National qualifiers emerge from state FBLA conference

    Several members of the Future Business Leaders of America chapter at Chase County Schools have qualified for nationals.
    That came at the FBLA State Leadership Conference held April 3-5 in Kearney.
    Advisor Sandy O’Neil said students in both the middle level and high school chapters at CCS attended, and all students competed in five events and attended a seminar while at the conference.
    Seniors also took advantage of competing in the job interview competition or a Future Business Leader event.
    National qualifiers from CCS include the 1st place parliamentary procedure team of Brooke Schilke, Navy Havel, Tessa Smith and Anna Aragon.
    Eighth grader Andee Schoenholz qualified for nationals with a pair of seconds in Business Ethics and Leadership.
    However, O’Neil said each student can only compete in one event at nationals so some of the students that place in the top three have to choose which event they want to go in.
    Schoenholz will have to make that choice, which allowed McNair to now attend nationals in Intro to Business Concepts, O’Neil said.
    Nebraska takes the top three people to nationals from the high school contests and the top two from the junior high divisions, she added.
    Nationals will be held June 26 to July 1 in Atlanta.
    Here are the CCS full placings at state:
    Brooke Schilke, Navy Havel, Tessa Smith, Anna Aragon— 1st place Parliamentary Procedure Team, National Qualifier
    Andee Schoenholz—2nd place Business Ethics, National Qualifier
    Andee Schoenholz—2nd place Leadership, National Qualifier
    Emily Randall    —3rd place Business Ethics
    Chloe Colton—6th place  Business Ethics
    Ava McNair— 6th place Intro to Business Concepts
    Matt Murray—7th place Sales Presentation
    Ava McNair—Honorable Mention, Intro to Business Communication, Top 4% among 319 contestants in the event
    Schoenholz, Colton and Randall are all members of the middle level chapter. The rest are high school members.