Over 200 Students from 14 Schools Competed at San Tan Foothills in the FBLA Regional Competition

Alan Wittig PC, a local business owner, had a great time judging the students and wished all of the participants the best.

"Those young men and women show so much hope for the future," says LaDonna Ford.

The San Tan Foothills chapter has approximately 60 members of which 25 competed.  "Although our school is both new and small, we are extremely competitive.  We have been fortunate enough to make it to the national competitions each year.  We have bright and eager students.", says Joe Galish, FBLA Advisor.  "Hosting this conference is our chapters first opportunity to truly reach out to the community."

And reach out to the community is just what Joe Galish did too.  To reach out to local businesses and ask for their support locally, Joe spoke at the November San Tan Valley Chamber of Commerce meeting as well as at a San Tan Leads meeting, where he was able to "recruit" a number of people interested in participating as judges.  "One of the biggest concerns our local businesses have is whether or not our schools are producing a pool of future employees.  This was a great opportunity for our members to see for themselves, what programs like FBLA, are doing to mold our future workforce", says Tisha Castillo, President/CEO of the San Tan Valley Chamber of Commerce.  "We were honored to be asked to participate."

We'd like to thank all of the students, advisors and judges for coming to our beautiful part of the world and for participating in FBLA.

Congratulations to all of the winners and we wish you the best of luck as you move on to the State Competition!

Below are the winners from our local high schools that competed:  San Tan Foothills and Poston Butte High School.

San Tan Foothills Winners:

Poston Butte High Winners:

Team performance event winners

Denise Castaneda, Erish Abuan - 2nd place Entrepreneurship

Rawlin hewitt, Kyle Walker - 2nd place Marketing

Jasmine Sansbury, Devci Salgado, Nancy Perez and Latavia Ellis - 2nd place Parliamentary Procedures

Individual performance event winners -

Rawlin Hewitt - 1st place Public Speaking II

Written test event winners -

Rawlin Hewitt - 3rd place Economics

Nancy Perez - 1st place Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures

Latavia Ellis - 2nd place Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures

Florence High Winners

Individual performance event winners

Sibyl Cornell - 1st place Networking Concepts, 1st place Business Communications

Chris Chapline - 1st place Cyber Security, 1st place Technology Concepts

Alex Indorf - 2nd place Sports Management

Zack White - 3rd place Computer Problem Solving

Eddie Mackay - 3rd place Technology Concepts

Madison Krosky - 3rd place Sports Management

Team performance event winners

Eddie Mackay, Zack White - 1st place Management Decision Making

Cherie Warren, Elyanna Juarez - 1st place Network Design

Chris Chapline, Sibyl Cornell, Ivan Morales, Alex Indorf - 1st place Parliamentary Procedures