Five Willowbrook students qualify for 2019 BPA National Leadership Conference

Pictured are Willowbrook students who recently competed in the Business Professionals of America (BPA) State competition. They are (from left) junior Jack Carey, senior Ashish Satsangi, senior Tomas Pelesinas, senior Kianna Becker, senior Alban Shameti, sophomore Talha Ali, senior Daniel Leskiewicz and sophomore Michael Elvery. Leskiewicz, Satsangi, Elvery, Ali and senior Samuel Munoz (not pictured) qualified to compete at the 2019 BPA National Leadership Conference, which will take place from May 1 to 5 in California.

Five Willowbrook students have qualified to compete at the 2019 Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Leadership Conference.

That event will take place from May 1 to 5 in California, and this year’s theme is “Together We Create.” Students who will compete are:

• Senior Daniel Leskiewicz: Systems Administration Using Cisco® (placed 4th at State) and C++ Programming (placed 5th at State)
• Senior Ashish Satsangi: Visual Basic/C# Programming (placed 5th at State)
• Sophomore Michael Elvery: Visual Basic/C# Programming (placed 4th at State)
• Sophomore Talha Ali: Computer Modeling (placed 2nd at State) and Visual Basic/C# Programming (placed 3rd at State)
• Senior Samuel Munoz: C++ Programming (placed 3rd at State)

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.”