Penn State Marketing Association Earns National Honors
The Penn State Marketing Association, a Smeal College of Business student organization, recently attended the American Marketing Association's AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans and returned home with several national honors.
Penn State Marketing Association Earns National Honors
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (April 14, 2009) – The Penn State Marketing Association, a Smeal College of Business student organization, recently attended the American Marketing Association's AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans and returned home with several national honors.
The club was awarded the Best Display of Chapter Activities award for its tradeshow exhibit, which also received the Student Choice Award. PSMA also earned second place out of 150 chapters in the category of best AMA Collegiate Chapter of the year.
A PSMA member-created video won second place in the AMA Recruitment Video Competition, and a group of PSMA executive board members took home fifth place in the SABRE Business Simulation competition.
In individual honors, Smeal student Dan Sturman, PSMA vice president of promotions, won first place in the conference's Northwestern Mutual Sales Competition.
The Penn State Marketing Association is made up of students interested in pursuing careers in marketing. The club provides its members with networking opportunities and an outlet for professional and personal growth. It's one of the largest student-run organizations at Penn State and is recognized annually as one of the premier AMA collegiate chapters in the nation.
For more on the PSMA, visit www.gopsma.com.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
