Schmid Qualifies for National FBLA Leadership Conference

Twenty-six of Johnson County Central's FBLA members attended the State Leadership Conference in Kearney, April 16-18. There were over 2300 competitors present.
Johnson County Central's winners in the competitions were:
Wesley Schmid, fifth place (out of 224) in Agribusiness and 4th place (out of 110 competitors) in Insurance & Risk Management.  Wes was also awarded Honorable Mention for Securities & Investments (top 4%).  He is a National Qualifier for both Agribusiness and Insurance & Risk Management events.  He can only compete in one individual event at the National Level and has chosen to attend the National Leadership Conference (San Antonio, TX at the end of June) and compete in Agribusiness.
JCC's team of Jack Waring, Regan Thies, and AJ Rautenbach earned Honorable Mention (top 4%) in Business Plan.
The JCC FBLA chapter was recognized for completing the following projects: Feed Nebraska and Go Green, and also for having a chapter advisor who is an NSBEA & NBEA member.
Advisor Angie Huskey was recognized for 20 years as an FBLA Advisor.
According to Huskey, FBLA is a wonderful leadership organization that prepares students to be community-minded business leaders. “I am inspired by our students who are involved in a vast number of activities, yet continue to set high goals for themselves, strive to improve their leadership abilities, practice efficient money management, and improve their understanding of our American business enterprise,” said Huskey. “I feel honored to have taught and worked with so many motivated students. Many past students are now working for our community (or serving other areas of our state and nation) as teachers, administrators, medical professionals, human resource specialists, banking/financial/lending specialists, marketing or operations managers, and in a variety of trade careers.
“Over the past 20 years, our business world and Nebraska FBLA have become much more driven by technology. Our state contests have shifted from paper/pencil testing to an online testing format. The type of communication tools have changed as well. Today’s business professionals must be prepared to write and respond to long emails along with a variety of social media tools, within a very short period of time. In addition, Skype/FaceTime/Zoom/WhatsApp/Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams type communication offers high-definition video calls and collaboration.”
According to Huskey, the CTE (Career and Technical Education) teachers are constantly changing and improving techniques to ensure that students gain the knowledge and experience to step into the next level of education and/or internship positions that will prepare them for careers in an ever-changing business world.