Riverdale High Students to Compete in National Leadership Conference

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FORT MYERS, Fla. Thousands of America’s future business leaders are heading off to California this summer to compete in the 2017 National Leadership Conference, and a dozen students from Southwest Florida’s own Riverdale High School will be there to match wits with the very best. Two of the students who will be competing, Miranda Sosa and Malia Williams, joined us in the studio today to tell us more about the event and the school’s fundraising effort to help make it all happen.

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