Froid Business Professionals of America traveled to the State Leadership Conference on Saturday, March 12, 2022. Ninety eight schools were represented at the state conference with just over 1,100 students in attendance from all classes. Students competed in written, computerized tests, interviews and one presentation on Sunday at MSU-Billings. One Monday there were additional presentations, leadership workshops, awards were given to honor chapter presidents and to members who had achieved the Statesman level in the Torch program. Bode Miller was honored as president. Bode Miller, Abigail Strandlund, Javonne Nesbit, and Brett Stentoft received their Statesman award.
Tuesday morning was the awards presentation. The top ten for written or computerized events are called to the stage and the top five qualify for nationals. The top ten for individual live judged events are called on stage, but only three qualify for nationals. Finally, for team events, five teams are called to the stage and two teams qualify for nationals. Our results are as follows:
Abby Strandlund- 10th in Advanced Accounting, 15th Payroll Accounting
Javonne Nesbit- 20th in Advanced Office Systems
Elise Logan- 12th in Advanced Word Processing, 17th Podcast Production Team, 3rd Advanced Spreadsheet Applications (National Qualifier)
Carolyne Christoffersen- 19th Advanced Word Processing
Cian Logan- 7th Entrepreneurship, 1st Integrated Office Procedures (National Qualifier),
Brookelynn Nordwick- 9th Entrepreneurship, 2nd Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications (National Qualifier), 4th Website Design Team
Solomon Grainger- 11th Entrepreneurship, 11th Advanced Spreadsheet Applications.
Addison Elvsaas-6th Fundamental Desktop Publishing, 13th Fundamental Word Processing, 4th Website Design Team,
Mara Salvevold- 11th Fundamental Desktop Publishing, 18th Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications, 4th Website Design Team
Jacob Martensen- 16th Fundamental Desktop Publishing, 9th Website Design Team
Joseph Robertson- 9th Website Design Team
Milo Stangeland- 9th Website Design Team
Roberto Orozco- 9th Website Design Team
Makaylee Elvsaas- 4th Integrated Office Applications (National Qualifier), 17th Podcast Production Team
Jennifer Guzeman- 12th Integrated Office Applications, 8th Multimedia Production
Patton Bighorn- 11th Intermediate Word Processing
Sadie Ullmer- 20th Advanced Spreadsheet Applications
Jaeleigh Davidson- 11th Advanced Desktop Publishing
Kaylee Olson-12th Advanced Desktop Publishing
Mason Dethman-13th Advanced Desktop Publishing
Our chapter would like to thank the community for supporting us this year. We would also like to thank Mr. Duane Larsen for driving our bus and Ms. Marilyn Olsen for helping at state as assistant advisor.