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Monday is Fight to the Finish Day [FBLA-PBL Week]

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MONDAY

Kick off FBLA-PBL Week with the National President’s Forum! All three division national presidents (FBLA PBL, and Professional Division) will host a live Google Hangout on Monday, February 11, 8:00 pm EST.

Another great way to start the week is with Business Achievement Awards (BAA). BAA is an aggressive, self-directed, results-based business and leadership program designed to compliment academics, while accelerating a student’s leadership skills. Promoting and participating in the Business Achievement Awards is an excellent way to begin FBLA-PBL Week and begin your Fight to the Finish.

The BAA is a great way for you to:

  • hone your business and leadership skills, from basic (Future level) to expert (America level)
  • showcase your talents and skills through integrated academic work and project-based activities
  • receive recognition at the local, state and national level
 

You can also compete in the  ”Fight to the Finish” contest recognizes the top 10 states with the most Business Achievement Awards completed. Using a weighted scale of awards completed (1 for Future and 4 for America level), the top 10 states will receive recognition at the National Leadership Conference Regional meetings. Points are based on state-level membership, so every state earns points based on awards completed, regardless of state membership size.

Do you have questions about the Business Achievement Awards? Speak to your adviser and start earning points for your state today, and don’t forget check out this BAA Tutorial.

Introducing FBLA February Frenzy

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There is a membership frenzy building across over 5,600 FBLA chapters… a February Frenzy, that is.  This NEW national program, sponsored by your FBLA National Officer team, is designed to help chapters recruit new members and engage existing members in new and creative ways.

What Do I Need to Do?

Ask your adviser to sign up your chapter today so that you can ignite chapter membership numbers with activities that include:

  • having members create displays and posters promoting FBLA
  • recruiting five NEW freshman
  • celebrating FBLA-PBL Week
  • sponsoring a fun social event for paid chapter members
  • setting up a meet-and-greet recruitment booth in a high traffic area
  • watching the second semester recruitment webinar and adapting one of the ideas for your local chapter
  • planning and sponsoring a chapter community service project
  • and many more activities

How Will February Frenzy Help My Chapter Recruit More Members?

February Frenzy will help you focus your chapter members – and your entire state – on recruitment by teaching your members how to market FBLA using the tools provided by the National Center as well as their own creativity.  You’ll see an influx of new members, and your existing members will be more engaged.

What Recognition Will My Chapter Receive?

When your chapter successfully completes the February Frenzy program and has members attend the 2013 National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California, all conference delegates will receive special ribbons that designate their chapter as a February Frenzy award recipient.  Plus, your chapter’s designated chapter project manager will receive a special recruitment pin.

 Your chapter can also help your state earn national honors by finishing in the top 10 on the February Frenzy Leaderboard. The Leaderboard will be promoted on the National Web site and will highlight the top 10 February Frenzy chapters.  As an added state incentive, the top 10 states creating and implementing a state marketing plan that encourage chapters to participate in this program will receive recognition at the National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California.

How Do I Get Started?

It’s easy, just visit our Web site and sign up today.

Remember, as you use February Frenzy to ignite your recruitment for 2012-2013, remind prospective members of the countless opportunities FBLA-PBL has to offer:

  • challenging competitive events
  • scholarships, awards and other recognition opportunities
  • exciting conferences at destinations all over the country
  • and networking opportunities with 250,000 other young leaders

Plus, FBLA-PBL members participate in community service, fundraising, social events, and other career-boosting leadership activities.

May Recruitment Success Be Ever In Your Future!

Are you a student with an innovative idea on how to fix our education system in America?

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The Department of Education is inviting students to develop an innovative solution to an education problem and design a blueprint for a new company or organization – a startup – to deliver that solution.

Students from across the country have until May 1st to submit a business plan and a video pitch for a for-profit or non-profit startup that includes an innovative strategy, product or service designed to address one of these four topics:

  1. Middle Grades Matter
    Helping middle school students transition to high school and stay on track to graduate.
  2. Skills, Skills, Skills
    Providing students in rural, urban, and/or high-poverty communities with opportunities for internships or other work-based learning experiences that help them develop skills for success in postsecondary education, 21st century careers, and civic life.
  3. Education Pays
    Making it easier for students and families to make informed decisions about postsecondary education based on affordability and value, to choose colleges best suited to their needs, priced affordably, and consistent with their education and career goals.
  4. Finish Faster
    Increasing the likelihood that postsecondary students complete their degrees, and decreasing the time it takes them to finish, such as by improving and speeding up remedial education.

Submissions will be judged by a panel of prominent educators and entrepreneurs. Awards will be made in four categories:

  • 6th – 8th grade students
  • 9th – 12th grade students
  • Undergraduate students
  • Out of school youth

Winning students will be celebrated by senior White House and Department of Education officials, and may qualify for additional recognition opportunities.  

