Jackson FBLA Soars at District 15 Leadership Conference

Winners with their medals from District FBLA competition

Members of the Jackson High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Chapter recently attended the 2015 District 15 FBLA Leadership Conference held on February 9, 2015 at Southeast Missouri State University. Chance Ziegler, senior and part of the FBLA officer team at JHS, presided as District President.

Over 320 students from 13 schools across the Southeast Missouri region competed, and the Jackson chapter sent 69 students to the conference this year.

Results are below. First place winners qualified to advance to State competition. All other events with asterisks also qualified.

1st Place Winners

*Kassidy Adams, Lindsey Breer, & Mabrey McCallister, Marketing team
*Lama Alshammary, Madison Dowdy, & Jasmine Jones, Digital Video Production team
*Preston Arnold, Logan Bader, & Alex Stone, Sports and Entertainment Management team
*Logan Bader, Business Calculations
*Logan Bader, Electronic Career Portfolio
*Austin Bannister, Computer Problem Solving
*Austin Bannister, Web Site Design
*Josh Barber, Caitlyn Palmer, & Alex Snyder, Banking & Financial Systems team
*Josh Barber, Sales Presentation
*Makenzi Bohnert and Danielle Farrow, Desktop Publishing team
*Katie Dobbs and Lynden Sides, Digital Design & Promotion team
*Candace Hamlin, Database Design & Applications
*Candace Hamlin, Parker Mitten, & Chance Ziegler, Global Business team
*Jennifer Hatheway, Ashton McWilson, & Sunny Smith, Public Service Announcement team
*Maddie Jones, Aleigh Roberts, & Sarah Stephens, Business Ethics team
*Alex Rodman, Introduction to Business
*Curtis Schilling, Help Desk
*Kyle Schwarz, Networking Concepts
*Sabrena Shipley, Accounting II
*Chance Ziegler, Future Business Leader

2nd place Winners

*Will Allen, Business Calculations*
*Will Allen, Job Interview
*Kaleb Arends, Insurance & Risk Management*
*Preston Arnold, Business Procedures*
*Seth Bollinger, Mason Turner, & Braden Wendel, Management Decision Making team
*Anna Estes, Introduction to Business*
*Amy Justis, Impromptu Speaking
*Caitlyn Palmer, Economics*
*Kaitlyn Schiwitz, FBLA Principles & Procedures*
*Michaela Scott, Introduction to Business Communication*
*Taylor Smith, Agribusiness*
*Camera Tyler, Public Speaking I
*Bailey Watkins, Accounting II
*Alissa Wiggins, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure*
*Madison Yamnitz, Spreadsheet Applications
*Ashley Yarbro, Personal Finance*
*Chance Ziegler, Securities and Investments*

3rd place Winners

*Katelyn Fehr, FBLA Principles & Procedures*
*Katelyn Fehr, Introduction to Business Communication*
*Candace Hamlin, Client Service
*Alexis Hanks, Josh Humprys, & Sydney Watson, Business Presentation team
*Ashley House & Levi Kempf, Entrepreneurship team
*Maddie Jones, Spreadsheet Applications
*Allison Karleskint, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure*
*Tyler Macke, Introduction to Information Technology*
*Sunny Smith, Business Communication*
*Matthew Snider, Cyber Security*
*Jordan Vincent, Computer Applications
*Jordan Vincent, Carlee Williamson, & Ashley Yarbro, Hospitality Management team

4th place Winners

*Lama Alshammary, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure*
*Jacob Brown, Introduction to Business*
*Elise Eastin, Introduction to Business Communication*
*Ashton McWilson, Economics
*Matthew Snyder, Securities and Investments
*Sarah Stephens, Public Speaking II
*Carlee Williamson, Computer Applications
*Ashley Yarbro, Healthcare Administration*

5th place Winners

*Amy Justis, Introduction to Information Technology*
*Sabrena Shipley, Economics*
*Alissa Wiggins, Introduction to Business

Those who qualified and a few others in events that go straight to state, including chapter reports, will represent Jackson High School at FBLA State Leadership Conference in Springfield, MO, April 12-14.

Tonya Skinner, David Cochrane and Ronna Kramer, high school chapter advisers, and Caitlyn Dillingham, Autumn Stevens and Wayne Dierker, junior high chapter advisers, accompanied the students to the District 15 Conference.

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