Fairfield’s FBLA attends National Leadership Conference

Twenty-five students from Fairfield High School along with more than 10,000 of America's best and brightest high school students traveled to San Antonio on June 28th to attend The Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference June 29–July 2, 2019. Participants from across the United States and abroad attended this exciting conference to enhance their business skills, expand their networks, and participate in more than 70 business and business-related competitive events.

Our FHS students did an amazing job competing. We had 3 students in our group make finalists. We also had 3 that took 60-minute objective tests that were administered onsite at NLC.

Lauren Kraemer and Drake Drish made finalist in their presentation on Publication Design and Madison Kraemer made finalist in her presentation on Broadcast Journalism. Laurel Hilger received national recognition at the FBLA Awards of Excellence Program on July 2. Laurel competed in Computer Applications and brought home Sixth place.

These comprehensive national competitive events give recognition to and reward excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. For many students, the competitive events are the capstone activity of their academic careers. We are all so very proud of all of our conference attendees and their accomplishments!

We also want to thank our 4 chaperones – Diana Drish, Staci Kraemer, Ed Matthews and Joni Stever – for coming along with us and helping every step of the way. We couldn't have done it without them!

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These are the 25 students who went to FBLA Nationals:

Hannah Bergren

Erica Bochmann

Danielle Breen

David Burnett

Danae Drish

Drake Drish

Clare Else

Claire Epperson

Julia Fritz

Laurel Hilger

Spencer Hilger

Olivia Jones

Lauren Kraemer

Madison Kraemer

Kevin Kretz

Ahillan Kumar

Amiritha Kumar

Gracee Lisk

Estrella Oropeza

Claire Pettit

Devika Pharasi

Sai Pullapantula

Sophie Stever

Jakob Watson

Liam Wells

Laurel Hilger wins award

FHS senior Laurel Hilger received national recognition at the FBLA Awards of Excellence Program on July 2. Laurel competed in Computer Applications and brought home Sixth place. Laurel completed a 2-part test. The first part was a production test administered and proctored at Fairfield High School prior to the NLC and a 60-minute objective test administered onsite at NLC.

All of us at Fairfield High School are very proud of Laurel and her achievements.