Once again, we headed to Spokane for the annual state conference, and it was a blast! To say this year in FBLA was amazing is an understatement, and we have SO MUCH to be proud of this year! I want to start off by thanking you all once again for your continued support of our FBLA chapter and members! Hazen FBLA has now been labeled as one of “those chapters”, meaning that other chapters strive to accomplish the same types of goals we were able to accomplish in an very short period of time. Our students are great! They have worked hard on their projects and competitive events throughout the year, and it showed this last week at Washington FBLA State Conference 2017! While not everyone was able to qualify for nationals in their events, our students walked away from Spokane feeling confident and excited for next school year. That’s winning in my book! A trip to nationals is just a nice bonus!
Hazen FBLA ended up taking the most students out of any chapter in WAFBLA to the annual state conference. With 68 total students in attendance, there was plenty of work to be done and an incredibly busy schedule. Thursday started our days of competition with all the preliminary presentations. Hazen competed in 30 of the 48 events that presented on Thursday, which means that I sat in the corner of the Davenport Grand Hotel for 5 hours, coaching our members, listening to presentations, debriefing with them after their presentations, and celebrating with them when they came out feeling excited and with a big smile on their face! Friday was finals competition day. Of our 30 presentations given on Thursday, 24 groups got to compete for finals (20 from Thursday’s preliminaries + 4 teams that qualified from a testing event before we arrived in Spokane)! In order to make it into finals in your competitive events, you must score within the top 15 in the state for that respective event. In order to qualify for the national conference in Anaheim, you must place within the top 4 teams/individuals. |