UW-Stout: Undergraduate receives national business education award of merit

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Hannah Flom

University Communications

715-232-2381

flomh@uwstout.edu

Menomonie, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Stout undergraduate Samantha Martell has been selected to

receive the National Business Education Association Award of Merit for outstanding achievement in

business education.

Martell was chosen for the award by faculty in UW-Stout’s marketing and business education program

because of her leadership skills and commitment to excellence. As an awardee, she will receive a one-year

professional membership to NBEA, a year’s subscription to NBEA publications and recognition in the fall

issue of Business Education Forum.

Martell, of Somerset, transferred to UW-Stout after two years of studying business at UW-Eau Claire. She

loved her business courses but “still had the passion to become a teacher,” she said. After contacting her

high school business education teacher, she was advised to look into the MBE program at UW-Stout.

She is happy she did. “This major suites me well because I am allowed to combine my passion for business

into my love for education,” she said.

At UW-Stout, Martell has been elected as the financial specialist for MBEA, UW-Stout’s Marketing and

Business Education Association, was selected as an MBE program ambassador and as the Wisconsin

Educators of Business and Information Technology student representative.

“She is an up and coming leader in the program and has potential to become a leader in the field of

marketing and business education,” said Professor Debbie Stanislawski, director of the marketing and

business education program.

Martell will receive the award in April at the MBEA’s annual banquet. The award is given annually to an

outstanding student majoring in marketing and business education.

For more information about the marketing and business education program, go to

www.uwstout.edu/programs/bsmbe/index.cfm.