Cedar Wilkening, Josh Faust & Lindsey Conard

HVHS FBLA had a successful National Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tennessee! 18 students headed to the south to compete with the best in the nation in 14 different events. Our students competed hard against the best in the nation and had some pretty remarkable results.

Competing were:

Campaign for National President; Gabrielle Pendleton

Community Service Project; Kaylee VanLeuuen, Lauren Hogan

Electronic Career Portfolio; Amanda Denbeck

Emerging Business Issues; CJ Severson, Kaity Markley

Partnership with Business; Ashley Pendleton, McKenna Norris

Public Speaking II; Emily Ice

Sports Management; Xandre Pornaras

State Chapter Annual Business Report; Kaity Markley

Technology Concepts; Sean Davis

Website Development; Aaron Hernandez

Serena Kasner made the national finals in Public Speaking I, but did not make the stage finishing somewhere between 11 and 15. Still, a remarkable performance putting her in the top 15 in the country among the best freshmen and sophomore public speakers in the nation!

Ben Nelson and Travis Fitchie garnered a strong second place finish with their American Enterprise Project. This places them among the top five NLC placings HVHS has had.

Lindsey Conard, Josh Faust and Cedar Wilkening captured a second place finish in Business Financial Plan, also placing them in the top 5 all time for our chapter.

Sophomore Devon Andrade gave Hidden Valley FBLA it’s first National Champion with a dominating performance in E Business with his e-commerce website and speech.

Overall, we are very pleased and proud of our kids. All performed admirably and to the best of their ability. One of the exciting pieces is that among the group are only 3 seniors, with 5 top 2 national award winners returning!

HV brought home the three highest placings among the 8 awards won by Oregon. Centennial HS captured 3, Sherwood HS claimed 1 and Baker HS grabbed their first ever national award with past State President Mallory Bailey earning a strong 4th place showing and only female in the top 10 in Sports Management.

Way to go HV! We are gearing up for the JoCo Fair now!

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We have submitted our national projects! With this task complete and the end of the school year just around the corner, one would think that we would be settling down. Haha! Seems like we have more woork now than at any time during the year.

Speeches for NLC, a national officer campaign, mustang preview, Perkins Program of Study, open house, relay for life, chapter officer elections, ecp projects, fair planning, final exams, BAAs, awards of excellence night, projects for next year, Fisher’s Conference, closing the store and concessions for the summer, arena scheduling, a VIP visiting our program, graduation and all the end of year tasks. Whew!

Add to all this the fact that we don’t know when we are going to end the year, and what we have on our hands is a train wreck…lol.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work and support of our successful year. Hard to believe we are starting the campaign to win our tenth title in a row before we have even wrapped up the current year! We have some amazing kids on a mission, seems they were not satisfied and want to really make next year special!

Lee Spargo deserves a special shout out as he has been in the classroom on a nearly daily basis to work with speeches! Gotta love his commitment and representation of the Grants Pass Kiwanis and Toastmasters. Woo whoo…Thanks Lee!

L8R! – Fishdog

Final editing and printing for national projects, fundraising events, concessions, dance planning, classes and Mr Pendleton is in Virginia for a conference!

HVFBLA just won their 9th consecutive State Championship! 40 State Awards and 20 National Qualifiers!

Here are is the short list:

9th Chapter Website; Tim Andrade
3rd Chapter Scrapbook; Brianna Holland, Kendra Lawrence, Elva Martinez
4th Newsletter; Lena Dimatteo, Marina Davalos, Janessa Beck
3rd Chapter Publicity Award
4th Business Financial Plan; Starr Lester, Christina Head
10th Business Plan; Albert Pinedo, Chris Heisner, Justin Kabot
6th Business Plan; Tim Andrade, Sean Davis, Brianna Sorenson
8th Business Presentation; Riley Peterson, Jonathon Christianson
4th Business Presentation; Marquelle Thornton, Alisha Fryer
3rd Business Presentation;Lauren Clisby, Jessica Frerk
3rd Computer game and Simulation Programming; Wesley Maxey
6th Client Services; Gabrielle Pendleton
9th Digital Video Production; Curtis Guzman, Ron Shaw
9th Emerging Business Issues; CJ Severson, Hunter Tillery
6th Public Speaking I; Courtney Hoglan
3rd Public Speaking II; Bethany Richardson
5th Website Development; Nathan Aguilar
5th Future Business Leader; Jessica Newton

National Qualifiers

1st American Enterprise Project; Anna Kouznetsov, Ben Nelson, Travis Fitchie
1st Business Financial Plan; Lindsey Conard, Josh Faust, Cedar Wilkening
2nd Community Service Project; Kaylee VanLeuuen, Lauren Hogan
1st Digital Video Production; Greyson Back, Daniel Rester, Ryan Haberman
1st E Business; Devon Andrade
1st Partnership with Business; Ashley Pendleton, McKenna Norris
2nd Public Speaking I; Serena Kasner
2nd Public Speaking II; Emily Ice
2nd Website Development; Aaron Hernandez

Go HV!!!!!!

What a first night! We had the first awards of excellence session tonight, and had some great results:

10th Marketing; Cody Heistand
9th March of Dimes Report; Lauren Clisby and Jessica Frerk
9th Computer Applications; Daniel Rester
9th Word Processing I; Lori Cordero
6th Computer Applications; Greyson Back
5th Introduction to Business; Jonathon Christiansen
4th Technology Concepts; Sean Davis
3rd Local Chapter Annual Business Report; Amanda Denbeck

National Qualifiers!

3rd Marketing; Xandre Pornaras
3rd Sports Marketing; Xandre Pornaras
2nd Technology Concepts; Wesley Maxey
1st Electronic Career Portfolio; Amanda Denbeck
1st Introduction to Technology Concepts; Devon Andrade

State Officers!

CJ Severson was elected to the office of Rogue Umpqua Region Vice President!
Gabrielle Pendleton was elected to the office of Oregon Executive Vice President and now must run for National Office!

Nice Work!!!

We left HVHS at 4:30 am and are on the way to Portland for SBLC! Wooooo Whoooo!

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There are so many things to like about each of these, but they are two of the top rated hosts in the WORLD! So, there is no going wrong

L8R – Fishdog

Practice night was a smashing success! Nice work everyone….we are ready for SBLC!

I hope you have an amazing and fun spring vacation! Don’t forget to sell your adds! It is vital to have this fundraiser wrapped up so you can use the money for SBLC! A couple dates to remember (coming up right away following the break):

• Monday, March 29 – Return to School
  • All adds are due this day!
  • Be ready to give your speech in class this day!
  • Talk to all of your teachers TODAY about class assignments during the state trip next week (dates below)! this will give them an advanced warning and time to prepare.
• Wednesday, March 31 – FBLA State Practice Night!
  • Parent meeting at 5:30 pm
  • Speaking starts at 6 pm, be early and ready
  • Wear business attire
• Tuesday, April 6 – Depart for SBLC! We will be home in the early evening of Friday, April 9. This means that you will miss four days of school, sports and work.  Start preparing others for this early!

Again, enjoy the break! Have fun!

L8R-Fishdog!