For more information on this challenge click here. If you have questions regarding the National Education Startup Challenge, email:  EDStartupChallenge@ed.gov

New: Business Achievement Awards “Fight to the Finish” Contest

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Have you completed the four levels of the Business Achievement Awards (BAA)? The BAA is a great way for you to:

  • hone your business and leadership skills, from basic (Future level) to expert (America level)
  • showcase your talents and skills through integrated academic work and project-based activities
  • receive recognition at the local, state and national level
BAA Score Board

How does your state rank? Complete the Business Achievement Awards to earn points

Now there is one more reason to complete the Business Achievement Awards. The new “Fight to the Finish” contest recognizes the top 10 states with the most Business Achievement Awards completed. Using a weighted scale of awards completed (1 for Future and 4 for America level), the top 10 states will receive recognition at the National Leadership Conference Regional meetings. Points are based on state-level membership, so every state earns points based on awards completed, regardless of state membership size.

Do you have questions about the Business Achievement Awards? Speak to your adviser and start earning points for your state today, and don’t forget check out this BAA Tutorial.

The “Fight to the Finish” contest was an idea submitted at the FBLA-PBL Innovation Center. Do you have an idea that will improve membership in FBLA-PBL? Submit and vote on ideas today!

Vote for FBLA-PBL in Microsoft Store program

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Starting April 25 to July 3, the Microsoft Store is hosting their Giving Kids Tools for Tomorrow program. They have selected three organizations that are dedicated to providing a brighter future for children: FBLA-PBL, Scholarship America, and Boys Hope Girls Hope. Each can receive up to $100,000 in software. Each time a vote is cast for FBLA-PBL we will receive $5 worth of Microsoft software. Voting is easy! Just visit the program’s Facebook page at microsoftstore.com/givingkidstools or stop by a Microsoft Store near you. It is not necessary to make a purchase to vote. Just be sure to vote between April 25 and July 3 to support FBLA-PBL. Each person may only cast one vote. Help us show the power of FBLA-PBL!

Want President Obama at your graduation?

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The deadline for applications for the Race to the Top (RTT) Commencement Challenge has been extended to Friday, March 11, 2011!

The White House is asking public high school students from across the country to tell the President about the ways their school is preparing them to win the future through college and a career. The winning high school will have a graduation they’ll never forget – with a commencement address from President Obama.

Applying for the 2011 Commencement Challenge is easy.  Your school just needs to submit three short essays and some data that should be readily available. The White House has extended the application deadline in order to give schools more time to apply to this year’s Commencement Challenge. Applications are now due by Friday, March 11, so submit yours today: www.WhiteHouse.gov/commencement

National Partner, McPherson College, Announces Winners of Global Enterprise Challenge

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The Global Enterprise Challenge winning team (l to r): mentor Chris Paulsen, automotive restoration instructor; Steve Butcher, sophomore, Atlantic, Iowa; Nate Coppernoll, freshman, Stillman Valley, Ill.; Tori Carder, sophomore, Eudora, Kan.; Ryan Stauffer senior, Milford, Neb.; Melisa Grandison (not pictured), senior, Quinter, Kan.; and Michael Schneider, McPherson College President.

In just 10 days, six teams of five students from McPherson College were challenged to come up with a plan for a self-sustaining social venture in Haiti. 

The winning idea of “Beyond Isles” is to create a community market that would incorporate a physical venue for agricultural and clothing products on the ground in Haiti, a global market through Internet channels, and an educational component for Haitians to continue to develop their skills.

The members of the winning team will each receive a $1,000 scholarship, the opportunity to refine their idea, and travel to Haiti’s Tortuga Island to make it into a reality.

The Global Enterprise Challenge was part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Founded in 2008 by the Kauffman Foundation and Enterprise UK, this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week boasts more than 57,000 events with more than 10 million worldwide participants. Global Entrepreneurship Week USA selected McPherson College’s Global Enterprise Challenge as one of 10 featured events.

Read more about the challenge and follow the team as they prepare to go to Haiti at blogs.mcpherson.edu/entrepreneurship

Help AICPA Decide Who Created the Perfect Acronym

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At www.StartHereGoPlaces.com, AICPA’s Web site providing everything high school students need to know about careers in accounting, they’ve just counted the last entry in the Clearly Pretty Awesome Competition. Students were challenged to come up with the crummiest, funniest “C-P-A” jobs imaginable (think “Curb Paint Applicator” or “Cheese Pastry Auctioneer”), and man, did they deliver.

AICPA is asking you to go to www.StartHereGoPlaces.com to cast your vote for the entry that is the best at sounding the worst! Make your selection carefully—the winners can get laptops, iPod Touches, and up to $3,000 in funds for their schools. They’re even going to use the top contender in a national ad campaign.

Hurry, though—public voting ends December 10!