Business Professionals of America is the leading CTSO (Career and Technical Student Organization) for students wanting to further their potential in business related fields such as business management, office administration, information technology, as well as design and computer related fields. BPA is open for students starting from a middle school level, and up through college, with 72 different categories for students to pick from and compete in.
Students from 22 states start out at a regional level, and move on from there.
“Students who place in top 2 in tests or top 1 for judged events go to state. State competition includes top qualifiers from all regions in state of Ohio. The top 2-5 (depending on category) in each category at state go to nationals,” business teacher, Brittany Selhorst explains.
Kings typically has around 80 students compete each year from 5 different teachers. Some of the more popular categories being IT, Digital Media, Small Business, and Marketing. This year 26 students are moving on to the state level of the competition, among them are digital media art student, Mackenzie Mettey, and business student, William Forgham.
Mettey is a second year competitor, and her group did a video production about the dangers of drinking and driving.
“My group and I then had to take this topic and make a promotional package and video that revolved around said topic,” Mettey says. “We did some really cool effects this year! We took some underwater shots with a Hero4 GoPro and even shot some slow motion effects of glass breaking that didn’t make the final cut.”
Forgham and his group are first time competitors who did the global marketing category and had to design and market a new team for the NHL.
“We had to pick a location based off of supportive data, then design a team name and logo,” said Forgham.
Both groups put in a tremendous amount of effort as they worked on the project almost every weekday for a month. Though it is a competition, students are able to learn real world experience from the projects they choose.
“We chose global marketing because all four of us had taken some form of a business class, so we figured we could go into this with plenty of prior knowledge, but we’d also get the opportunity to learn plenty of new things about the business world.” Said Forgham.
Through hard work and dedication, both teams will be advancing to state on March 17-18 and hopefully on to the national level from May 5-9.
Students who competed and are going to state are listed below.
100- Fundamental Accounting: The following students placed Top 10
Madison Depaoli
Clay Cooper
Kasey Smith
Richard Brayton
Haley Adams
110- Advanced Accounting: The following students placed Top 10
Alex Orr
Ee Yeoh Wong
Competing at State Competition: Ee Yeoh Wong
145- Banking and Finance: The following students placed Top 10
Brendan Guerin
160- Economic Research Project Team: The following students placed Top 10
Competing at State Competition: Alex Orr & Brendan Guerin & Logan Gray
300- Computer Network Technology: The following students placed Top 10
Zach Moffett
Kevin Minds
Trevor Bartlett
Competing at State Competition: Trevor Bartlett & Bailey Sturgis
305- PC Servicing and Troubleshooting: The following students placed Top 10
Anthony Krumme
Maxx Cole
Austin Howard- Clark
Gage Woods
Alec Saavedra
Nicholas Crawford
Competing at State Competition: Alec Saavedra & Gage Woods
310- Network Administration Using Microsoft: The following students placed Top 10
Competing at State Competition: David Lehn
320- Computer Security: The following students placed Top 10
Jared Olberding
Zach Beckmeyer
Domas Karvelis
Josh Oberlin
Competing at State Competition: Josh Oberlin
335- C++ Programming: The following students placed Top 10
Chris Stroplos
345- SQL Database Fundamentals: The following students placed Top 10
Competing at State Competition: Jack Massey
400- Fundamental Desktop Publishing:The following students placed Top 10
Morgan FitzGerald
Jillian Krynock
Anthony Mussari
Ryan Dilts
Katie Busemeyer
Jenna Cooper
Competing at State Competition: Jenna Cooper & Katie Busemeyer
405- Fundamentals of Web Design:The following students placed Top 10
Trent Meyer
Thomas Yoder
Competing at State Competition: Thomas Yoder
410- Graphic Design Promotion: The following students placed Top 10
Jillian Krynock
Corinne Brown
Loren Cook
Kelly McHugh
Anthony Mussari
Competing at State Competition: Anthony Mussari
415- Digital Publishing with InDesign: The following students placed Top 10
Ben Kessler
Emily Hoyle
Abbey Ketterer
Competing at State Competition: Ben Kessler
420- Digital Media Production: The following students placed Top 10
Brandon Coffman
Michael Sokol
Bailey Burnette
Ryan Dilts
Competing at State Competition: Ryan Dilts
425- Computer Modeling: The following students placed Top 10
Noah Herd
Ella Jolicoeur
Emily McCarthy
Lauren Goslee
Competing at State Competition: Lauren Goslee
430- Video Production Team: The following students placed Top 10
Katie Busemeyer & Josh Song
Morgan FitzGerald & Abbey Ketterer & Mackenzie Mettey & Emily Hoyle
Competing at State Competition: Morgan FitzGerald & Abbey Ketterer
& Mackenzie Mettey & Emily Hoyle
440- Computer Animation Team: The following students placed Top 10
Grace Ficke & Katrina Kessler & Brendan Ruddy
445- Broadcast News Production Team: The following students placed Top 10
Mikayla Werner & Keenan Williams
500- Global Marketing Team: The following students placed Top 10
Competing at State Competition: Vladislav Gilaziev, Mark Rimkevicius,
Thomas Wilson,William Forgham
505- Entrepreneurship: The following students placed Top 10
Competing at State Competition: Maddie DePaoli
510- Small Business Management Team: The following students placed Top 10
Clay Cooper, Ricky Brayton, Ee Yeoh Wong & Brandon Woolley
Kaity Frederick & Lindsay Leighton
535- Human Resource Management: The following students placed Top 10
Avery Stanton
550- Parliamentary Procedure Team: The following students placed Top 10
Brooke Conner
Katie Hacker
Joelle Curtis
Briana Schutt
555- Presentation Management (Individual): The following students placed Top 10
Competing at State Competition: Jack Johnson
By Maddie DePaoli
