{"id":113029,"date":"2026-02-13T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113029\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:56:14","slug":"carbondale-area-fbla-members-compete-in-regional-leadership-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113029\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale Area FBLA members compete in Regional Leadership Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carbondale Area Junior\/Senior High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) competed Jan. 9 at the Regional Leadership Conference at the University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Following a dominant performance with 19 first-place finishes, 40 students officially qualified to represent Carbondale Area at the State Leadership Workshop in Hershey in April.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The three Serkosky siblings achieved all first-place finishes in their respective events and will be attending the state competition in April. From left: Claire Serkosky, Matthew Serkosky and Evan Serkosky. (Submitted)\" width=\"2420\" height=\"452\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAV-L-CARBFBLA-0212-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1549325\" \/>The three Serkosky siblings achieved all first-place finishes in their respective events and will be attending the state competition in April. From left: Claire Serkosky, Matthew Serkosky and Evan Serkosky. (Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>The three Serkosky siblings, Claire Serkosky, Matthew Serkosky and Evan Serkosky, notably achieved first-place finishes in their respective events and will be attending the state competition.<\/p>\n<p>The following students finished in the top three in their respective categories:<\/p>\n<p>First place: Landon Rivera, Agribusiness; Avery Galinsky and Zachary Tarchak, Banking and Financial Systems; Taylor Corrigan, Business Communication; Matthew Serkosky; Business Law; Alyssa Cotter and Anna Pauswinski, Business Management; Gianna Perry, Customer Service; Jakub Marecki, Cyber Security; Emily Grover, Healthcare Administration; Bella Kelsch, Introduction to Business Concepts; Claire Serkosky, Introduction to Business Procedures; Evan Serkosky, Introduction to Information Technology; Mitchell Masco, Introduction to Marketing Concepts; Lizmarie Graham Cruz, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure; Lily Burns, Introduction to Retail Merchandising; Aiden Mannis, Personal Finance; Ashleigh Arnese, Public Administration and Management; Ella Casper, Real Estate; Lyssa Durkin, Retail Management, and William Murphy, Securities and Investment.<\/p>\n<p>Second place: Gigi Granville and Peyton Spall, Business Management; Olivia Lawler, Customer Service; Madelena Zaccone, Healthcare Administration; Lily Thornton and Chloe Yoskowitz, Hospitality and Event Management; Serenity Eakle- Introduction to Business Concepts; Gracie McDermott, Introduction to Business Procedures; Sean Surace, Introduction to Information Technology; Bella Tomasetti, Introduction to Marketing Concepts; Korynn Durkin, Introduction to Retail and Merchandising; Owen Kovaleski, Introduction to Supply Chain Management; Abby Carachilo, Personal Finance; Mason Nepa, Public Administration and Management; Kymara McGann, Retail Management, and Alexander Mackey, Securities and Investment.<\/p>\n<p>Third place:\u00a0Macey Loughney, Introduction to Business Concepts; Maureen Newcomb, Personal Finance, and Olivia Conserette, Retail Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carbondale Area Junior\/Senior High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) competed Jan. 9 at the Regional Leadership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3099,3101,201,28,178,180,179,3098,3053,17677],"class_list":{"0":"post-113029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-carbondale","9":"tag-fell-township","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news","15":"tag-upvalley","16":"tag-valley-advantage","17":"tag-valley-advantage-school-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}