ORONO – The UMaine student chapter of the American Marketing Association has been named one of eight semifinalist teams in a national college business presentation competitions.

In their second year of entering the national McGraw-Hill Higher Education Case Competition and three years after the revitalization of the UMaine AMA chapter, members of the case analysis and competition team were among 16 finalists or semifinalists selected in December to receive honors at the AMA international conference April 3 in New Orleans.

The case competition involved students from more than 60 of the country’s top business schools analyzing a hypothetical business marketing dilemma and proposing marketing strategies.

Team members are Morgan Bickford of Lebanon, Bethany Brown of Farmington, Heather Conary of Orrington, Joshua Lagasse of Wells, Bethany Mealey of Farmingdale, Emin Okutan of Ankara, Turkey, Julie Salvato of Winslow and Amy Shepard of Rockland.