NLC Days 3-6 -- Universal Studios, Disneyland/California Adventure, Opening Session, and Competition

Hello supporters.

These past few days of been really crazy and we have not been able to keep up on daily blog posts, so I am going to give updates on what has been happening.

Universal Studios -- (Tuesday)
We attended Universal Studios Tuesday morning. The advisers and presidents of the Elgin and Union FBLA chapters chose to keep the type of transportation from the rest of the members for good reason...we were driven in a Red, Stretch LIMO! (picture coming soon!) After a great day at Universal, we were driven back to the hotel in a "party bus" type of limo.

Disneyland / California Adventure -- (Wednesday)
We attended Disneyland on Wednesday. For some of the members, this was their first time at Disneyland and they were super excited to see, explore, and ride around Disney.

Disneyland / California Adventure and Opening Session -- (Thursday)
For those who were interested, they were able to go back to Disneyland and explore the area. Thursday night was the Opening Session where the 7800+ members, advisers, and guests were introduced to the Nation's State Presidents and Advisers of the Year.

1st Day of Competition -- (Friday)
Today was the first day of competition. The Emerging Business Issues team drew and presented around 12 noon today and the Parliamentary Procedure team took their individual objective tests. Unfortunately, neither one of the teams qualified to advance on to the final round of competition. They look forward to watching the finalist compete tomorrow and learning what they could have done better. Steven will take his objective test for Word Processing II tomorrow.

Union FBLA competed very well this year and they truly Got the Edge.

Union FBLA Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/unionfbla
Oregon FBLA Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/OregonFBLA
National FBLA-PBL Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/FBLA_PBL

SUNDAYS AWARD OF EXCELLENCE CEREMONY WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ONLINE STARTING AT 6:00PM SUNDAY EVENING. YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE!

http://www.nlc2009.com/

Day 1 of SBLC

Today was the first day of Oregon FBLA's State Business Leadership Conference in Portland, Oregon. For the Union Chapter the day started at 4 o'clock in the morning when we pulled out of the parking lot at the high school. The day continued as we arrived at our hotel after a 5 hour drive. From there the advisers and chapter president and apprentice went over to headquarters to get our conference t-shirts and name tags and conference programs. After members recieved their name tags they were off to their workshops and some of them to their events prelims.

The following students competed today:

• Business Presentation--Nicole Roberts, Tyler Fouts, & Brie Bunkers
• Client Services--Kate Stewart
• Community Service--Brittany Josephson, Anna Maxwell, & Ali Anderson
• Emerging Business Issues--Ally Brudevold, Sarah Longwell, & Jordin Lineback
• Impromptu Speaking--Celena
• Impromptu Speaking--Emma Stockhoff
  

The following students qualified for finals on Thursday:

• American Enterprise--Will Hulden, Jackie Huitt, & Cody Fouts
• E-business--Alex Palmer
• Future Business Leader--Steven Crader
• Parli Pro--Jordann Roberts, Taylor Sarman, Shanna Riomondo, Sara Bauer, & Kathryn Hepler

Union was also fortunate enough to have JaKarra Sanders sing the National Anthem at the opening session. Congratulations JaKarra and Great Job!!!!

Look for Thursday's events tomorrow!!!!

"Miss" UHS

Eyeliner, high heels, formal gowns, and some of Union high's finest young gentleman, all together, made for quite an evening at Union FBLA's "Miss" UHS Pageant. With ten contestants competing for the crown and title of Miss UHS the competition was extremely intense. The pageant was divided into three portions: talent, formal wear, and question.

The talent portion of the competition consisted of every thing from an "Our Song singing Delila" to a "Wild west roping Wilma", even a basket ball dunking Tantiana showed strutted her stuff. No one would have guessed the talent that these young men, I mean women, had and how willing they all were to show it up on stage.

The Next portion of the pageant was formal wear, which featured all of the pageant beauty's in their finest ball gowns. In this portions we learned everything about our contestants from there favorite song to their least favorite thing about being a woman, while they paraded around the stage.

Down to the three contestants we moved on to the question round with Delila (Dalton Tibbs), Kelsey (Kelson Bertrand), and Jillian (Jeremey Moore). All of the candidates did an excellent job at answering some of the toughest pageant questions. From, "What would you do with a million dollars?" to "If you had to give $50,000 to a charity which one would it be and why?" Some of the contestants even revealed how they would handle some pretty difficult social issues. The question, "How would you help to stop gang violence?" sparked the answer, "Shoot all the ganstas'," from Jillian.

That answer and Jillian's excellent performance throughout the talent and formal wear portion of the pageant earned her the crown and the title of "Miss" UHS.

Union FBLA would like to thank all of the contestants for their participation and everyone who attended the pageant. You are the core of Union FBLA and we cant thank you enough for all of your support.

Taylor Sarman
Apprentice President
Union FBLA

Regional Skills Conference Results

2009 Regional Skills Conference

The 2009 Blue Mountain Regional Skills Conference was a major success for Union High School FBLA. Out of the 31 members who competed, 20 qualified for the State Business Leadership Conference in April. Results are below.

Business Law 1st—Cheyanne Wyant 8th—Kate Stewart Computer Applications 1st—JaKarra Sanders Desktop Publishing 7th—Jessica Reynolds & Ali Anderson FBLA Principles & Procedure 1st—Sergio Morris 5th—Brie Bunkers Global Business 2nd—Cassie Colton & Jennifer Longwell Help Desk 1st—Jakarra Sanders Impromptu Speaking 3rd—Emma Stockoff Introduction to Business Communications 2nd—Jordin Lineback 3rd—Jackie Huitt 8th—Cheyanne Wyant Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure 1st—Taylor Sarman 2nd—Jordann Roberts 3rd—Sara Bauer 4th—Kate Stewart 6th—Kathryn Hepler Marketing 5th—Cassie Colton 9th—Jennifer Longwell Parliamentary Procedures (Individuals) 1st—Jordann Roberts 2nd—Taylor Sarman 3rd—Sara Bauer 5th—Kathryn Hepler 6th—Shanna Riomondo Parliamentary Procedures (Team) 1st—Union (Sara Bauer, Kathryn Hepler, Shanna Riomondo, Jordann Roberts, and Taylor Sarman) Personal Finance 6th—Shanna Riomondo Public Speaking II 1st—Caleb Harmon 5th—Briana Tanaka Word Processing II 5th—Steven Crader

Regional Skills Conference

Today is the first day of FBLA competitions this year and the first competition for many of our 41 students. Results will be posted following the event.

Results form Smear the President Contest

Results from the "Smear the President" Contest between FFA and FBLA.

Total: $233.73
FFA: $118.64
FBLA: $115.09

Congratulations FFA!!!

Click on the following link for videos and pictures to see the FBLA President get pied. http://www.union.k12.or.us/12days#Smear_the_President_Results

Leaders Link Newsletter

The Oregon State Officer team has released the winter issue of their newsletter The Leaders Link. You can find this on our website http://www.union.k12.or.us/gayle_rickman/union_fbla or http://www.oregonfbla.org.

This issues if full of scholarship information and event information.

Remember Get The Edge!

Welcome

Welcome to the Union High School FBLA Blog. This is a new project that I, as president, thought would be a good way to get information out to the members of Union FBLA on what is going on. Please check back often for updates. I look forward to sharing information with all of you.