Washington High School students took part in the Iowa State Leadership Conference in Des Moines earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Shelly Duwa.

Washington High School students will join 5,000 conference delegates and attend the Business Professionals of America 2016 National Leadership Conference next month. While there, Brenna Weidman, Kylee Porter and Sean Zimmer will be recognized for earning their Ambassador Level Torch awards. The students will take part in national level business skills competitions, workshops, general sessions and the national officer candidate campaigns and elections. The conference is being held in Boston May 5-9.

Washington High School BPA students are under the direction of Shelly Duwa.

Earlier this year, 33 Washington High School students competed at the Iowa State Leadership Conference in Des Moines. The chapter members attending are Peyton Cuddeback, Weidman, Porter, Zimmer, Ryan Reighard, Molly Sparks and Kaitlyn Stalder. Also, Brooke Stout was elected to serve as the 2016-2017 Iowa State Business Professionals of America Secretary-Treasurer.

Iowa State Leadership Conference results:
Morgan Brinning – 1st in prepared speech
Parliamentary Procedures team – 1st place
Peyton Cuddeback – 2nd digital publishing
Brenna Weidman – 4th digital publishing
Sarah Nacos – 3rd medical office procedures
Molly Sparks – 3rd database applicatons, 5th computer programming concepts
Kaitlyn Stalder – 2nd integrated office applications, 5th database applicationcs
Kylee Porter – 5th integrated office applications
Ryan Reighard – 6th integrated office applications
Aaron Vittetoe – 3rd integrated office applications
Jack Carter – 4th integrated office applications
Allison Vogel – 5th legal office procedures
Alexis Turner and Jacob Hall – basic office systems and procedures
Kaitlyn Stalder – database applications
Ryan Reighard, Cale Hobscheidt, Austin Hazelett, Seth Townsand and Wil Marek – integrated office applications
Makenzi Marek – interview skills
McKenna Brinning – advanced interview skills