High School

FBLA State Leadership Conference 2008

By Ann Hutchinson

Seventy members of the Jefferson County North FBLA chapter placed third out of 88 chapters at the Future Business Leaders of America State Leadership Conference. Matthew Finley, son of Paul and Elizabeth Finley was elected FBLA State Executive Vice President and Beth Anne Brickell, daughter of Jim and Lynette Brickell, was elected State Historian. Seven winners qualified to compete at the FBLA National Leadership Conference held June 24 through June 30 in Atlanta, Ga.

The following students are national qualifiers for the conference in June:
Matthew Finley and Beth Anne Brickell as state officers.

Callie Barnett, Laura Flory, Chelsey Lemke and Jacob Schrick, community Service Project, 2nd.
Phoenix Hutchinson, Desktop Programming Application, 1st.

Other state participants and their scores are as follows:
Chapter Scrapbook - 5th - Monica Cardona, Millissia Tomlinson and Megan Weishaar
Business Plan - 5th - Heather Edwards, Joey Landin and Riley Zeimer
Cyber Security - 10th - Justin Erhart
Database Design - 3rd - Laura Pemberton, 6th - Kandace Irvine and 7th - Gage Funk
Desktop Publishing - 9th - Monica Cardona and Abraham Noll
eBusiness - 3rd - Jenna Domann and Amber Huffman
Electronic Career Portfolio - 5th - Laura Flory
Global Business - 4th - Matthew Finley, Steuart Heinsleigh and Patrick Willyard
Introduction to Business – 7th - Lauren Ballinger
Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures - 6th - Sara Navinskey
Job Interview - 4th - Jenna Domann
Public Speaking II - 8th - Maggie Robohn
Spreadsheet Applications - l0th - Laura Pemberton
National Who's Who in FBLA - 4th - Talsa Hutchinson and 8th - Callie Barnett
Mr. FBL - 2nd - Matthew Finley
Ms. FBL - 3rd - Callie Barnett and 6th - Talsa Hutchinson
Who's Who in FBLA - Talsa Hutchinson, Callie Barnett, Matthew Finley, Beth Anne Brickell, Jared Brown, Chelsey Lemke and Millissia Tomlinson

Voting Delegates:
State: Jared Brown, Chelsey Lemke, Sara Navinskey, Phoenix Hutchinson and Megan Weishaar
District: Kristina Kramer, Luke Noll and Jackie Schrick
Quality Member Awards - Matthew Finley, Laura Flory and Chelsey Lemke

Also attending FBLA State Leadership conference were advisers Ann Hutchinson and Kristy Noll, Principal Gary Bedigrew, Chaperones Mary Barnett, Jeannine Flory, Kay Noll, Arlene Bolinger, Becky Schrick, Lynette Brickell, Kelly Hattemer and Bill Reed.