Contributed photo by Cheney High School FBLA adviser Adam Smith Award winners from left to right: Joe Riddle, Mitch Lawrence, Jackson Spencer, Connor Gerstenkorn, Hannah Blazon, Kendra Kendall, Leanna Eik, Mac Frederick and Colton Dotson.
The Cheney High School FBLA Club (Future Business Leaders of America) took part in the FBLA National Business Leadership conference June 29 – July 2 in Chicago. The conference was attended by a record 11,500 students and advisors.
In competition, Cheney had 18 students compete at the conference. At the FBLA Awards of Excellence Ceremony, nine different CHS students placed in the top 10 nationally in seven events. Colton Dotson was the highest placer, finishing third place in the nation for his work on Microsoft Excel. In the Database Design category, Joe Riddle and Mac Frederick finished fifth and seventh, respectively. It was the first time Cheney has had two students on stage at the same time at nationals.
Leanna Eik once again placed at Nationals after she and Kendra Kendall finished 10th in Life Smarts. Eik is only the second Cheney FBLA club member to place at Nationals twice while Kendall placed for the first time in her career. Jackson Spencer also placed for the first time at Nationals after he took seventh in Sales Presentation.
Other place winners include Mitch Lawrence, Microsoft Office Specialist Word, fourth and Hannah Blazon and Connor Gerstenkorn, Public Service Announcement, ninth.
The Cheney chapter members won $500 in prize money for how well they placed in the competition. The club had the second-most people place in Washington state.
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