Licking FBLA shines at District Conference
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District Leadership Conference (DLC) medalists, from left, seated: Ethan Domenech and J’sai Leahy; standing: Branson Evans, Noah Umfleet, Chris Ross-Leffler, Evan Crow, Alex Sprouse and Paxten Keeney.
By Mrs. Stacie Hutsell
On Monday, January 27, Licking Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) members attended the District 14 Conference at Hartville.
After a day of events, time keeping, workshops, and performances, we attended the Awards Ceremony and earned 19 total medals from online testing and performances! Each year presents its challenges, especially weather over deadlines, but we have some pretty awesome tech and business minded kids who are intelligent, resilient and committed! We will test for State in March and participate in the State Leadership Conference April 13-15, in Springfield. We have at least 10 students in 16 tests advancing to State Competition! Those advancing to State Level Competition as we know now are:
• Ethan Domenech – 1st Business Law, 1st Personal Finance, 1st Public Policy & Advocacy (must forfeit one event as only two events are eligible for State entry)
• Timothy Norris – 1st Supply Chain Management, 3rd Advertising, 5th Financial Math (must forfeit one event as only two events are eligible for State entry)
• J’sai Leahy – 1st Introduction to Business Communication, 2nd Introduction to FBLA
• Noah Umfleet – 1st Cyber Security, 2nd Human Resource Management
• Branson Evans – 3rd Supply Chain Management, 5th UX Design
• Paxten Keeney – 3rd Introduction to Business Communication, 3rd UX Design
• Alex Sprouse – 2nd Networking Infrastructures
• Christopher Ross-Leffler – 3rd Impromptu Speaking
• Evan Crow – 4th Entrepreneurship
• Joshawa Wade – 4th Organizational Leadership
• Emilie Williams – 5th Advertising
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Other DLC medalists: Emilie Williams, Tim Norris and Josh Wade (front).
Additional competitors placed in the top ten in their respective events (many with the possibility of Wild Card entering to State competition level):
• Alex Sprouse – 6th Cyber Security, 9th Computer Problem Solving
• Christopher Ross-Leffler – 6th Organizational Leadership, 7th Cyber Security
• Emilie Williams – 6th Supply Chain Management, 8th Health Care Administration
• Evan Crow – 6th Introduction to Marketing Concepts, 6th Introduction to Public Speaking
• John Gyory – 8th Cyber Security, 9th UX Design
• Noah Umfleet – 6th Health Care Administration
• Paxten Keeney – 6th Word Processing
• Joshawa Wade – 8th Business Law
• J’sai Leahy – 9th Introduction to Business Concepts
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DLC participants, from left: Branson Evans, Evan Crow and Chris Ross-Leffler.
Congratulations Future Business Leaders! Thank you for all your hard work and commitment! We are one association for service, education, and progress! Faculty, thank you for your patience with and support of our academic organization – in no way can I alone prepare these kids for the hundreds of opportunities available – it took all of you and some seriously talented kids! Please congratulate these students on their commitment and accomplishments!
February is Career and Technical Education Month. Each of our Career and Technical Education organizations are celebrated throughout the month of February.
