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 | | Submitted Photo | | Ezra-Mel Pasikatan receives the third place Business Procedures trophy from a National FBLA officer during the Awards Ceremony held at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, June 29. |
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Ezra-Mel Pasikatan, a 2008 Madras High School graduate, garnered the third place in the Business Procedures event at the 2008 Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference held in Atlanta, Ga., June 24 through 29.
MHS students Josriel Pasikatan and Megan Brown also participated in the national contest.
Pasikatan, this year's Outstanding MHS Chapter FBLA member, intended to compete in the accounting 1 category, but a teacher's suggestion changed his mind.
"One of our FBLA advisers, Mrs. Harris, persuaded me to compete in Business Procedures in addition to Accounting 1," Pasikatan reflected. He ended up winning first in Accounting 1 and fourth in Business Procedures at the Regional FBLA conference, held at MHS last spring.
At the state FBLA conference, he said, "The big surprise was when I won first place in Business Procedures."
Business Procedures is an event that tests a students' knowledge of business management, records keeping, ethics, database management and technology concepts. Pasikatan only knew that he would be competing in the nationals the last week of May.
"I wish I had had more time to prepare. I didn't have full focus because of my college preparations, scholarship search and applications, my H4 visa issues, and my fund raising. I just did what I could with the limited time. FBLA-MHS, the Rebekahs, relatives, and our neighbor helped us with some funds. My parents ended up footing the rest of the bill for me and my brother," Pasikatan said.
His brother Josriel also competed in the national contest, both last year and this year.
Pasikatan joined FBLA his sophomore year, encouraged by his dad who thought it would help him develop his leadership, organizational, and social skills.
At Clemson University in South Carolina this fall, Pasikatan plans to major in bioengineering and minor in business, and hopes to join Phi Beta Lambda, the college version of FBLA.
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(Ezra-Mel Pasikatan receives the Third Place Business Procedures trophy from a National FBLA officer during the Awards Ceremony held at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, June 29. )
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