By Cambria Roth
Silverton High School Future Business Leaders of America members attended the state Business Leadership Conference in Portland in April to put their skills to the test.
The result? The FBLA students were named 5A Chapter of the Year.
Julie Bader, Courtney Bartels, Rachael Miller and Trystan Palmer will compete at the National Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn. in July.
Rachael Miller will attend nationals in Desktop Publishing and also represent Silverton High School as the Willamette Valley vice president for Oregon FBLA. At the convention, she made a campaign, presented a speech and those in her region voted for her so she will attend the Institute for Leaders at Nationals.
Silverton FBLA members received many honors.
Miller and Bader placed third for the Chapter Newsletter. Lauri Miller and Roxanna Cuevas were eighth in chapter website. Shiree Hessel was sixth in Word Processing I. Palmer took third and Derek Zeis took sixth in Sports Management.
Emily Utter took fifth in Local Chapter Annual Business Report and for Future Business Leader. Bartels was sixth for March of Dimes project and second for word processing KayLynne Kuenzi, Erica Kohl and Hannah Tappan took sixth place for Community Service Project; Tess Armstrong, 10th place for Chapter Scrapbook; Courtney Blanchard, 12th place for job interview and Dylan Dunagin, ninth for networking concepts.
