Tumwater Chapter FBLA

Meeting Minutes

October 1, 2015

  1. Call to Order
  2. Mr. Carl Myers, Chapter President called to order a regular FBLA meeting at 9:40 a.m. on October 1, 2015 in Tumwater, WA.
  3. Snacks Provided
  4. Attendance

Rachel Heinselman
Kira Heinselman
Tyler Volkman
Emma Snodgrass
Carl Myers
Jacob Kendal
Bryson Taylor
Rayne Olson
Alisha Schuetz
Jeremiah Erickson
Samantha Macrtens

  1. Old Business
  2. Rachel collected any membership and garment orders that students returned.
  3. New Business
  4. Carl: The new member packet contains a membership form, garment order, minutes from first meeting, and a brochure. We are about competitions and Ms. Knight will show you the state Website today. Next meeting we are trying to get our Regional Vice President here to speak to our members.
  5. Knight: Use the THS Website, FBLA page to get to know what we’re about. The state Website is The links on the top of the page are important but today we are going to focus on competitions. Looked at national Website and there is a lot of information on that Website.
  6. Jensen: FBLA has 4 scholarships available. Going to school is expensive, but there are lots of ways to fund it. All scholarships help to that effect. These are only the state level scholarships, there are more at local level and national levels.
  7. Knight: Scholarships are mostly for juniors and seniors and would be very good to look at. Our competition conference is coming up quickly. Look at the state guidelines, not the national guidelines. The Web site lists types of events. You can click on the individual events to see what it takes to compete in that event. There are tests, prejudged items followed by a presentation, team role play, prepared presentations, production tests, speaking events, interview type events, and recognition awards. New thing this year called MEG or Master Events Guidelines. It has ethics, dress code, tips with events, production, testing, etc. You can get practice tests for all events and practice role plays if it applies to the event. Members’ homework is to start looking at events.
  8. Meeting adjourned at 9:59.

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