Local students represent state at national conference

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Spencer Hoagland displays her first place award at the FBLA National Conference in June.

Nevada Daily Mail

For the second year in a row, a student from Northeast Vernon County schools has taken home a first place honor at the National Future Business Leaders of America Conference.

Two students from NEVC, Spencer Hoagland and James Manes. represented the state of Missouri at the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, Calif., June 25-28.

Competing in FBLA-PBL's national awards program, Spencer vied for top honors in Word Processing I and James in Introduction to Computer Technology against state representatives from across the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Guam, the Cayman Islands, and the Department of Defense schools worldwide.

At the Awards of Excellence program, it was announced that Spencer earned first place in Word Processing I. Along with the title she won a cash prize.

The competition is part of a competitive events program sponsored annually by FBLA-PBL, a professional association for students pursuing business careers. Individuals, local chapters and state teams compete in more than 50 events representing a range of business, career, and leadership development activities. The winners of these challenging and prestigious awards are selected from FBLA-PBL's more than 210,000 members, and have won regional and state competitions to qualify for the national awards program. The 7,500 delegates to the 57th annual conference elected national student officers and attended business and leadership workshops in addition to competing in business and career skill events. This year's national theme, "FBLA-PBL: Get the Edge!" reflects the goals of FBLA-PBL members, some of the best and the brightest of today's young people.

Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that prepares students for careers in business and business education. Its 210,000 members and advisers in 6,000 chartered chapters include students from the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Guam, the Cayman Islands, and Europe. Its mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs. Others attending the event to support Spencer and James were John Hoagland, Bailee Bybee and adviser Laurie Bybee.

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