Sixty-four high school students in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation advanced to the Indiana State Business Professionals of America (BPA) contest scheduled for March in Indianapolis after qualifying at the district contest this past weekend. If the students place at the state level, they will compete at the national level in Orlando, Fla., in May.
The students earned the opportunity to advance by competing in the district competition held Saturday, January 12, at Ivy Tech Community College. Students participated in numerous areas, including payroll and fundamental accounting, desktop publishing, spreadsheet analysis, PC serving and troubleshooting and many more. More than 400 students competed at the district event from multiple counties in Southwest Indiana, including Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Knox, Davies and Martin.
Following is a complete list of EVSC students who advanced to state
Dilyne Barton 2nd – Parliamentary Procedure 5th – Medical Office Procedures Bosse High School
Dakota Berry 9th – Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications 10th – Financial Math and Analysis Bosse High School
David Greenwood 1st – Small Business Management Team Bosse High School
Hannah Kenoyer 8th – Information Technology Concepts 10th – Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications Bosse High School
Nature Marshall 8th – Insurance Concepts Bosse High School
Madison Osbourne 6th – Medical Office Procedures Bosse High Schoool
Hannah Riffle 1st – Small Business Management Team 2nd – Interview Skills Bosse High School
Krissy Terry 1st – Small Business Management Team 3rd – Project Management Concepts 6th – Financial Math and Analysis
Bosse High School
Taylor Waddel 7th – Fundamental Accounting Central High School
Alanna Payne 8th – Fundamental Accounting Central High School
Hillary Smith 1st – Advanced Accounting 2nd – Advanced Interview Skills Central High School
Cory Simmons 2nd – Payroll Accounting 5th – Advanced Office Systems & Procedures Central High School
AJ Crowell 4th – Fundamental Spreadsheet 11th – Database Applications Central High School
Elizabeth Ryder 2nd – Fundamental Word Processing Central High School
Jacob Albin 10th – Fundamental Word Processing Central High School
Jennifer Blythe 10th – Database Applications Central High School
Jacob Anderson
Josh Bertram
Connor Clements 1st – Broadcast News Team Central High School
Allie Wigginton 3rd – Graphic Design Promotion Central High School
Lakota Ironrope
Cody Kennedy
Andre McVey
Austin VanBritson 1st – Presentation Management Team Central High School
Josh Degenhart
Reed Leonhardt
Sam Murillo
Owen Newman Top 12 – Website Design Team Central High School
Cameron Gilreath 3rd – Job Interview 3rd – Presentation Management – Individual Harrison High School
Dylan Blankenship 1st – Advanced Desktop Publishing North High School
Chase Clayton 2nd – Advanced Desktop Publishing North High School
Caleb Chambers 3rd – Advanced Desktop Publishing North High School
Brett Millikan 1st – Entrepreneurship North High School
Derek Tapley 1st – Systems Administration – Cisco North High School
Cody Adler, Tyler Melton and Ryan Koestring 3rd – Video Production – Team North High School
Klara Williamson 4th – Advanced Spreadsheet Applications 5th – Fundamental Word Processing Skill North High School
Jackson Treadway 4th – Fundamental Word Processing Skills 6th – Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications North High School
Garrett Young 7th – Fundamentals of Desktop Publishing North High School
Tyler Melton 8th – Fundamentals of Desktop Publishing North High School
Howard Yeh 1st – Interview Skills 8th – Financial Math & Analysis Reitz High School
Sammy Tadros 1st – Financial Math & Analysis 2nd – Economic Research Team 7th – Medical Office Procedures Reitz High School
Mitchell Schnarr 2nd – Economic Research Team Reitz High School
Garrett Goebel 2nd – Economic Research Team Reitz High School
Noah Weisling 2nd – Global Marketing Research Team 6th – Parlimentary Procedures Reitz High School
Matt Parker 2nd – Global Marketing Research Team 2nd – Information Technology Concepts Reitz High School
Marek Rathousky 3rd – Fundamental Accounting 3rd – Payroll Accounting Reitz High School
Jacob Rusk 5th – Fundamental Spreadsheets Reitz High School
Clayton Carlton 5th – Integrated Office Applications Reitz High School
Bailey Jones 6th – Advanced Office Procedures Reitz High School
Kate Lutz 3rd – Advanced Office Procedures 3rd – Medical Office Procedures Reitz High School
Liberty Wiley 8th – Legal Office Procedures Reitz High School
Rebecca Cobb 6th – Legal Office Procedures Reitz High School
Blake Huggins 5th – Legal Office Procedures Reitz High School
Evan Logue 4th – Legal Office Procedures Reitz High School
Caitlyn DeMoss 1st – Human Resource Management 2nd – Small Business Management Team Reitz High School
Ben Campbell 2nd – Small Business Management Team Reitz High School
Ty Martin 2nd – Small Business Management Team Reitz High School
Madaline Bogan 1st – Presentation Management – Individual Reitz High School
Allie Winstead 2nd – Presentation Management Team Reitz High School
Kate Carnahan 2nd – Presentation Management Team Reitz High School
Brie Phillips 2nd – Presentation Management Team Reitz High School
Kaitlyn Bryan 2nd – Presentation Management Team Reitz High School
Business Professionals of America is the national career/technical student organization for students preparing for careers in the business world.
