Heritage High School’s FBLA wins awards

ORCHARDS — Two teams from Heritage High School’s Future Business Leaders of America received awards at the FBLA National Leadership Conference, held July 2 in San Antonio. They competed against 78 teams from around the U.S. and five countries. Victoria Thornton and Elvia Santos-Dominguez placed second in a Partnership with Business Project, while Matthew Lipinski and Daniel Adams took ninth place with their American Enterprise Project. Both teams made a seven-minute presentation and wrote a 15-page report for judges regarding their collaboration with iQ Credit Union. The presentations detailed how FBLA members at Heritage High School taught their classmates about personal finance at a Financial Reality Fair.