Triton BPA students stand out at Regional Competition

Triton’s Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapter was a dominant force at their Regional Competition in January. After competing against over 300 students from ten area schools, 35 Triton BPA members have qualified for the State Leadership Conference in Minneapolis this March.
BPA is the nation’s leading career and technical student organization, providing members the opportunity to develop skills and leadership abilities, further their knowledge, and prepare for a career in a variety of areas including business administration, finance and accounting, information technology, video production, human resources, computer programming, graphic design, small business and entrepreneurship, and health services.
This year saw the largest number of students Triton has ever had compete at Regionals, as well as the largest number of State Trip winners, said Advisor Rebecca Goossens. All of those who participated deserve credit for their commitment, she said.
“These kids put in incredible amounts of time and effort into learning new skills, creating projects, and preparing for their events, and this is a huge achievement,” said Goossens.
Students competed individually and in teams in a variety of categories where they demonstrated their knowledge and a variety of skills by taking a test, creating a project, giving a speech, or presenting to a judge.
“BPA is not only a great opportunity for students to network with their peers, but every judge is also someone in the industry, so it’s a great chance for them to create relationships with leaders in the workforce they’re soon going to enter,” said Goossens.
In addition to competing, students also participated in a service drive and gave back to the community through a donation drive to Family Promise of Greater Rochester, whose mission is to assist families at risk of or experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable independence by providing person-centered, holistic services in collaboration with the greater community.
The State BPA Conference and Competition will be held March 14-16 against 2,000 other students from schools across the state.
Taking first place in the Regionals were: Computer Modeling, Katya Wheeler; Computer Security, Max Olson-Ramer; Ethics and Professionalism, Anna Anderson; Graphic Design, Camila Medina; Interview Skills, Ollie Akkerman; Prepared Speech, Alan Ortiz; Health Leadership, Dani Hallaway; Small Business Management Team, Tyler Gnagey, Dani Hallaway, Corey Lilledahl and Logan Tufte; Website Design Team, Roselyn Liudahl and Jade Scoville.
Taking Second Place were: Podcast Team, Joaquin Lundi, Max Olson-Ramer, Jairo Solano; Video Production Team, Noah Kleinwort, Alex Ortiz and Quinn Short; Visual Design Team, Bryar Quimby and Ashley Romero.
Third place winners were: Broadcast News Team, Diego Ibarra-Castillo, Litany Peterson, Aden Ronken and Jessica Willette; Computer Network Technology, Noah Kleinwort; Digital Media Production, Frankie Gann; Economic Research, Zowie Short; Fundamental Desktop Publishing, Axel Reiser; Fundamental Spreadsheet, Hector Ibarra; Podcast Team, Ava Cummings, Nancy Fernandez and Lauryn Nauman; Web Design, Noah Kleinwort.
Fourth Place winners were: Digital media Production, Miley Dostal; Presentation, Corey Lilledahl; Visual Design Team Anyely Dominguez and Alisson Velasco.
In Fifth Place were: Extemporaneous Speech, Damion Radke; Prepared Speech, Camila Medina; Visual Design Team, Miley Dostal, Frankie Gann and Logan Skjeveland.
Participation were: Accounting and Banking/Finance, Ben Croston; Health Administration, Emma Gonzalez; Prepared and Extemporaneous Speech, Sidney Naze.