Hermiston High School FBLA students competed in the Oregon FBLA State Leadership Conference with two HHS students crowned state champions, and 13 students qualifing for the FBLA National Leadership Conference, scheduled for June in Atlanta.
The conference was held in Portland April 3-8.
Gisselle Rivera is the Spreadsheet Applications state champion, and Kaitlyn Crowther is the state champion in Introduction to Business Concepts. Other national qualifiers are:
- Pride Shelley – 2nd in Accounting II
- Kurt Clayson – 2nd in Introduction to Marketing Concepts
- Aiden Ryan – 3rd in Cyber Security and 3rd in Network Infrastructure
- Adriana Gutiérrez – 3rd in Digital Video Production
- Yahir Conejo-Garcia – 3rd in Introduction to Information Technology
- Seven Bahr – 3rd in Word Processing
- Cody Adams – 4th in Accounting II
- Liana Jiménez – 4th in Advertising
- Joseph Markwith – 4th in Cyber Security
- Gisselle Rivera – 4th in Word Processing
The team of Pride Shelley & Fatima Venegas-Navejas earned a trip to nationals, placing third in Entrepreneurship.
Along with the national qualifiers, HHS had the following students place at state.
- Seven Bahr – 5th in Cyber Security
- Omar Silva Isabeles – 5th in Securities & Investments
- Miranda Vivar – 6th in Word Processing
- Joseph Markwith – 6th in Computer Problem Solving
- Kurt Clayson – 6th in Introduction to Business Procedures
- Adriana Gutiérez – 7th in Broadcast Journalism
- Yahir Conejo-García – 7th in Website Design
- Kaitlyn Crowther – 10th in Introduction to Event Planning
Adrianna Coleman, Liana Jiménez, and Fátima Venegas-Navejas teamed together to earn fifth in Marketing.
“The students should be very proud of their accomplishments as a first-year chapter,” said FBLA adviser Denise Thornton. “They all worked very hard and most of them sacrificed half of their Spring Break to attend the state conference.”
