Red Bank Regional (RBR) Academy of Information Technology Students were dominant in the State Future Business Leader Completions held on Feb. 18 in at the Harrah’s Conference Center in Atlantic City. Pictured are the RBR FBLA students who placed at the New Jersey States Conference: they are (left to right, front row): Devin Long, Union Beach; Zach MacLean, Union Beach; Andrew DeRose, Shrewsbury; Young Chen, Belmar; Josh Goldsmith, Little Silver; (back row) Bobby Villaluz, Shrewsbury; James Szwede, Little Silver; Chloe Sharpe, Bradley Beach; Nick Polis, Shrewsbury; Nicole Ortiz, Shrewsbury; Harry Jain, Red Bank; Andrew Schembor, Shrewsbury. Missing from the picture was Makoto Brown, Tinton falls.
Results of the areas of competition follow:
- Networking Concepts – Devin Long, , (1st), Makoto Brown, (3rd);
- Cybersecurity – James Szwede, , (2nd), Nick Polis (4th), Nicole Ortiz (5th)
- Desktop Application Programming – Andrew Schembor (2nd)
- Intro to Information Technology – Chloe Sharpe (2nd), Harry Jain (3rd), Josh Goldsmith (4th)
- Computer Problem Solving – Bobby Villaluz (3rd)
- Network Design Team – Young Chen, Andrew DeRose and Zach MacLean – 3rd.
The students are now eligible to compete in the national competition, which takes place June 29 to July 2 in Atlanta.