Sixteen students from the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will be among approximately 5,000 high school students converging on Orlando, Fl., for the Business Professionals of America (BPA) national conference, May 8-12.

The following students have qualified to compete at the conference. The award they won at the state level and school is noted below.

• Hannah Riffle, 1st in Interview Skills, Bosse High School

After 11 years of experience handling financial responsibilities at Atlas Van Lines, Stacie Banks has been internally promoted to vice president of finance at the company. Banks began her career at Atlas in 2002 as director of internal audit and tax and was promoted to senior director of corporate finance in 2009.

“Stacie has been an instrumental member of the financial team throughout her tenure at Atlas,” said Rick Olson, senior vice president and CFO of Atlas Van Lines. “In her previous role, she was one of three people responsible for developing and implementing the new finance system we use today, and we look forward to the contributions she will make to Atlas as our VP of finance.”

Two Tri-State businesses were awarded EDGE awards at the Indiana State House this week.

Indiana Lt. Governor Sue Ellspermann presented the 2013 Economic Development and Growth through Entrepreneurship (EDGE)  Awards to Mark and Kailyn Hudson from HoneyBaked Ham Company and Café and Kim and Jim Derk of Lifesong Academy.

Located just off North Green River Road, HoneyBaked Ham Company and Cafe was recognized as the “emerging business” for 2013.  Mark and Kailyn came to the Southwest ISBDC in April 2011 for assistance with fine-tuning the company’s operating plan and other guidance. The HoneyBaked Ham Company and Café employs six employees.