More than 100 FBLA Students Qualify for State
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Oregon Tech Hosted Regional Competition
The Future Business Leaders of America Cascade Regional Skills Conference was held on Feb. 7 at Oregon Tech. Congratulations to all students who participated and qualified for the 2018 FBLA State Business Leadership Conference. Overall, there are more than a hundred students from the Klamath County School District who qualified for the state conference, which will be held April 5 through 7 in Portland.
During the conference, students had the opportunity to develop their leadership, communication and financial skills by attending workshops throughout the day. The conference started with an opening session and a welcome from Cascade Region Vice-President Madelyn Cunningham and Klamath City Police Chief Dave Henslee.
Some of the events that students selected to compete in were Accounting, Cyber Security, Job Interview, Healthcare Administration, and Entrepreneurship.
Brazil Cisneros is a junior at Mazama High School. She and Gordon McCreadie competed in this year’s Entrepreneurship event.
“The regional conference is exciting and nerve-racking because there are so many great students who are all competing to qualify for state,” Cisneros said, noting this conference marks the official start of the journey to the National Leadership Conference, which will be hosted in Baltimore, Maryland.
Schools that participated in this year’s event include Bonanza, Culver, Eagle Ridge, Gilchrist, La Pine, Lost River, Madras, Mazama, North Lake, Redmond, and Ridgeview high schools. A special thank you on behalf of the conference organizers to all the participants and judges who were able to attend this year’s event and good luck to those going on to the State Business Leadership Conference!
Press release provided by Klamath County School District. Sergio Cisneros, Business Teacher, FBLA Adviser, Mazama High School