BUSINESS LEADERS
These kids are minding their own business(es)
Student chapter
engaged in leadership
By Katherine Lacaze
For Seaside Signal
The success of Seaside
High School’s fledgling
Future Business Leaders
of America chapter reveals
how team members have
taken to heart the idea of
jumping in feet first.
The chapter, which is
led by business teacher
Mike Verhulst, is preparing
to send 21 students to the
FBLA State Business Lead-
ership Conference in Port-
land from April 6 to 8, and
a few students have even
secured their spot at the Na-
tional Leadership Confer-
ence.
“I’m really blown away
KATHERINE LACAZE/FOR SEASIDE SIGNAL
During the FBLA prep night
March 22, Seaside High
School junior Isaiah Collins
gives a presentation on
the 3-D animated video he
created with his teammates,
senior Brent Walsh and junior
Rafael Sibony.
KATHERINE LACAZE/FOR SEASIDE SIGNAL
Seaside High School junior Bryre Babbitt (left) and senior Kara
Ipson talk on their Future Business Leaders of America chapter’s
involvment in the school’s Don’t Catch This Wave campaign.
by the connection I’ve been
able to make with the kids
and how engaged they are,”
said Verhulst, who is in his
first year at Seaside. “These
kids have made my life re-
ally easy in terms of their
support.”
He structured Seaside’s
FBLA chapter as a class/club
hybrid. During the second
term, students participated in
the business leadership class,
where they developed a ba-
sic understanding of busi-
ness, picked their projects
and for which competitive
events, and developed skills
necessary to complete those
projects. Once the class end-
ed, students had to find time
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meet their judges face-to-
face and give a presentation
at the competition in April.
That was the competitive
aspect students addressed
during an FBLA Prep Night,
held March 22 at the school.
“At this point we all have
our projects and presen-
tations ready,” said senior
Zeynep Payzanoğlu, who is
competing in 3-D animation
with senior Kara Ipson. “To-
day is a practice competition
for us.”
The teams presented
their projects, which includ-
ed 3-D animated videos,
business plans and e-busi-
ness propositions, in front of
volunteer judges and other
community members. In the
six years Verhulst has been
an FBLA adviser, he’s found
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on their own to meet with
project partners and finish
their work.
Because of the size of
Oregon FBLA, schools hold
on-site regional competitions
where members take an on-
line test. In Seaside, the re-
gional contest took place in
February, and all the students
qualified to compete at the
state level.
FBLA competitions fea-
ture a myriad of events, some
of which include a presenta-
tion and are judged in-per-
son. Students may partici-
pate in one judged event and
one written event — such
as business calculations, ac-
counting, personal finance or
business communications.
As they get ready for
state, many Seaside students
already have submitted piec-
es from their project, but will
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