Members of the Worth County Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Chapter recently attended the 2010 Missouri FBLA State Leadership Conference held on April 18th, 19th, and 20th in Columbia, Missouri. Over 2,750 members and advisers representing 426 chapters throughout Missouri met to participate in leadership and career workshops, and to compete in the state leadership awards program.
Worth County qualified nine for state and qualified in the following events:
Jordan Harding qualified in E-Business where he had to make a pretend website for Worth County High School’s 50th anniversary, the website had to have shopping cart capabilities and can be viewed at http://wc.k12.mo.us/Business%20Web/E%20business/Homepage.html. Jordan also qualified in Computer Applications where he was given two hours to produce business documents using word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software. Jordan took 3rd in the State in E-Business and 4th in the state in Computer Applications. He barely missed qualifying for nationals in both.
Chelsea Ebrus qualified in Marketing. She had to take a one hour online test over marketing concepts. Chelsea placed 7th in the state, 7 points behind the state winner.
The following students also qualified by taking written tests. Lauren Null in Personal Finance, Wyatt McClain in Business Law, Carli Jackson in Introduction to Business Communications, and Sierra Grove in Business Procedures. They did not place in the top 10.
Ashley Reynolds, Delaney Davidson, and Brooke Gilland qualified in Emerging Business Issues. The team put together an affirmative and negative argument over whether the auto bailout money should have government accountability on how they used the money. The team had to prepare both sides of the argument and before presenting they drew for which side they would present to the judges. The team did not place in the top 8 of performance events.
The entire Worth County FBLA chapter was recognized with the “Reach Out and Care” award that was granted to chapters who had completed various community service projects.
Congratulations to all FBLA members who qualified and competed at the FBLA State Leadership Conference.
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