The Worth County FBLA Chapter participated in the District Leadership Conference at Northwest Missouri State University on Wednesday, February 8th. Worth County was well represented with ten students qualifying for state in nine events. Taking first place in E-Business were seniors Ali Brown, Taylor Sanders, and Drew Welch. The prompt for this year was to create a website for a local rental property. Our team worked with Dan and Bobbi Jo Gladstone of Worth, MO to create a website for their renovated grain bins. Combining their website design skills with interior drone footage and the uniqueness of the bins themselves gave the team a leg up and they won districts for a third year in a row. Drew Welch also took first place in the event of Database Design Applications where he had an hour to produce and populate a database requiring reports, queries, and relationships.
Another first-place finish for Worth County FBLA was the Digital Video Production team of senior Tucker Owens and juniors Ethan Frese and Lincoln Wake. The team worked all fall on capturing football videos in all weather conditions and grabbed some unique field footage using a drone. After submitting their video, they then presented to a panel of judges on their design and development process. Lincoln Wake also won his individual event of Word Processing where he had an hour to produce business formatted documents ranging from letters, agendas, and tables. Tucker Owens also qualified 3rd in an objective test of UX Design. Ethan Frese qualified 5th in his objective test of Computer Problem Solving.
The chapter had two second place finishes that also qualified for state. Senior, Hailey Adwell, placed second in Website Design where she showcased her business, Hailey Adwell Designs, and presented her website to a panel of judges. Hailey’s website included several years of her design work and the judges were impressed that she used her actual business as her website project. Also placing second at districts in their first year of FBLA were freshmen Brayden Combs, Lucas Frisch, and Andrew Griffin. They took on the event of Public Service Announcement in which they had to produce a 30 second video over a teen social issue and then present to judges on their planning, design, and development process behind the video. The boys chose the topic of teen screen addiction and made a cartoon PSA where a 911 call from a concerned parent turned out to be an addicted screen zombie.
Teams are currently fine tuning their projects for state submission and will travel to Springfield, MO April 16th-18th. FBLA will help out at the PTO carnival in early March. Then, on March 9th FBLA will take their field trip to Urban Air in Des Moines and will also volunteer two hours at Meals from the Heartland. FBLA officers are currently deciding on ideas for fundraising to generate funds for state and potentially nationals. In other business department news, the Website Design class is almost ready to start taking on clients who need website built for them. If you would like a website, please reach out to April Healy at ahealy@wc.k12.mo.us
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