{"id":594,"date":"2019-04-30T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=594"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:30:45","slug":"jones-college-pbl-students-head-to-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-pbl-students-head-to-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹ֱ²¥ PBL students head to national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE- Fourteen of the fifteen Â鶹ֱ²¥ students that competed in the Phi Beta Lambda business honor society\u2019s State competition in Columbus, Mississippi, came home, winners. They either placed first or second in their competitive events, qualifying them for the national competition in June, in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>During the three-day conference, each student competed in two, business-related events. The events ranged from accounting principles and entrepreneurship concepts, to computer programming and network design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirteen of the students will be going to the four-day national conference and competition in San Antonio,\u201d said Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s PBL Advisor, David Ray. \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to a strong showing at nationals this summer. This group has a lot of potential to place nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tara Williamson of Mendenhall earned first place honors in both the Computer Applications and the Hospitality Management competitions. Colby Dorsey of Woodville earned first place honors in Computer Concepts. Ellisville\u2019s Dylan Meeks earned first place in Sports Management &amp; Marketing, and second place in the Contemporary Sports Issues category.\u00a0 The team of Colby Dorsey, Trent Norris of Seminary and Grant Valverde of Enterprise earned second place in the Network Design team\u00a0competition. \u00a0The team consisting of Owen Cote of Sumrall, Daniel Easley of Laurel, and Tyler Rouse of Lucedale took home first place in the Management Analysis &amp; Decision Making team category and second place in the Financial Analysis &amp; Decision Making team competition. Sumrall\u2019s Kaleb Ashmore earned first place honors in the Programming Concepts competition and second place in the Computer Applications category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Columbia\u2019s Alyssa Pearce took home second place in the Job Interview category and third place in the Marketing Analysis &amp; Decision Making competition. Zachory Busby of Soso landed in second place in the Help Desk competition and third place in the Information Management category. Hattiesburg\u2019s Stephen Grantham received second place for his efforts in the Programming Concepts competition. Finishing in third place were Trent Norris in the Help Desk competition and Melissa Hankins of Laurel in the Accounting competition. However, Hankins took top honors in the Entrepreneurship Concepts competition. Ellisville\u2019s Emily Youngblood earned second place in the Macroeconomics competition and Byron Pittman of Ellisville earned fourth place in the Information Management category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pbl-state-pic-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pbl-state-pic-1-918x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pbl-state-pic-1-918x1024.jpeg 918w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pbl-state-pic-1-269x300.jpeg 269w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pbl-state-pic-1-768x856.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pbl-state-pic-1.jpeg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE- Fourteen of the fifteen Â鶹ֱ²¥ students that competed in the Phi Beta Lambda business honor society\u2019s State competition in Columbus, Mississippi, came home, winners. They either placed first or second in their competitive events, qualifying them for the national competition in June, in San Antonio, Texas. During the three-day conference, each student competed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-pbl-students-head-to-national-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Â鶹ֱ²¥ PBL students head to national competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}