Burley High School did quite well at State Competitions this last weekend! BPA which stands for Business Professionals of America is a club at the high school with Jack Bagley and DeAnn Campbell as its advisers. BPA is a club that is all about being professional. Students learn to be professional while participating in various business categories such as Keyboarding, Video Production, Parliamentary Pro and Website Design. Regionals was sponsored at Burley High School this year and we had several winners who qualified for State. Last Thursday through Saturday, the State competitions were held in Boise at the Grove Hotel and at the BSU campus. All of the students had an absolute blast and made new friends as well as learned valuable techniques for the future. Burley High School’s Lacy Morrison was elected as Idaho’s Business Professionals of America State President and did a wonderful job singing the National Anthem as well. The event sponsored each school to attend the Stampede game at BSU that Friday night and had many workshops during the course of each day in between competitions as well. We never seemed to have a boring moment and were able to work hard but have fun at the same time. By the time the award ceremony rolled around…Burley High School had at least 16 national qualifiers including the Video Production Team, Parli Pro Team, Scott Harris (Individual), Megan Graham (Individual) and several others. Nationals will be in held in Anaheim, California May 5-9 this year and all of the students are ecstatic about this opportunity. “We are all proud of our hard work and believe that we have really shown our state what Burley High School students are all about.” -Emily Silva
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BPA is such a great extra-curricular experience. Any students at the high school or approaching the high school should seriously consider joining BPA. Scholarships and college opportunities are awarded on the National level and it’s a great way to socialize with peers. Great post Em!
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So, who are the other individuals?
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Thanks for the great article Emily. To answer Janiece’s question. Other winners were Parli Pro Team, 1st (Jacob Lake, Kiley Brown, Nathaniel Brown, Cheri Preston & Chad Searle); Video Production Team, 1st (Alli Brinkerhoff, Chelsae Graf, Emily Silva, Sophia Tateoka); Lexi Crane, 5th Keyboarding; Ainsley Johnson, 4th Keyboarding; Heather Johnson, 1st Database; Emily Winn, 2nd Database; Taylor Galow, 1st Payroll Accounting & 2nd Advanced Accounting; Steven Barson, 4th Advanced Accounting; Heather Carlquist, 2nd Payroll Accounting; Katlynn Ward, 3rd Advanced Accounting; Megan Graham, 1st Spreadsheets; Marshall Greer, 3rd Entrepreneur; Ryan Lott, 5th Banking & Finance; Cassie Crane, 4th Advanced Office. All of the Burley kids did a wonderful job. Big thanks also to all the business people in town (Mike Ramsey included) that helped make our Region 7 competition a great success and gave these kids great advice before competing at state.