{"id":86565,"date":"2020-07-19T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=86565"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:04:04","slug":"delta-state-students-earn-high-marks-at-phi-beta-lambda-virtual-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2020\/07\/delta-state-students-earn-high-marks-at-phi-beta-lambda-virtual-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Students Earn High Marks at Phi Beta Lambda Virtual National Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Delta State University students earned several honors at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) national competition held virtually via video a few weeks ago.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease help me congratulate our awesome competitors,\u201d said Dr. Tomeka Harbin, PBL adviser at Delta State and chair and associate professor of management. \u201cOnce again, DSU students performed with excellence while competing against thousands across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First place: <strong>Davontre Henderson<\/strong> (sports management major) and <strong>Alexis Rover<\/strong> (elementary education major) \u2013 emerging business issues<\/li>\n<li>Sixth place: <strong>Jasmine Evans<\/strong> (psychology major) \u2013 public speaking<\/li>\n<li>Tenth place: <strong>Synethia Mathews<\/strong> (computer systems information and marketing major) and <strong>Evans <\/strong>\u2013 business presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phi Beta Lambda is the collegiate division of the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuture Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. (FBLA-PBL) is the largest career student business organization in the world,\u201d according to its website. \u201cEach year, FBLA-PBL helps over 230,000 members prepare for careers in business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Delta State University students earned several honors at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) national competition held virtually via video a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":86509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1738,2,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-college-of-business-and-aviation","category-general","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86567,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86565\/revisions\/86567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}