The Lisbon Business Professionals of America attended the National Business Professionals of America leadership conference May 10 through May 14 in Chicago, Ill.
Riley Stone, Payton Donohoe and teacher Amanda Zenisek gave an update on BPA activities at Lisbon earlier this year at the May 8 Lisbon School board meeting.
This is the second year of BPA at Lisbon Schools.
“I’m just so proud of the students and what they’ve done in two years,” Zenisek said.
Students qualified for nationals based on what they accomplished at the state leadership conference in February in Des Moines.
Donohoe qualified in numerous events related to medical coding and diagnoses.
“In medical coding, I had a book of the 2000 codes that I could refer to during the test,” Donohoe said. “During the insurance task, I had to fill out a health insurance claim and the process to do that. Medical terminology was knowing the diseases that might have been mentioned.”
Donohoe will compete at nationals in a handful of those events. He arrived Saturday, May 11, following his graduation from Kirkwood Community College.
Stone was one of the students who worked on the animation project at the state competition.
“I didn’t necessarily want to be part of BPA because it seemed like a lot of work on top of my schooling,” Stone said.
He worked with Bennett Cart and Chris Ricke on the animation of the project in the Blendr computer program for animation.
The animation had to be over one minute and fifteen seconds and highlight certain editing techniques.
“My biggest struggle was the limb animation on the fox,” Stone said.
As well, the computers at Lisbon struggled to render images at times in the animation process, with numerous crashes.
Stone, Cart and Ricke had time to take feedback from state to work on fixing their animation and submit that for the national competition.
Ava Cossolotto took part in a graphic design challenge for BPA. Cossolotto has been doing the layout for the Lisbon student newspaper this school year on her own. Cossolotto did extremely well in the design challenge as presented.
Ricke will also compete at nationals for his computer modeling design for an animal enclosure.
The school will compete in five total events at national competition, including a scholarship opportunity for seniors with BPA.
Superintendent Autumn Pino congratulated students for representing Lisbon at the state and national competitions.
“You doing this is why the school board is here,” Pino said.
Building project update
Construction is still on pace to being completed at the beginning of the coming school year.
Lisbon superintendent Autumn Pino said work is going right now to fine tune items like the mural wall and classroom furniture and furniture in common spaces.
“We have liked what the designers presented, but we’re at the fine tuning area to get what is most visually appealing,” Pino said. “Especially the lettering for the mural wall which will highlight the donors for the Andreas Center and this new construction.”
Board member John Baker said that the construction is now all above ground, which means fewer and fewer unforeseen items will pop up in the project.
“It also means we’re looking at some of the items that were value engineered out of the project to see if there are things it makes sense to return to the project,” Baker said.
One of the areas that may be addressed is the carpet in the hallway between the Andreas Center and the high school entrance, as the high foot traffic hallway reflects how often it is used in the building.
Lisbon students attending national Business Professionals of America conference
Nathan Countryman, Editor
May 16, 2024
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Nathan Countryman, Editor
Nathan Countryman is the Editor of the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun.