KCCC Students Qualify for Business Professionals of America State Competition

Mount Vernon, OH – Knox County Career Center students competed in the Business
Professionals of America (BPA) Region IV competition on Thursday, January 23rd.
KCCC students in the Computer Network Technology (CNT), CollegeU-Business
(CLGU), Digital Media and Software Development (DMSD), and Pre-Professional Mentorship
(PPM) programs competed against students from Delaware Hayes High School, Delaware Area
Career Center, Highland High School, and Tri-Rivers Career Center.
BPA is a career technical student organization that allows students to compete in various
competitions in the areas of Finance, Business Administration, Management Information
Systems, Digital Communications and Design, Management, Marketing and Communications,
and Health Administration.
On Friday, January 31st, BPA State Qualifiers in Region 4 were announced at the
Region 4 Awards Ceremony held at the Willis Education Center in Delaware. KCCC had 47
students qualify for state in 26 events. The BPA State competition will be held on March 10th &
11th in Columbus.
Keyara Murphy, BPA Region IV Director, said, “The students did a great job competing in
the BPA Region IV competition. All students prepared in different ways; reviewed resources for

tests, and created projects using specific software. All contests were scored by a professional
from the content area. Students apply and improve life skills through these competitions.”
The following students qualified for BPA State:
(listed by name, lab, and event)

-Toby Burak (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Fundamental Accounting

-Jeffery Cook (CollegeU-Business) 2nd Place in Fundamental Accounting

-Luke Moore (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Banking and Finance

-Carson Hammond (CollegeU-Business) 3rd Place in Banking and Finance

-Isaiah Campbell, Austin Hammond, Sami Lacksonen, Carter Thompson (CollegeU-Business)
1st Place in Financial Analyst Team

-Laura Page (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Economic Research Individual

-Samuel Lyons (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Fundamental Word Processing

-Brooklyn Morand (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications

-Elizabeth Swartzentruber (CollegeU-Business) 2nd Place in Fundamental Spreadsheet
Applications

-Nicholas McFerren (CollegeU-Business) 3rd Place in Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications

-Jacob Spaulding (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Business Law & Ethics

-Elliott Anderson (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place in Computer Network Technology

-Ryan Snyder (Computer Network Technology) 2nd Place in Computer Network Technology

-Brody Casebolt (Computer Network Technology) 3rd Place in Computer Network Technology

-Brodrick Whittaker (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place in Device Configuration &
Troubleshooting

-Noah Abney (Computer Network Technology) 2nd Place in Device Configuration &
Troubleshooting

-Thomas Ary (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place in Server Admin Using Microsoft

-Robert Lonsinger (Computer Network Technology) 2nd Place in Server Admin Using Microsoft

-Ethan Kapper (Computer Network Technology) 3rd Place in Server Admin Using Microsoft

-Tyler Ing (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place in Network Administration Using Cisco

-Paul Dickerson (Computer Network Technology) 2nd Place in Network Administration Using
Cisco

-Tanner Burgess (Computer Network Technology) 3rd Place in Network Administration Using
Cisco

-Hunter Brooks (Computer Network Technology) 2nd Place in Computer Security

-Elliott Anderson, Hunter Brooks, Tyler Ing, and Ryan Snyder (Computer Network Technology)
1st Place in Network Design Team

-Aiden Colgan (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place in Linux Operating System
Fundamentals

-Hannah Blubaugh (Digital Media & Software Development) 1st Place in Fundamentals of
Desktop Publishing

-Olivia Stone (Digital Media & Software Development) 2nd Place in Fundamentals of Desktop
Publishing

-Jamison Purdy (Digital Media & Software Development) 2nd Place in Digital Media Production

-Hannah Blubaugh, Leon Cornette, Joslynn Rine, and Olivia Stone (Digital Media & Software
Development) 1st Place in Visual Design Team

-Abigail Krabill & Caroline Reiss (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Global Marketing Team

-Tessa Wahl (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Entrepreneurship

-Tressel Bockover (CollegeU-Business) 2nd Place in Entrepreneurship

-Jacob Spaulding & Luke Overholt (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Small Business
Management Team

-Kaden Talbott (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place in Interview Skills

-Paul Dickerson (Computer Network Technology) 1st Place Advanced Interview Skills

-Tanner Nutter (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Ethics and Professionalism

-Cally Carpenter (CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Prepared Speech

-Katherine Bellman, Peyton Blakesley, Zander Patrick, Nathan Katz, and Wyatt Fisher
(CollegeU-Business) 1st Place in Parliamentary Procedure Team

-Lillian Allen (Pre-Professional Mentorship) 2nd Place in Health Administration Procedures