Area Students Shine At BPA State Conference

Students from Froid, Culbertson, Bainville and Medicine Lake came away with high honors from the Montana BPA State Leadership Conference held in Billings on March 12-15.

Area members recognized with Statesman Torch Awards included Lakyn Rabbe of Bainville, Kaden Hansen of Bainville, Logan Ullmer of Bainville, Wyatt Iverson of Bainville, Abigail Strandlund of Froid, Brett Stentoft of Froid, Bode Miller of Froid and Javonne Nesbit of Froid.

Froid’s students performed well in integrated office applications as Cian Logan earned first, Makaylee Elvsaas placed fourth and Jennifer Fuzman took 12th.

Fundamental spreadsheets was another strong area for Froid as Brooklyn Nordwick placed second, Mara Salvevold took 18th and Roberto Orozco was 22nd.

In advanced desktop publishing, Jaeleigh Davidson took 11th, Kaylee Olson placed 12th and Mason Dethman was 13th. Solomon Grainger placed 11th in advanced spreadsheets. Also placing in advanced spreadsheets were Sadie Ullmer in 20th, B. Stentoft in 24th, Nate Stentoft in 25th, Miller in 26th and Jennifer Guzman in 27th.

Elise Logan earned third place in advanced spreadsheet applications. Guzman placed eighth in digital media production.

Froid students placing in advanced word processing were Elvsaas in 11th, E. Logan in 12th and Carolyne Christoffersen in 19th.

Christoffersen earned 25th place in banking and finance and 21st place in fundamental accounting. B. Stentoft took 29th and Miller was 30th in advanced office systems and procedures.

Placing in entrepreneurship for Froid were C. Logan in seventh, Nordwick in ninth and Grainger in 11th.

Addison Elvsaas took sixth in fundamental desktop publishing. Salvevold placed 11th and Jacob Martenson took 16th. A. Elvsaas placed 13th for fundamental word processing.

Earning honors for fundamental desktop publishing were Robertson in 22nd, Milo Stangeland in 23rd and Trent Williams in 29th.

Patton Bighorn placed 11th for intermediate word processing. Strandlund took 15th for payroll accounting. Taking 17th place for podcast production were M. Elvsaas and E. Logan. Earning fourth for website design were A. Elvsaas, Nordwick and Salvevold. Taking ninth were Stangeland, Robertson, Martenson and Robert Orozco.

Makena Hauge enjoyed an excellent conference for Culbertson’s students. The junior earned top honors in server administration using Microsoft. Hauge placed third for Linux operating system fundamentals and took eighth for user administration using Cisco.

Culbertson’s Tige Purvis placed fourth for Linux operating system fundamentals, 13th for presentation management introduction and 27th for legal office procedures.

Alicyn Ator placed fourth for SQL database fundamentals and fifth for Linux operating system fundamentals. She took 16th for medical diagnostic coding. Jazzmin Fugere took seventh for Linux operating system fundamentals and SQL database fundamentals.

Bainville’s Lakyn Rabbe earned fifth place for health insurance and medical billing and fifth place for medical diagnostic coding.

Maddox Hansen placed 15th for computer security. Madysen Lesch took 13th for health leadership.

Bainville’s team of Hallie Iverson, Lesch and Elsie Wilson placed fifth for economic research team.

Emma Poser and Chelsea Parker placed sixth for global marketing team. Wyatt Iverson earned eighth for extemporaneous speech.

Bainville’s students placing for graphic design promotion were Carter Winn in 10th, Kendra Romo in 13th, Hallie Iverson in 18th and Kaelyn Romo in 20th. Lesch placed 13th for health leadership. Hailey Stein took 23rd for medical diagnostic coding.

The team of Reese Harmon, Rudy Kummer, Alex Strickland and W. Iverson took ninth in video production team. Kummer and W. Iverson placed 16th in podcast production.

Medicine Lake’s Kennedy Ereth and Aleah Johnson earned firstplace honors for website design team.

Alexa Nelson placed ninth for health insurance and medical billing.

Ashdyn Anderson took 10th for business law ethics. Meg Ator placed 29th for intermediate word processing.

Students from 90 Montana schools demonstrated their knowledge in business and technological skills and abilities in 88 different competitive events from within the five core assessment areas of finance, business administration, management information systems, digital communication and design, management, marketing and communication and health administration.

BPA Montana students will now have the opportunity to travel to Dallas, Texas to compete in the 2022 BPA National Leadership Conference, which will be held May 4-8.