Fourteen students from the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will be among approximately 5,000 high school students competing at the Business Professionals of America (BPA) national conference, May 6 – 10 in Anaheim, Calif.
The following students have qualified to compete at the conference. The award they won at the state level and school is noted below.
- Howard Yeh, Administrative Support Concepts, 1st place; Entrepreneurship, 2nd place, Reitz High School
- Matthew Parker, Computer Security, 1st place; Systems Administration Using Cisco, 4th place, Reitz High School
- Lakota Ironrope, Andrew McVey, Cody Kennedy and Austin VanBritson, Presentation Management Team, 2nd place, Central High School
- Hope Lucker, Individual Presentation Management, 2nd place, North High School
- Brian Ward, Systems Administration Using Cisco, 2nd place, North High School
- Caroline Knight, Business Meeting Management, 2nd place, Reitz High School
- Abbie Wilson, Digital Publishing, 3rd place, North High School
- Katherine Klamer, Keyboarding Production, 5th place, Bosse High School
- Kameron Dickens, Digital Publishing, 5th place, North High School
- Bryce Hart, Advanced Spreadsheet Concepts, 5th place, Reitz High School
- Lucas Weinzapfel, Parliamentary Concepts, 9th place, Reitz High School
The students advanced to the national competition by competing against nearly 1,500 students at the state level in Indianapolis this week. In order to advance, students had to finish in the top two for teamed events, the top three for judged events and the top five for written or computer tests. There also is an “open contest†where students who place in the top 10 are recognized with the option of attending the national competition.
