Hot news FBLA Award Winners Riggs

The T.F. Riggs FBLA chapter is proud to say they are again the largest chapter in the state of South Dakota with 64 members. Our chapter was awarded a plaque Monday evening at the Spring Leadership Conference to commemorate this honor.

Congratulations also go out to the following FBLA members for receiving these awards:

Matt Farris—1^st in Banking and Financial Systems

Carl Morris—3^rd in Banking & Financial Systems

Rika Beck—1^st in Business Math, and 4^th in Introduction to Business

Stephen Bollinger—2^nd in Business Math

John Rounds—1^st in Business Procedures, 2^nd in Future Business Leaders, and 2^nd in Job Inteview

Alex Lindholm—1^st in CyberSecurity, 2^nd in Database Design, 1^st in Networking Concepts, 1^st in Technology Concepts, and 1^st in Visual Basic Programming

Teddy Jackson—3^rd in CyberSecurity and 3^rd in Networking Concepts

Drew Christensen—4^th in Economics

Crystal Ortbahn—1^st in Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure

Bryce Siedschlaw—4^th in Networking Concepts and 2^nd in Visual Basic Programming

Casey Ortbahn—1^st in Parliamentary Procedure

Waylon Waite—4^th in Technology Concepts

Also placing in the following team events were

Zack Larson, Jessica Jones and Nikki Novak placing 2nd in Business Ethics, Jessica Smith and Kimberly Neyhart—5^th in Community Service Project, and Carl Morris, Drew Christensen, and Matt Farris—2^nd in Entrepreneurship, Casey Ortbahn, Jessica Jones, and Cassie Palmer—4th in Multimedia Project, Bryce Siedschlaw, Alex Lindholm, and Teddy Jackson—2^nd in Website Development, and Waylon Waite, Amy Yost, and Lindsey Fairbairn—4^th in Website Development.

Named Outstanding Members for this year were Zack Larson, Nikki Novak and Casey Ortbahn.

Casey Ortbahn has been installed as the state parliamentarian on the SD State Board of FBLA for the coming year.

Qualifying to go to national competition in Chicago, IL this summer are Matt Farris, Carl Morris, Nikki Novak, Zack Larson, Jessica Jones, Rika Beck, Stephen Bollinger, John Rounds, Alex Lindholm, Teddy Jackson, Drew Christensen, Crystal Ortbahn, Bryce Siedschlaw and Casey Ortbahn. Waylon Waite may possibly attend as an alternate.

Because of the outstanding performance of your Riggs FBLA chapter at conference this year, they bring home the 3^rd place plaque in overall chapter performance.

Lastly LeAnn Novak was named the outstanding professional member of the year for South Dakota FBLA. Congratulations again on your outstanding performance.