For details, contact:
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.