Grayslake Central Students Perform Well at FBLA State Conference

Future Business Leaders of America members and advisers from 65 high schools attended the Sixty-seventh Illinois Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference at the Crowne Plaza, Springfield, Illinois, on Friday and Saturday, March 24-25. Over 1,400 members, advisers, and guests from 71 Illinois FBLA chapters registered for the conference. The two-day state conference, with “Legacy of Leadership” as the theme, included activities in personal development, business and leadership training, election of 2017-2018 state officers, and many competitive events.

During the awards program at the conference, Grayslake Central High School FBLA members won the following individual and team competitive events:

• Matt Symonds-1st place Intro to Business (National Qualifier)
• Thomas Nandola, Tom Todd, Jon Todd-4th place E-Business (National Qualifier)
• Megan Lefebvre and Kelsey Ford-5th place Website Design
• Grayson Kern-5th place Client Service
• Ray Bradley-6th place Economics
• Greta Model-10th place Journalism

Megan Lefebvre and Evan Nordman served as voting delegates at the conference in the election of the 2016-2017 Illinois FBLA State Officers. These officers will serve on the 2017-2018 Illinois FBLA Executive Council and their advisers will serve on the Board of Directors.

FBLA-PBL is the largest student business organization in the world with more than a quarter of a million members! FBLA prepares students for "real world" professional experiences.

For more information, contact Grayslake Central Principal, Dan Landry at dlandry@d127.org.