Business Professionals of America State contest was held in Des Moines Feb. 18-20. Fourteen students from Lisbon competed in more than 40 different events.
“We had five students qualify, and one alternative, for nationals in Chicago May 10-14,” said Amanda Zenisek, business teacher at Lisbon. “They did an amazing job and worked hard on the events.”
There were more than 570 students at the event competing from all sizes of schools across the entire state.
Events Lisbon participated in included:
** indicates a national qualifying event.
Team Events
• Website design team – Blake Harms, Ben Jubeck
• **Computer animation team – Riley Stone, Chris Ricke, Bennett Cart
• Podcast product team – Ava Cossolotto, Maeve Krogmann, Morgan Kelley
• Presentation team – Natalie Pumphrey, Sydney Techau
Individual Events
• Bennett Cart – extemporaneous speech, health research presentation, **health administration concepts
• Ava Cossolotto – fundamental desktop publishing, meeting and event planning concepts
• Payton Donohoe – **medical coding, **health insurance and medical billing, **health administration procedures, **health administration concepts
• Blake Harms – advanced accounting, banking and finance, personal finance management, financial math and analysis concepts
• Kooper Harms – **computer security, administration support concepts, digital communication and design
• Hayden Jackson – fundamental accounting, banking and finance, personal finance management, financial math and analysis concepts
• Ben Jubeck – fundamental accounting, basic office systems and procedures, management, marketing, and human resources concepts
• Morgan Kelley- graphic design promotion, digital communication and design
• Maeve Krogmann- prepared speech, digital communication and design
• Addison Mullis- graphic design promotion, meeting and event planning concepts
• Natalie Pumphrey- health research presentation, health administration concepts
• Chris Ricke- **computer modeling, financial math and analysis concepts
• Riley Stone – meeting and event planning concepts
• Sydney Techau- graphic design promotion (4th/5th place – alternative for nationals), financial math and analysis concepts
Lisbon advances five to national BPA conference
February 29, 2024
About the Contributor
Nathan Countryman, Editor
Nathan Countryman is the Editor of the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun.