Willowbrook hosts State send-off celebration for 11 members of the BPA Team

 

Pictured are members of the Willowbrook Business Professionals of America (BPA) Team who competed in the State competition, which took place from March 1 to 3. They are (from left) senior Sheharyar Ahmed, senior Ethan Rojek, senior Kiran Pentela, senior Catherine Carey, senior Taha Akhtar, senior Steven Cerda-Sanchez, sophomore Jack Carey, senior Ammar Waheed, junior Tomas Pelesinas and senior Millie Zachariah. Not pictured is senior Nicholas Johnson. Willowbrook hosted a State send-off celebration for those students on March 1.

On March 1, Willowbrook hosted a State send-off celebration for 11 members of the school’s Business Professionals of America (BPA) Team, who competed in the State competition. That event took place from March 1 to 3 at DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Oak Brook.

Those students are listed below, along with the events in which they will compete.

  • Senior Steven Cerda-Sanchez: Advanced Accounting
  • Senior Sheharyar Ahmed: Economic Research Individual and C++ Programming
  • Senior Kiran Pentela: Intermediate Word Processing and Computer Network Technology
  • Senior Taha Akhtar: Database Applications and C++ Programming
  • Senior Millie Zachariah: Administrative Support Research Project
  • Sophomore Jack Carey: ICD-10 Diagnostic Coding
  • Senior Nicholas Johnson: Systems Administration Using Cisco® and Java Programming
  • Senior Ethan Rojek: Computer Security and Visual Basic/C# Programming
  • Senior Ammar Waheed: SQL Database Fundamentals
  • Senior Catherine Carey: Fundamental Desktop Publishing and Digital Publishing
  • Junior Tomas Pelesinas: Digital Publishing

For more information about BPA, go to www.bpa.org. According to the website, “(BPA) is the premier CTSO (Career and Technical Student Organization) for students pursuing careers in business management, information technology, finance, office administration and other related career fields. With 45,000 members in more than 1,800 chapters across 25 states and Puerto Rico, BPA is a co-curricular organization that supports business and information technology educators by offering co-curricular exercises based on national standards.”