BROKEN BOW – The Broken Bow FBLA recently attended the 61st State Leadership Conference in Kearney; 1,961 members from 139 chapters statewide came to represent their schools and communities, with a chance to represent their state in the national conference in Atlanta this June.
Thirty-one of those almost 2,000 students belonged to Broken Bow; the chapter brought both middle and high schoolers to compete in competitions ranging from presentations to projects and testing. Each FBLA student was required to commit to 16 or more study hours in order to properly prepare for the event.
The work paid off for the Broken Bow chapter: the students took home 15 1st through 3rd place prizes and an additional 32 top 8 awards. Broken Bow’s FBLA had 12 members qualify for the national conference.
Emmett Palmer ranked 2nd in “Middle School Elevator Speech” and impressively took home the conference’s Young Leader Award. Broken Bow’s first-place finishers, and national qualifiers, were as follows: Keelyn Shea in “Introduction to FBLA,” Maggie Peterson in “Introduction to Public Speaking, and Brielle Hamel-Evans, Charlee Myers, and Ruby Russell in “Public Service Announcement.”
Ethan Wenquist and Evan Cyboron brought home second place in “Sales Presentation,” and Kennadi Ross finished second in “Human Resource Management.”
Molly Custer, Will Moninger, and Michael Forster finished third in “Introduction to Business Presentation,” and Emmett Palmer and Ashlyn Schauda came in third for their “Middle School Annual Chapter Activities Presentation.”
A full list of the chapter’s other conference awards is below.
4th Place
- Austin Fox, Justin Johnson, Keelyn Shea – Business Financial Plan
- Brock Oeltjen, Bailey Ridder, Ali Morris – Digital Animation
- Michael Forster – Supply Chain Management
- Skylar Smith – Middle School Business Etiquette, Middle School Running an Effective Meeting
5th Place
- Emersyn Palmer – Middle School Elevator Speech
- Jerry Sittler – Business Calculations
- Justin Johnson – Business Law, Personal Finance
- Keelyn Shea – Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures
6th Place
- Ali Morris – Business Communication
- Justin Johnson – Insurance and Risk Management
- Keelyn Shea – Introduction to Business Communication
7th Place
- Ashlyn Schauda – Middle School Business Etiquette, Middle School Financial Literacy
- Emersyn Palmer – Middle School Running an Effective Meeting
- Michael Forster – Client Service
8th Place
- Keelyn Shea – Accounting 1
- Ali Morris – Public Speaking
Honorable Mention
- Emmett Palmer – Middle School Financial Literacy
- Jerry Sittler – Accounting 1
- Anna Chancellor, Kennadi Ross, Colton Kelley – Broadcast Journalism
- Justin Johnson – Human Resource Management
- Michael Forster – Introduction to Business Practices
- Austin Fox – Introduction to FBLA
- Ali Morris – Organizational Leadership
