On Saturday February 5th at 6:30 A.M. many Kingman Future Business Leaders of America members departed for Canton-Galva to participate in the FBLA District Competition. Every year before State competition, FBLA competes at the district level to test members' skills in events that are affiliated with business areas. Each test has anywhere from 25-50 other students competing to prove their awareness of the corporate world.

Overall Kingman High School took 3rd place. Another remarkable accomplishment was how well the first year members competed. Some finished in the top ten of several categories. First year members Carlene Dick, Alex Harden, Calli Harrel, Christian Maude, Allison Molitor, Stan Obrock, Mike Meng, Maegan Osner, Justin Resciniti, Sara Rohlman, Rachel Schrag, Julian Smith, and Taten Stamm all competed well and placed with in the top ten of most of their events. District brought many of these newbies to challenge themselves. Without extensive knowledge of FBLA or business procedures, many had not a clue of what they were getting into when first arriving at Canton-Galva High, but these members gave their best effort and represented Kingman FBLA fabulously. Senior Christian Maude stated, "For this being my first FBLA competition it was fun! The competitions weren't as hard as I thought, and I would definitely do it again."

Other schools competing at the district were: Andover, Andover Central, Arkansas City, Belle Plaine, Buhler, Canton-Galva, Centre, Chaparral, Goddard, Great Bend, Herington, Hesston, Inman, Marion, Nickerson, Sacred Heart, and Udall. Listed below are individual standouts and team placing.

TEAM EVENTS

Parliamentary Procedures -4th: Devin Andersen, Paige Bornholdt, Carlene Dick, Christian Maude, & Sami Ybarra

Desktop Publishing -2nd: Sarah Schrag & Meredith Voran

Entrepreneurship -2nd: Julian Smith, Taten Stamm, Tony Williams, Stan Obrock, & Alex Wing

Management Decision Making –2nd: Christian Maude, Julian Smith, & Taten Stamm

Global Business -4th: Jessica Berry & Taten Stamm

Business Ethics -1st: Jessica Berry & Taten Stamm

INDIVIDUAL STANDOUTS

Paige Bornholdt- Personal Finance 5th, Technology Concepts 7th, Business Calculations 9th

Carlene Dick- Introduction to Business 7th, Public Speaking 8th

Kent Girard- FBLA Principles and Procedures 9th

Alex Harden- Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures 10th

Calli Harrel- FBLA Principles and Procedures 8th

Christian Maude- Impromptu Speaking 1st, Job Interview 2nd

Mike Meng- Introduction to Business 9th, Word Processing I 9th

Allison Molitor- Impromptu Speaking 2nd

Dayton Nett- Accounting II 3rd, Personal Finance 7th, Business Calculations 10th

Stan Obrock- Word Processing I 5th

Maegan Osner- Introduction to Technology Concepts 4th, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures 4th

Justin Resciniti- Banking and Financial 7th

Sara Rohlman- Introduction to Business Communications 2nd, Business Math 5th, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures 7th

Latashia Ryan- Public Speaking I 9th, Public Speaking II 10th

Allen Schonlau- Cyber Security 8th

Rachel Schrag- Introduction to Business Communications 6th

Sarah Schrag- Job Interview 4th, Future Business Leader 5th, Database Applications 6th, Computer Applications 8th, Word Processing II 8th, Spreadsheet Applications 9th

Julian Smith- Introduction to Technology Concepts 9th

Taten Stamm- Banking and Financial 2nd, Personal Finance 4th, Business Law 8th

Meredith Voran- Word Processing II 2nd, Computer Applications 4th, Database Applications 5th, Spreadsheet Applications 6th

Erin Wells- FBLA Principles and Procedures 2nd

Tony Williams- Impromptu Speaking 5th

Alex Wing- Cyber Security 5th

Other Kingman FBLA members that participated include the following: Madison Boyer, Bailey Branstetter, John Fairchild, Lisa Friesen, Abbie Jett, Talia Kruger, Hunter Noblit, and Drew Trollope

President Meredith Voran, senior, stated, "We did extremely well at District, especially since this was the first time for most of our members to attend district. This momentum gives us high hopes for state."

Looking to the future, members are preparing for the State Leadership Conference in Topeka on March 30 - 31. Members will compete in the same events as listed above. With success at district, members look to continue their winnings to the State level and hopefully guarantee themselves a spot in the top three of their event to qualify for the National Leadership Conference. Competition at the state level will include some of the same competitors from district along with seven additional districts of similar size.