Thirteen Fairfax County Public Schools students earned top-15 finishes at the 2026 Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, competing against more than 13,400 students from nearly 2,100 schools across 47 states, territories and Canada.

The results, announced by FCPS on Tuesday, included two first-place national titles: Ishaan Shukla of Chantilly High School won Public Administration and Management and Sahas Reddy of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology took Computer Problem Solving. Michael Mafanire of TJHSST placed second in Journalism.

No McLean or Langley pyramid students were among the 13 honorees. But McLean High School runs its own FBLA chapter, sponsored by Sandra Beyer, and the district showed depth at the state level: 26 FCPS students won first-place awards at the Virginia FBLA State Leadership Conference in Reston earlier this year, with more than 90 qualifying for nationals.

TJHSST led the district's national delegation with six students recognized across five events, including sixth-place finishes in International Business and Project Management. Robinson Secondary School sent five students who placed in Mobile Application Development (fifth), Computer Game and Simulation Programming (sixth) and Technology Support and Services (seventh). Rocky Run Middle School's Krish Mathuria reached the top 15 in Exploring Management and Entrepreneurship, the only middle schooler among FCPS finalists.

The conference ran Monday, June 29, through Wednesday, July 2, drew more than 16,000 total attendees, and awarded nearly $65,000 in cash prizes across 108 business-related events, according to FCPS.

McLean families interested in FBLA for the 2026-27 school year can contact chapter sponsor Sandra Beyer at [email protected] for fall enrollment details.