Business Professionals of America (BPA) students at Lake Superior College earned 76 awards at the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference held recently in Moorhead, Minnesota. The awards included seven First Place Awards in Database Applications, College Accounting, Interview Skills, ICD-10-CMDiagnostic Coding, SQL Database Concepts, Visual Basic/C# Programming and Fundamentals of Web Design.

The thirteen award-winning LSC students will attend the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference, “Dream Bigger” in Dallas, May 9 to May 12.  They will join more than 5,000 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.

“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.”

LSC students received the following awards:

First through fourth place awards qualifies for national competition

Finalist = placed 5^th through 8^th

Database Applications
Matt Bethke – 1st
Zack Zosel – 2nd
Zach Johnson – 3rd

College Accounting
Taylor Noyes – 1st

Banking & Finance
Garrett Bock – finalist
Garrett Menze – finalist

Fundamental Word Processing Skills
Nicole Smith – 3rd
Casey Boyat – 4th

Intermediate Word Processing
Amanda Sundin – finalist

Computer Security
Garrett Menze – 3rd
Matt Bethke – 5th

PC Servicing & Troubleshooting
Zach Johnson – finalist
Zack Zosel – finalist

Medical Office Procedures
Tom Johnson – 2nd
Nicole Salo – 3rd
Nicole Smith – 4th
Casey Boyat – 5th

Information Technology
Garrett Menze – 5th
Matt Bethke – finalist
Amanda Sundin – finalist
Zack Zosel – finalist

Interview Skills
Amanda Sundin – 1st
Nicole Smith – finalist

Computer Network Technology
Matt Bethke — finalist

Financial Math & Analysis
Garrett Menze – finalist

Administrative Support Team #2 – 2nd
Casey Boyat
Tom Johnson
Nicole Smith
Amanda Sundin

Team # 1 –finalist
Garrett Bock
Taylor Noyes
Nicole Salo

ICD-10-CM Diagnostic Coding
Tom Johnson – 1st
Nicole Smith – 3rd
Nicole Salo – 5th
Casey Boyat – finalist

JAVA Programming
Dakota Decker – 2nd
Zach Johnson – 3rd

Administrative Support Concepts
Casey Boyat – finalist
Tom Johnson – finalist
Garrett Menze – finalist

C++
Zach Johnson – 2nd
Dakota Decker – 4th
Caleb Wolfe – 5th

Visual Basic/C# Programming
Zach Johnson – 1st
Dakota Decker – 2nd
Caleb Wolfe – 3rd

Graphic Design Promotions
Zack Zosel – 3rd
Matt Bethke – finalist

SQL Database Concepts
Dakota Decker – 1st
Zack Zosel – 3rd
Matt Bethke – 4th
Zach Johnson – finalist
Caleb Wolfe – finalist

Human Resource Management
Garrett Bock – 2nd

Computer Programming Concepts
Matt Bethke – 2nd
Zach Johnson – 4th
Garrett Menze – 5th

Fundamentals of Web Design
Dakota Decker – 1st
Matt Bethke – 2nd
Zach Johnson – 3rd
Zack Zosel – 4th
Caleb Wolfe – 5th

Business Meeting Management
Amanda Sundin – finalist

Systems Using CISCO
Matt Bethke – 4th

Parliamentary Procedure Concepts
Garrett Menze – 2nd
Amanda Sundin – finalist

Management/Marketing/Human Resources
Garrett Menze – 2nd
Amanda Sundin – 4th
Tom Johnson – finalist

Project Management Concepts
Garrett Menze – finalist
Amanda Sundin – finalist

Network Administration with Microsoft
Zack Zosel – finalist

Basic Office Systems
Nicole Smith – 4th
Casey Boyat – 5th
Tom Johnson – finalist
Nicole Salo – finalist

Ethics & Professionalism
Tom Johnson – finalist

Federal Income Tax
Taylor Noyes – finalist

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 a world-class workforce through the advancement of leadership, citizenship, academic, and technological skills.