February 15, 2012 - Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos delivered a proclamation to student members of North Springs Charter High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) organization, announcing the week of February 13-17, 2012, as FBLA Week in Sandy Springs.
FBLA members then escorted the mayor through the Career, Technology and College Fair, taking place in the school’s gymnasium and organized by North Springs’ Career Technology Education (CTE) Department with help from FBLA, one of several national student organizations within the CTE department.
At North Springs, 111 students participate in FBLA. Nationally, Future Business Leaders of America has over a quarter million members preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. In Georgia, over 27,000 high school members make FBLA the largest student organization in the state.
Every March, FBLA students compete at the State Leadership Conference testing their business knowledge and skills in many different events. Fourteen North Springs' students will be competing for a chance to represent NSCHS at nationals being held in Texas this summer.
According to FBLA advisers Chris English and Dale Simpson, “North Springs has been proud to have had national FBLA competitors in the past and this year we fully expect several of our students to do very well at the state level and go on to nationals.”
“We’re also proud and appreciative of the Mayor and the City of Sandy Springs for recognizing the importance of FBLA and honoring this student organization with a week of its own, “added English.
The FBLA concept was developed in 1937 by Dr. Hamden L. Forkner of Columbia University; the first high school chapter was chartered in Johnson City, Tennessee on February 3, 1942.
