Eight Willowbrook students qualify to compete in Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference

Eight Willowbrook students have qualified to compete in the Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Leadership Conference.

Those students are:

• Senior Aaron Ball (third from left): Advanced Accounting (placed 1^st at the State Leadership Conference)
• Senior Maxwell Hirsch (fourth from left): Banking & Finance (placed 5^th at the State Leadership Conference)
• Senior Chris Nasi (fifth from left): C# Programming (placed 1^st at the State Leadership Conference)
• Seniors Charles May (not pictured), Bryan Ortiz (second from left), Ryan Perez (not pictured) and Luis Ramirez (left): Computer Animation Team (placed 2^nd at the State Leadership Conference)
• Senior Luis Ramirez (left): Computer Modeling (placed 3^rd at the State Leadership Conference)
• Senior Ryan Perez (not pictured): Linux Operating System Fundamentals (placed 3^rd at the State Leadership Conference)
• Senior Omair Mujahid (right): Network Administration Using Cisco (placed 3^rd at the State Leadership Conference)
• Senior Maxwell Hirsch (fourth from left): Personal Financial Management (placed 1^st at the State Leadership Conference)

This year’s National Leadership Conference will take place from May 4 to 8 in Texas, and the theme is “Go Beyond Your Limits.”

According to https://bpa.org, “Business Professionals of America is the nation’s leading CTSO (Career and Technical Student Organization) for students pursuing careers in business management, information technology, finance, accounting, office administration and other business-related career fields. With 45,000 members in more than 1,800 chapters across 25 states and Puerto Rico, as well as international presence in China, Haiti and Peru, BPA is an organization that supports business and information technology educators by offering co-curricular exercises based on national standards.”