The BPA District Leadership Conference was held at the Career Center at Warsaw High School on January 21, 2012.  Twenty-five out of twenty-nine PHS students qualified for the State Competition in March.  PHS students also accumulated over twenty-five medals in open events.

In Payroll Accounting, Morgan Hill placed 1st, Patrick Felke placed 3rd, Lane Singleton placed 4th and all three students qualified for State.  In Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications, Nick Bayley placed 1st, Adam Chambers placed 2nd, Trent Briles placed 4th, Aiden Osman placed 5th and all four students qualified for State.  Tucker Pletcher, Nat Hiatt, and Max Holloway also placed in Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications.   

Micah Harner placed 3rd in Advanced Spreadsheet Applications and qualified for State.  In Banking and Finance, Tom Serf placed 6th.  In Keyboarding Production, Kylie Ludwig placed 1st, Faith Hilty placed 2nd, Pauline Dagaas placed 3rd, Tucker Pletcher placed 5th and all four students qualified for State.  Megan Sutton also placed in Keyboarding Production. 

In Fundamental Word Processing Skills, Kelly Bryant placed 1st, Emily Blake placed 3rd, Adam Chambers placed 5th and all three students qualified for State.  In Desktop Publishing, Kylie Ludwig placed 1st, Megan Sutton placed 2nd, Jessica Cleveland placed 4th, Luke Bumpus placed 5th and all four students qualified for State.  Morgan Hite, Emily Denney, Kendall Fosler, Tom Serf and Nate Kolter also placed in Desktop Publishing.

Kelly Bryant placed 1st in Basic Office Systems and Procedures and qualified for State.  Matt Scutchfield placed 1st in Database Applications and qualified for State.  Morgan Hite placed 4th in Graphic Design Promotion and qualified for State.  Patrick Felke placed 1st in Extemporaneous Speech and qualified for State.

In Administrative Support Team, the team of Matt Scutchfield, Jessica Cleveland, Lane Singleton, and Morgan Hill, placed 1st and qualified for State.  In Small Business Management Team, the team of Luke Bumpus, Emily Denney, and Makayla DePoy placed 1st and qualified for State.

In Fundamentals of Web Design, Spencer Uyhhelgi placed 3rd and Kendall Fosler placed 4th.  Both students qualified for State.  In PC Servicing and Troubleshooting, Allen Collins placed 1st and Logan May placed 2nd.   Both students qualified for State.  In Computer Security, Logan May placed 1st and Allen Collins placed 2nd.  Both students qualified for State.

Congratulations to all who participated!