Gallatin FBLA places 30 members in top 10 at virtual state leadership conference; 19 qualify for national competition in June

May 13, 2020 | School News | 0 comments

Maddi Michael Elected to Serve as the 2020-21 Missouri FBLA Vice President of Communications
The Gallatin FBLA Chapter recently participated in the 2020 Missouri FBLA-PBL Virtual State Leadership Conference. This virtual experience provided members from across Missouri with over 200 hours of educational and leadership content, live forums with industry leaders, and interactive educational activities in an online platform.
Over 3,500 students and advisers came together for the event, with over 150 business education related contests running during the virtual conference; contest topics range from accounting to website design, marketing to mobile application development. 2020 marked the first year the conference was not held in person.
Maddison Michael, daughter of Doug and Angel Michael, completed her term as the 2019-20 Missouri FBLA State Secretary. She was elected to continue her leadership journey on the 2020-21 State Leadership Team as the Missouri FBLA Vice President of Communications. She will be installed as a state officer virtually later this week.
Due to the virtual nature of the conference, competitions had to be modified. State objective testing events had already been completed online during the first week of March. Many FBLA events contain an objective test or a prejudged submission in combination with an oral presentation component. This year, those events were modified and scored off of the prejudged submission or test component alone, which had been submitted on March 6 just prior to Gallatin R-5 being dismissed for Covid-19. A handful of events contain only an oral presentation. Those events which consisted of a team were modified into an essay competition due to the stay-at-home order and the inability to get members together to record their presentation. However, for the solo speaking events, members were required to submit videos to be judged.
On May 7, a live virtual Awards of Excellence Ceremony was held to celebrate and honor FBLA members across the state excelling in their competitive events. Overall, Gallatin FBLA brought home two state championships and many more top 10 awards, including:
1st Place – State Champions, American Enterprise Project, Brianna Filley, Cloey Waterbury, and Olivia Woody; 1st Place – State Champions, Emerging Business Issues, Jessica Hart, Gloria Hernandez, and Karina Hacking.


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2nd Place – Community Service Project, Madalyn Shubert, Annie Nelson, and Caragan Baker;

3rd Place – Electronic Career Portfolio, Macie McNeely; 3rd Place – Future Business Leader, Maddi Michael; 3rd Place – Parliamentary Procedures, Madalyn Shubert, Jenna Rains, Caragan Baker, Elle Copple, and PJ Johnson; 3rd Place – Partnership With Business, Maddi Michael, Addison Riley, and Presley Wells; 3rd Place – Who’s Who in Missouri FBLA, Maddi Michael;

4th Place – Mobile Application Development, Johnna Tadlock, Alli Baker, and Ella Bradford;
5th Place – Business Financial Plan, Annie Nelson, Ross Critten, and Tristen Gibson; 5th Place – Graphic Design, Sarah Morrison, Johnna Tadlock, and McKinley Waters;
6th Place – Introduction to Business Presentation, Taylor Morrison, Ella Bradford, and Santanna Youngs; 6th Place – Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures, Libby Wilson;
7th Place – Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures, Elle Copple; 7th Place – Management Information Systems, Haden Bradford, Drayton Harris, and Brinley Vandiver.
Missouri FBLA will mail all state medals/awards to local chapters to be distributed to chapter members earning recognition at the 2020 Virtual FBLA State Leadership Conference. The National Leadership Conference, originally scheduled for the end of June in Salt Lake City, has also been moved to a virtual platform. Gallatin FBLA is led by local chapter adviser, Barb Holcomb.
Missouri FBLA-PBL, a chartered member of National FBLA-PBL, is a registered 501(c)3. Their mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs. Missouri FBLA-PBL membership exceeds 15,500, making it the second largest state chapter of the organization in the nation and the second largest CTSO in Missouri.

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