In a normal school year, each December, the FBLA clubs from all of Region 27 travel to Keystone College for the Regional Leadership Conference to compete in a business-related test or event to try to qualify for states, a 3-day conference held in Hershey, PA. Unfortunately, due to COVID, all conferences were changed to virtual, and students were required to test from their school or home. However, the changes didn’t affect the Towanda FBLA members too much. For the first time ever, 17 out of 17 members placed in the Regional Leadership Conference, and 11 out of 17 members qualified for the state conference this spring. Students moving on to states will be testing in the hopes of qualifying for nationals, which was scheduled to be held in Anaheim, California in early July, but will, unfortunately, be virtual this year.
The places were as follows:
Arie Strickland: 3rd Place in Healthcare Administration
Kaleigh Fields: 3rd Place in Personal Finance
Ally Hurley & Bella Hurley: 4th Place in Sports & Entertainment Management
Saige Greenland & Mackenna Maynard: 3rd Place in Sports & Entertainment Management
Shaylee Greenland: 1st in Introduction to Business
Joslyn Stroud: 4th in Introduction to Financial Math
Mirra Nielson, Erin Barrett, & Ava Gannon: 4th Place in Marketing
Brooke Cease & Jaslynne Reynolds: 3rd Place in Intro to Event Planning
Blaze Wood, Madison Dunn, & Daisy Bailey: 2nd Place in Broadcast Journalism