Two dozen Great Oaks students will go to Columbus in March for state Business Professionals of America (BPA) competition after excelling at the regional contest.  Nine students from the Live Oaks campus of Great Oaks and fifteen students from Great Oaks satellite programs at Amelia, Anderson, and Batavia High Schools qualified for the state BPA competition.

State-qualifying students include:

From the Live Oaks Interactive Media program:  Keri Couch, Sean Farnum, Hannah Henkel, Zach Kimmerly, Matthew Miracle, Amanda Montgomery, and Megan Slusher.

From the Live Oaks Business Management and Administrative Services program:  Kris Lane and Brian Tenhundfeld.

From Amelia High School:  Kevin Brashear, Spencer Cox, Aaron Fluehr, Louie Furkas, Kara Henning, Andrew Johnson, Michael Lykins, Wes Lukemire, Shannon Maxwell, Neil Patel, Damian Santorelli, and Billy Tumler.

From Anderson High School:  Kurtis Polacek and Travis Springer.

From Batavia High School:  Melissa Carrigan.

In BPA competition, students are given real-life business situations and must, individually or as a team, develop solutions and demonstrate their skills.  Categories cover a wide range of business applications including payroll accounting, graphic design, web design, interview skills, global marketing, human resources, economic research, and other areas.

Other students from Live Oaks, Amelia, Anderson, and Batavia also fared well in the regional BPA competition.  A complete list of top finishers:

From Live Oaks—Interactive Media Program:

Graphic Design Promotion—Zach Kimmerly (1^st)

Video Production (Team)—Keri Couch and Amanda Montgomery (1^st)

Web Site Design (Team)—Sean Farnum, Hannah Henkel, Matthew Miracle, and Megan Slusher (1^st)

Fundamentals of XHTML—Sean Farnum (1^st), Zach Kimmerly (2^nd)

From Live Oaks—Business Management and Administrative Services program:

Presentation Management—Brian Tenhundfeld (1^st)

Payroll Accounting—Kris Lane (1^st)

Human Resource Management—Zack Simmons (2^nd)

Small Business Management (Team) –Mike Adams and Crystal Odenbeck (3^rd)

Interview Skills—Kristin Pfau (4^th)

From Amelia High School:

Fundamental Accounting—Spencer Cox (1^st), Cory Bryant (3^rd)

Payroll Accounting—Claire Bartels (3^rd), Nick Rosser (4^th)

Spreadsheet Applications & Analysis—Kaitlin Jansen (4^th), Emily Bloss (6^th)

Banking & Finance—Michael Lykins (1^st), Aaron Fluehr (2^nd), Jon Neff (3^rd)

Economic Research (Team)--Neil Patel, Michael Lykins, Billy Tumler, and Kevin Brashear (1^st)

Financial Math & Analysis--Michael Lykins (1^st), Jon Neff (2^nd), Emily Bloss (3^rd), Kortney Wykoff (4^th), Shannon Maxwell (5^th), Spencer Cox (6^th)

Keyboarding Production—Andrew Beasley (3^rd)

Desktop Publishing—Damian Santorelli (2^nd)

Information Technology Concepts—Billy Tumler (3^rd), Jake Adams (5^th)

Global Marketing (Team)--Kara Henning, Wes Lukemire, Shannon Maxwell, Aaron Fluehr (1^st), Jon Neff, Andrew Beasley, Jacob Coburn (2^nd)

Entrepreneurship—Andrew Johnson (1^st), Kaitlin Jansen (2^nd), Ciera Coy (3^rd), Megan Freeman (4^th), Randi Vaughn (5^th)

Small Business Management (Team)--Claire Bartels and Nick Rosser (2^nd)

Interview Skills—Emily Bloss (2^nd), Kortney Wykoff (4^th), Rian Southerland (5^th)

Extemporaneous Speech—Alexis Weidner (2^nd)

Human Resource Management—Louie Furkas (1^st), Ashley Yazell (3^rd)

Presentation Management  (Individual)—Abigail Smith (2^nd), Brittany Klaas (4^th), Jake Adams (6^th)

Presentation Management (Team)—Mandy Slusher and Marissa Schott (1^st)

Management/Marketing/Human Resources—Claire Bartels (2^nd), Vinny Terry (5^th), Ciera Coy (6^th)

From Anderson High School:

Small Business Management (Team)—Kurtis Polacek and Travis Springer (1^st)

From Batavia High School:

Legal Procedures—Melissa Carrigan (2^nd), Amber Mahlman (3^rd), Katherine Hembree (4^th), Mike Murphy (6^th)