Business Professionals of America 2021

 Well like everything this past year, the Region 16 competition for the Business Professionals of America (BPA) was held on line rather than face to face. Vantage was represented by students in Mr. Larry Regedanz's Network System program and Mrs. Jill DeWert's Interactive Media program. There were approximately 58 students who competed from both labs, both juniors and seniors. Below is the picture of the students who placed in the top three in each of the categories. 

Of the student's who competed in the regional, we have several who qualified for the State competition in their category. The following student's who are moving on are:

Zackery Okuly (1st) - Payroll Accounting
Brookelynn Lee (1st) - Fundamental Word Processing
Riley Boroff (1st), Christapher Piske (2nd), James Hagaman (3rd) - Computer Network Technology
Jayden Renner (3rd) - PC Servicing & Troubleshooting
Anthony Butler (1st), Marcus Cox (2nd), Devin Nickols (3rd) - Server Admin using Microsoft
Christapher Piske (1st), Anthony Butler (2nd), Devin Nickols (3rd) - Network Admin using Cisco
Kay'l Sibold (1st), Wyatt Noffsinger (2nd), Orion Elick (3rd) - Computer Security
Quinn Ehinger (1st) - C# Programming
Andrew Hunter (1st) - SQL Database Fundamentals
Christapher Piske (1st), Riley Boroff (2nd), Allison Dingus (3rd) - Linux Operating Fundamentals
Chester Miller (1st), Jayden Renner (2nd), Makenzie Stephenson (3rd) - Python Programming
Asa Humes (2nd) - Fundamental Desktop Publishing
Tucker Franklin (2nd), Kaden Vielma (3rd) - Advanced Desktop Publishing
Marcus Cox, Joseph McClure, A.J. Verhoff, Noah Verhoff (1st Place) - Video Production Team
Makenzie Stephenson, Tanner Stinnett, Jude Marshall, Garret Martin(1st Place) - Computer Animation 
Jayden Buffin (1st) - Extemporaneous Speech

Congratulations to all of those students moving on to State competition. As you can see from the above list, several students made it in a couple different categories. I am so very proud of all the students who competed and are moving on. It certainly has been a different year because we had to go virtual but as usual, our students just roll with it and still are very successful. State competition will be the week of March 15th. Good luck to all of you and congratulations once again. Also a big thank you to Mr. Larry Regedanz, Mrs. Jill DeWert and Mrs. Paula VanTilburg for all the work they put into this event. What a bright light this year for Vantage Career Center.