BY ADRIAN CHAVEZ
Business Professionals of America held its regional leadership conference at Medina Valley High School in Castroville, Texas on Jan. 25. Competing in various workplace skill assessment program events, students from area high schools participated in events such as fundamental accounting, payroll accounting, fundamentals of web design, computer modeling, presentation management and lots more.
Of these, six Wagner students qualified for advancement to the state Leadership conference. Qualifiers included Daniel Rios, Isaac Quinn, Kenneth Shango and Edward Voyce, who as a team placed second for Network Design; Ariel Griffie, who placed second for Prepared Speech, and Brycen Adams-Brady, who placed first in Computer Network Technology.
Six students also qualified as state alternates. In PC Servicing and Troubleshooting, Carlo Guyo qualified as first state alternate, as did Hector Jaimes in Computer Security and James Hunt in Graphic Design Promotion. Video Production team members Manuel Perusquia, Brajahn Vialdores, and Ted Zamora earned fourth state alternate.
"We worked really hard at it," Hunt said. "I'm really excited to compete at state."
BPA advisor and Wagner teacher Rodney Neal also commended the efforts of the rest of his individual competitors, including Sabrina Zavala (Fundamental Word Processing), Juan Gutierrez (Presentation Management Team), Amy Garcia (PC Servicing and Troubleshooting), Ricardo Diaz (Computer Security), Christian Smalley (Java Programming), and Fabiola Rodriguez (Banking and Finance).
"Overall, it was a great showing for Wagner BPA," Neal said.
Business Professionals of America held its regional leadership conference at Medina Valley High School in Castroville, Texas on Jan. 25. Competing in various workplace skill assessment program events, students from area high schools participated in events such as fundamental accounting, payroll accounting, fundamentals of web design, computer modeling, presentation management and lots more.
Of these, six Wagner students qualified for advancement to the state Leadership conference. Qualifiers included Daniel Rios, Isaac Quinn, Kenneth Shango and Edward Voyce, who as a team placed second for Network Design; Ariel Griffie, who placed second for Prepared Speech, and Brycen Adams-Brady, who placed first in Computer Network Technology.
Six students also qualified as state alternates. In PC Servicing and Troubleshooting, Carlo Guyo qualified as first state alternate, as did Hector Jaimes in Computer Security and James Hunt in Graphic Design Promotion. Video Production team members Manuel Perusquia, Brajahn Vialdores, and Ted Zamora earned fourth state alternate.
"We worked really hard at it," Hunt said. "I'm really excited to compete at state."
BPA advisor and Wagner teacher Rodney Neal also commended the efforts of the rest of his individual competitors, including Sabrina Zavala (Fundamental Word Processing), Juan Gutierrez (Presentation Management Team), Amy Garcia (PC Servicing and Troubleshooting), Ricardo Diaz (Computer Security), Christian Smalley (Java Programming), and Fabiola Rodriguez (Banking and Finance).
"Overall, it was a great showing for Wagner BPA," Neal said.