March 15 through the 17, 20 HS BPA members traveled to Indianapolis to participate in the State Leadership Conference. The MS had 10 students attend on Sunday, March 15th. These students participated in a variety of events such as:
High School
-Administrative Support Team
-Integrated Office
-Basic Office Procedure
-Advanced Office Procedures
-Advanced Word Processing
-Presentation Management Team
-Small Business Management Team
Middle School
-Extemporaneous Speech
-Prepared Speaking
-Keyboarding Production
-Spreadsheets
-Financial Literacy
-Computer Literacy
-Business Math
-Business Fundamentals
-Business Communication Fundamentals
Our own Stephanie Smith, who is the current District 12 President helped to plan and run the State Leadership Conference. Next year, Courtney Gullion will be taking over as District 12 President as she was pinned at this year’s conference.
Overall, we have 9 BPA members that are able to attend nationals:
*Hunter Zorn-HS placed FIRST in Integrated Office Applications
*Courtney Gullion-HS placed SECOND in Advanced Office Systems & Procedures
*Hope Tankersley-HS placed FOURTH in Fundamental Desktop Publishing
*Stephanie Smith-HS will be an Indiana Voting Delegate at Nationals and will help select the national officers
*Adeli Kinne-HS will be earning an Ambassador Torch Award, the highest award possible in BPA, and will be completing the Leadership Academy and will be an Intern
*Calleigh Powell– MS placed 3rd in Extemporaneous Speech and 4th in Financial Literacy to qualify. She also placed 5th in Business Communications and 10th in Business Fundamentals.
*Garrett Demaree– placed 1st in Spreadsheets to qualify. Garrett also placed 1st in Computer Literacy, 2nd in Business Fundamentals and 2nd in Business Communications.
*Samuel White placed 2nd in Financial Literacy to qualify. He also placed 10th in Business Math.
*Alex Edwards placed 6th in keyboarding to qualify. Alex also placed 2nd in Business Math and 2nd in Computer Literacy.
Both chapters also had several students earn medals by placing in the top ten in their respective events.
*Bre Braun-HS placed 8th in Advanced Spreadsheet
*Adeli Kinne-HS placed 9th in Advanced Word Processing.
*Emma Sullivan– MS placed 1st in Business Communications
*Ariel Oeffinger– MS placed 8th in Keyboarding
In addition to the individual accomplishments of the students, the HS had some great accomplishments as a chapter as well.
*Courtney Gullion received a member recruiter award. You can receive this award by recruiting five new members to the chapter.
Also, the chapter received many BPA Cares Awards. BPA Cares is a program where chapters are recognized for their work in the school and in the community. Our Chapter received the following BPA Cares Awards:
-Community Action
-Environmental Action
-Safety Awareness
-Special Olympics
-Marketing and Public Relations
-Quality Chapter
-Chapter Activities Award of Excellence
For anyone not familiar with BPA or the BPA cares program, these are ALL the awards that a chapter can earn, and we earned every single one possible. Also, we were the ONLY school in Indiana to earn all of the BPA Cares awards. This just goes to show how dedicated our students are.
