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.
