WCSCC business students continue in BPA competition
March 1, 2010
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Sixteen Wayne County Schools Career Center business students will compete at the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference March 18 and 19 after qualifying at Business Professionals of America Ohio Region 8 contests recently. The students are in Business and Marketing Technologies, with instructor Mary Lou Lisic, and Medical Office Management, with Janice Anderson.
Four students qualified for State in two categories, but may only compete in one. They were: Lauren Besancon of Smithville, Jordan Bias of Wooster, Alyssa Edwards of Smithville, and Tad Weaver of Dalton.
Besancon won first place and will compete in advanced interview skills, also placing first in medical office procedures. Monique Overstreet of Wooster placed third in medical office procedures, and will now also go to State.
Bias won first place and will compete in economic research project individual, also placing second in fundamental spreadsheets.
Edwards won first place and will compete in desktop publishing, also winning first in human resource management.
Weaver won first place and will compete in fundamental spreadsheets, also placing first in entrepreneurship. Brenton Meininger of Wooster, second place winner, will now compete in entrepreneurship at State.
Other first place State qualifiers were: Samantha Campbell of Norwayne, presentation management individual; Cera Chio of Northwestern, fundamental accounting; Christopher Graves of Wooster and Samuel Young of Norwayne, small business management team; Kirstie Kandel of Smithville and Brandy Williams of Wooster, economic research project team; Kara McCoy of Northwestern, banking and finance; David Rehm of Smithville, administrative research project.
Second place state qualifiers were: Lacey Cherilla of Smithville, keyboarding; and Haylie Messner of Wooster, banking and finance.
Winners of open events, which do not have a State contest, were:
Financial math and analysis – Weaver, first; Keith Pankuch of Wooster, second; Chio, third; Campbell, fourth; Besancon, fifth; Young, tie for seventh; Jessica Morlan of Chippewa, 10th.
Insurance concepts – Ashley Schotsch of Smithville, first; Allyson Kopina of Smithville, second.
Administrative support concepts – Jessica Horner of Wooster, fifth; Sarah Hinkel of Rittman, eighth.
Information technology concepts – Danielle Kulcsar of Chippewa, tie for fourth.
Management/marketing/human resources concepts – David Rehm of Smithville, first; Courtney Anderson of Smithville, second; Sean Miller of Wooster, third; Travis Eddy of Wooster, fourth; Kandel, fifth; Sarah Friedt of Chippewa, sixth.
Parliamentary procedures concepts – Graves, first.
Other students placing in the top 10 were:
Banking and finance – Morlan, fourth; Vanna Shaner of Triway, sixth; Graves, ninth.
Basic office systems – Chelsea Davis of Rittman, fifth.
Computer animation - Kulcsar, second.
Desktop publishing – Edwards, second.
Extemporaneous speech – Rachel Decker of Rittman, third.
Fundamental accounting – Young, third; Breanna Hershberger of Waynedale, fifth.
Fundamental spreadsheets – Kopina, fifth; Meininger, sixth.
Fundamentals of Web design – Kulcsar, seventh.
Interview skills – McCoy, third; Hershberger, fifth; Anderson, ninth.
Keyboarding - Corri Musselman of Dalton, sixth.
Medical office procedures – Stephanie Hinton of Wooster, fifth; Horner, sixth; Tiffany Tackett of Chippewa, eighth; Cheyenne Heilman of Rittman, ninth; Schotsch, 10th.
Prepared speech – Sarah Friedt of Chippewa, second.
Presentation management – Team of Jessica Sampson of Orrville and Stacy Lanham of Wooster, third.
Small business management team – Horner and Hinton, second.
Video production team – Miller, Pankuch and Eddy, second.
