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Hazleton Rotary awards ‘Service Above Self’ grant to The Soul Kitchen

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Wilkes University Writer Series features three authors

<p>Fifty of MMI Preparatory School&#8217;s 75 student competitors qualified for the Pennsylvania FBLA State Leadership Conference during the recent Regional Leadership Conference competition.</p><p>The top five students in each test event advance to states and the top two students or teams in each performance event advance to the state competition, which will be held April 8-10 in Hershey. MMI Social Sciences instructor Katherine Zucco is the FBLA advisor and Flashback Cinema sponsors MMI&#8217;s FBLA chapter.</p><p>Fifteen MMI students placed first in individual or team competitions and will advance to the state competition. First-place finishers and their events are: Keefer Hoover (Accounting); Frederick Mejia (Business Calculations); Morgan Allen and Samantha Sparich (Business Ethics); Mahum Ahmed, Kelisa Hysenbegasi, and Alyssa Sweda (Emerging Business Issues); Elizabeth Borchick, Julie Amentler, and Kimberly Amentler (Graphic Design); Jayden Bonham (Intro to Business Communications); Morgan Long (Personal Finance); and David Antolick, AJ Jordan, and Christian Yamulla (Sports &amp; Entertainment Management).</p><p>Additionally, 35 students finished in the top five and will advance to the state competition.</p><p>Second-place finishers and state qualifiers are: Elliot Blasko (Communications); Rachael Betz (Intro to Business); Sydney Kohl, McKenna Gallagher, and Jacqueline Snyder (Intro to Business Presentation); Emily Ankiewicz, Adam Tron, and Katharine Pinto (Management Decision Making); and Amanda Kalada Kania (Political Science).</p><p>Third-place finishers and state qualifiers are: Alexander Kline (Business Calculations); Wesley Guarneri and Coleman Smith (Entrepreneurship); Nicholas Carrato, Marcus Kassick, and Kaitlyn McGeehan (Global Business); Carter Frask, Kai Mele, and Hugh Soltau (Marketing); and Christian Badamo (Political Science).</p><p>Fourth-place finishers and state qualifiers are: Brian Payne (Cyber Security); Zachary Young (Healthcare Administration); Ian Dewar, Matthew Marchetti, and Maxwell Santana (Hospitality Management); Kaylee Witner (Intro to Business); Hannah Falatko (Intro to Business Procedures); James Kelly (Intro to Business Math); and Andrellie Puntiel, Josue Rodriguez, and Harry Kress (Sports &amp; Entertainment Management).</p><p>Fifth-place finishers and state qualifiers are: Irene Altmiller (Advertising); Jessica McClellan (Hospitality Management); Kevin McNulty (Intro to Business Math); Olivia Bartholomew (Intro to Information Technology); and Paige Machulsky (Political Science).</p><p>Lindsay Horvat (third place in Intro to Public Speaking), Catherine Havrilla and Madyson Hornack (third place for Graphic Design) and Violet O&#8217;Connell (fourth place in Publication Design) also finished in the top five but did not qualify for the state competition.</p><style>
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MMI students qualify for state FBLA Leadership Conference