Twelve students from Lake Superior College competed at the Business Professionals of America (BPA) State Leadership Conference held recently in Moorhead, Minnesota, earning 58 medals, including seven first place awards.

“We are extremely proud of our BPA students for their top showing at state,” said BPA Chapter Advisor Barb Struck who teaches in LSC’s business program area. “Our students competing in May at the national conference will be the culmination of ten months of business skills education, training and hard work.”

The twelve award-winning LSC students will go on to attend the  Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference, “Together We Create” in Anaheim, CA in May.  They will join more than 6,000 other conference delegates from across the nation to participate in national level business skills competitions, workshops, general sessions, and the national officer candidate campaigns and elections.

The LSC students received the following awards:

Finalist = placed 5^th through 8^th

SQL Database Fundamentals

Jake Skalbeck- 3^rd

Zachary Johnson- 4^th

Caleb Wolfe- 5th

College Accounting

Lydia Harvey- 2^nd

Quinn Facile- 3^rd

Jo Busick- Finalist

Banking & Finance

Jo Busick- 5^th

Digital Communication Concepts

Jake Skalbeck- 1^st

Caleb Wolfe- 5^th

Zachary Johnson- Finalist

Digital Marketing Concepts

Jo Busick- 1^st

Computer Security

Jake Skalbeck- 2^nd

Caleb Wolfe- Finalist

Information Technology Concepts

Caleb Wolfe- 5^th

Zachary Johnson- Finalist

Medical Office Procedures

Nicole Salo- 1^st

Athena Hartman- 3^rd

Nicole Smith- Finalist

Dawn Penttila-Brady- Finalist

Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications

Taylor Noyes- 4^th

Nicole Smith- 5^th

Fundamental Word Processing

Dawn Penttila-Brady- 2^nd

Llona Sibik- 5^th

Administrative Support Concepts

Ilona Sibik- 3^rd

Athena Hartman- 5^th

Lydia Harvey- Finalist

Caleb Wolfe- Finalist

Computer Network Technology

Jake Skalbeck- 4^th

Financial Math & Analysis Concepts

Jo Busick- 3^rd

Quinn Facile- Finalist

Business Meeting Management Concepts

Athena Hartman- 5^th

Advanced Office Systems and Procedures

Athena Hartman- 2^nd

Nicole Smith- 5^th

Business Law and Ethics

Lydia Harvey- 1^st

Quinn Facile- Finalist

PC Servicing and Troubleshooting

Jake Skalbeck- 5^th

College Payroll Accounting

Taylor Noyes- 3^rd

Visual Basic/C# Programming

Zachary Johnson- 1^st

Caleb Wolfe- 2^nd

JAVA Programming

Zachary Johnson – 2nd

Systems Administrative Using CISCO

Jake Skalbeck- Finalist

Personal Financial Management

Jo Busick – 2^nd

Computer Programming Concepts

Jake Skalbeck- 3^rd

Zachary Johnson- 4^th

Caleb Wolfe- Finalist

Fundamentals of Web Design

Zachary Johnson- 1^st

Jake Skalbeck- 2^nd

Caleb Wolfe- 4^th

Managerial Accounting

Taylor Noyes- Finalist

Management/Marketing/HR Concepts

Dan Penttila-Brady- Finalist

Ilona Sibik- Finalist

Basic Office Systems and Procedures

Ilona Sibik- 1^st

Dawn Penttila-Brady- 4^th

Intermediate Word Processing

Nicole Salo- 2^nd

Athena Hartman- 5^th

Nicole Smith- Finalist

Diagnostic Coding

Athena Hartman- 3^rd

Nicole Smith- 5^th

Business Professionals of America is a national organization for college, high school, and middle school students preparing for careers in business and information technology.  The organization’s activities and programs complement classroom instruction by giving students practical experience through application of the skills learned at school.  Business Professionals of America acts as a cohesive agent in the nationwide networking of education and business and industry. BPA is contributing to the preparation of world-class workforce through the advancement of leadership, citizenship, academic, and technological skills.