Students of Kirkland’s International Community School (ICS) achieved outstanding results at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Regional Leadership Conference, held in Bellevue, Washington on February 10th.

The International Community School of Kirkland is pleased to announce the following finalists. All first through fifth place finishers are eligible to compete in the State Business Leadership Conference, held in Yakima in April.

1st place finalists

Smrithi Sukumar (freshman), of Sammamish: Business Math

Michael Chang (junior), of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team

Atul Pai (sophomore), of Kirkland: Entrepreneurship team

Amy Wang (sophomore), of Kirkland: Entrepreneurship team

Christine Yeh (sophomore), of Sammamish: Entrepreneurship team

Mihai Petruic (junior), of Redmond: Parliamentary Procedure team

Josh McMurdo (Junior) of Sammamish: Parliamentary Procedure team

DaeYoon Lee (junior), of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team

Sojung Yuk (sophomore) or Redmond: FBLA Principles and Procedures

Edward Cordell (sophomore) of Redmond: Global Business team

Kenny Drabble (sophomore) of Kirkland: Global Business team

Eric Jobes (sophomore) of Kirkland: Global Business team

Kristi Weber (sophomore) of Kirkland: Introduction to Business Communication

David Nam (junior) of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team

2nd place finalists

Aimee Hood (senior) of Redmond: Accounting I

Priya Ganesan (freshman) of Redmond, Business Math

Fiona Xue (senior) of Redmond: Business Calculations

Jeff Yu (junior) of Redmond: Economics

Alice Chang (junior) of Redmond: Emerging Business Issues team

Bryan Djunaedi (senior) of Redmond: Emerging Business Issues team

Laura Renfroe (senior) of Kirkland: Emerging Business Issues team

Olivia Kao (junior) of Redmond: Parliamentary Procedure team

Nick Rayl (junior) of Woodinville: Parliamentary Procedure team

Stanley Tan (junior) of Kirkland: Parliamentary Procedure team, Personal Finance

Kevin Zhang (junior) of Sammamish: Parliamentary Procedure team

3rd place finalists

Aimee Hood (senior) of Redmond: Global Business team

Amanda Lin (freshman) of Redmond: Business Math

Fiona Xue (senior) of Redmond: Business Communication, Global Business team

Smrithi Sukumar (freshman), of Sammamish: Business Calculations

Alice Chang (junior) of Redmond: Job Interview

Bryan Djunaedi (senior) of Redmond: Global Business team

Mihai Petruic (junior), of Redmond: Entrepreneurship team

Josh McMurdo (junior) of Sammamish: Entrepreneurship team

DaeYoon Lee (junior), of Kirkland: Entrepreneurship team

4th place finalists

Elena Good (junior) of Kirkland: Business Calculations

Michael Chang (junior), of Kirkland: Business Procedures

Jeff Yu (junior) of Redmond: Personal Finance

Jessica Jin (sophomore) of Redmond: Emerging Business Issues team

Calen Olesen (junior) of Woodinville: Emerging Business Issues team

Joyce Lin (sophomore) of Redmond: Global Business team

5th place finalists

Priya Ganesan (freshman) of Redmond: Banking and Financial Systems team

Amanda Lin (freshman) of Redmond: Banking and Financial Systems team

Aditi Renganathan (freshman) of Sammamish: Banking and Financial Systems team

Sai Paul (sophomore) of Woodinville: Business Math

Christian Kim (junior) of Kirkland: Client Service

Becky Baron (freshman) of Sammamish: Creed

Nicole Denenberg (sophomore) of Sammamish: Introduction to Technology Concepts

Lori Zebrack-Smith, FBLA advisor and math teacher at ICS remarked, “I’m very proud of all our competitors. Because ICS does not offer any business classes, students must prepare for their events by researching as much material as they can on their own in lieu of learning the concepts in class. I look forward to taking our qualifiers to Yakima in April for the State Business Leadership Conference.”

The FBLA (www.fbla-pbl.org) is a national nonprofit education association with a quarter-million students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. FBLA’s National Awards Program recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. Through state-based competition at the spring State Leadership Conferences, students compete in events testing their business knowledge and skills. Top state winners then are eligible to compete for honors at the National Leadership Conference each summer.

International Community School is a choice school, open to all students from around the Lake Washington School District, which serves students in grades 7 through 12.

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