On Saturday, February 9th, the Pierce High School Chapter of FBLA competed at the California FBLA Northern Section Conference. Seven students represented Pierce, this year choosing to appear in a new “uniform”. The team consisted of 9th Graders Lillian Arens and Kiley Wilkerson; 10th Grader Annalise Danner; 11th Graders Santos Merino and Alejandro Centeno; and 12th Grader Cody Stafford.
All students chose objective test events to compete in including Health Care Administration, Business Financial Math, Business Communication, Marketing and Entrepreneurship. One student chose to compete in a speaking event. In objective test events, the top 5 students qualify to compete at the State Conference in April. In speaking events, the top 2 qualify to compete at the State level.
Rankings for all students have not been released yet, but all students felt confident of their performance. Santos Merino placed 2nd place in Impromptu Speaking, qualifying for State.
Cody Stafford competed in Entrepreneurship and Marketing. Both of these events are team events. While all other schools had three people on each team competing, Cody chose to compete as a solo competitor. He placed 4th in BOTH competitions and qualifying to compete at the State level. There he will participate in a second round of objective testing against the other sections in California. The top 10 of that test will move on to a presentation round for finals.
Best of luck to the Pierce High School FBLA Team!