and Sang Nguyen (fourth place).

Additionally, as part of the state leadership conference, several other awards were also given.  Junior Nicholas Krist was inducted into the National Business Honor Society. Big 33 Community Service Awards went to juniors Samantha Dinh, Nicholas Krist, and Kalsey Thom; sophomores Aiden Drucker, Sera Filar, and Ella Golomb; freshmen Andrew Dinh, Sydney Gibel, and Purv Patel; eighth-grader Rishabh Krishnamurthy; and seventh-grader Russell Gardner.  Business Achievement Awards were given to seniors Caleb Shirk and Gabriella Hample; junior Ross Calig; and sophomores Aiden Drucker, Sera Filar, Ella Golomb, and Ainsley Goode.

The Fox Chapel Area High School chapter of the FBLA also received ninth place in the Local Chapter Membership award with a total of 148 students. There are 260 active high school chapters in Pennsylvania. The Dorseyville Middle School chapter of the FBLA won third place in the Local Chapter Membership award with 37 members.  There are approximately 35 middle school chapters in the state.

The FBLA State Leadership Conference was held in Hershey, Pennsylvania, April 8 and 9. More than 6,200 students from high schools and middle schools across the state participated in the competition. 

The Fox Chapel Area High School FBLA sponsor is business education teacher Christina Congalton.