Roanoke County Students Advance to State FBLA Competition
Thirty-one students from various Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapters at high schools across Roanoke County participated in the Virginia Western Community College Region competition, which took place from January 24th to March 6th. The competition results were revealed at the Virginia Western Community College Regional Spring Leadership Conference on March 6th. The following students placed in the competition:
First-Place Winners:
- Michael Boland (WBHS) – Word Processing I
- Lindsey Booth (WBHS) – Word Processing II
- Amiee Brydges (BCAT/CSHS), Coty Whitaker (BCAT/WBHS) – Business Presentation
- James Foley (BCAT/WBHS), Nick Rawlings (BCAT/NHS) – Website Development
- Joelle Henshaw (BCAT/CSHS) – Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure
- Suneil Mistry (BCAT/NHS) – Electronic Career Portfolio
- Taylor Redmond (HVHS) – Job Interview
Second-Place Winners:
- A.J. Brown (BCAT/CSHS)– Networking Concepts
- Jim Fisher (BCAT/WBHS) – Technology Concepts
- Cody Graves (BCAT/GHS) – Intro to Business Communication
- Joshua Jamerson (WBHS) – Accounting II
- Catherine King (NHS) – Job Interview
- Nick Pappas (BCAT/CSHS), Joey Carleno (BCAT/CSHS) – Network Design
- Esther Park (WBHS) – Business Communication
- Nenad Savanovic (BCAT/HVHS) – Business Calculations
- Daniel Schlossberg (BCAT/HVHS) – Intro. To Business
- Patrick Williamson (WBHS) – Business Law
- Peyton Wilson (BCAT/NHS) – Intro to Technology Concepts
Third-Place Winners:
- Michael Conley (BCAT/CSHS), Nick Bilbro (BCAT/CSHS), Evan Clower (BCAT/HVHS) – Digital Video Production
- Tyler Giles (BCAT/NHS) – Computer Problem Solving
- Tyler Lucker (BCAT/HVHS) – Help Desk
- Michelle Sumner (BCAT/CSHS) – FBLA Principles and Procedures
- Matthew Yencha (BCAT/NHS) – Computer Applications
Fourth-Place Winners:
- Madison Brown (WBHS) – 4th place in Introduction to Business
- Kim Furrow (NHS) – 4th place in Introduction to Business
- Cara Hoopes (NHS) – 4th place in Computer Applications
- Chloe Lockard (NHS) – 4th place in Accounting I
- Travis Wheeler(BCAT/GHS) – 4th place in Economics
First and second place winners advance to State Competition on April 17-18 in Reston, Virginia.
FBLA competition events include written, chapter, computer, and performance events. Computer events took place on February 17th and skill events took place on Friday, January 30th. Performance events took place at the Virginia Western Community College Regional Spring Conference on March 6th.
FBLA is the largest business career student organization in the world. It is a co-curricular organization in which business students have leadership opportunities, gain experience in community service, compete in business-related events, and learn about career opportunities.