HoCo Hookups Featured In The Telegraph

HoCo Hookups, a project of several students at Houston County High School, including Region V Secretary Michael McGhie, was featured in Monday's Macon Telegraph:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/states/georgia/counties/houston_peach/16569200.htm

A Great Year for RLC

This year's Region V Leadership Conference was another great one! Over 400 FBLA members from across Central Georgia came to Middle Georgia Tech in Warner Robins yesterday for a day of competitive events, workshops, networking, and fun.

Your Region Officer Team extends congratulations to each and every one of our winners from RLC. Keep in mind that there are many more events that have not started yet, so there are still many opportunities to compete at the State Leadership Conference in March. A full winners list will be posted here in the next few days.

Special thanks go out to our advisers, chaperones, MGTC staff, and countless others who made this great conference possible. The members of FBLA appreciate your dedication to this great organization.

Keep up the great work Region V, and we'll see at the Classic Center in Athens this March!

RLC 2007: 12 Days Away!

The 2007 Georgia FBLA Region V Leadership Conference is just 12 days away! We hope you are gearing up for an exciting day of competitive events, workshops, campus tours, and opportunities to meet fellow FBLA members from across Central Georgia at Middle Georgia Technical College in Warner Robins.

Keep practicing and studying for your events, load the buses, and we'll see you in Warner Robins on January 19!

Perry High Another Active Chapter This Year

FBLA members at Perry High School are continuing a tradition of excellence and active participation in FBLA activities throughout the year.

Perry High FBLA members continued their active involvement this year by attending the 2006 Georgia FBLA Fall Leadership Conference at the Classic Center of Athens.

Highlights for the conference included: Leadership workshop tracks that focus on development of personal and leadership skills needed by FBLA members and opportunities to interact with other enthusiastic FBLA members and advisers throughout the state.

The conference kicked-off on Friday afternoon with the innovative Invention Convention and the Perry High team consisted of: Brittany Bryan (chapter reporter), Brittany Whitfield (chapter historian) and Kim Burgess (chapter treasurer). The conference also included an excitement-filled MONOPOLY® Tournament to benefit the March of Dimes and Perry High entered two teams to compete in the tournament. Perry High School FBLA was also recognized for placing 3rd in the chapter t-shirt design and each participant received their Leadership Achievement Recognition Certificates.
Perry High School FBLA advisers in attendance were Jean Provitt and Sherry Johnson.

During the month of December 2006, the PHS chapter of FBLA teamed up with the PHS chapters of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and SkillsUSA to collect money and toys for “Toys-for-Tots” Toy Drive to be given to less fortunate children in the community. To help aid in this endeavor, they sponsored an annual Christmas Toys-for-Tots Breakfast to the Advisory Committee members, faculty, staff, and students of PHS. Admission into the breakfast was to bring a new unwrapped toy for a child or money to buy toys. The toys were wrapped by the members of FBLA and FCCLA. The “Toys for Tots” toy drive and the breakfast were a success. Coverage on the Toys-for-Tots Toy Drive appeared on Fox 24-WGXA-TV of Macon on December 14 and 15, 2006.

The PHS chapter of FBLA would like to thank all those who participated to make this annual community service project a success.

Holiday Greetings From Your Region Officers

Your 2006-2007 Region V Officers wish you a Merry Christmas, and a most prosperous 2007! Enjoy your holidays, and we'll see you at the Region Leadership Conference in January!

-Natalia Rawls, Region Vice President, Perry High School
-Alan Moore, Region Reporter, Hawkinsville High School
-Michael McGhie, Region Secretary, Houston County High School
-Brittany Bryan, Conference Coordinator, Perry High School

Houston Co. Career & Tech Center Doesn't Waste Any Time Starting the Year

The FBLA chapter at the Houston County Career & Technology Centerhas had a great first semester for this school year.

Since the school is small, (full time enrollment is only 70), members are proud of the fact that they have a membership of 16 this year. HCCTC may be small but they are strong! Members have attended the Fall Motivational Rally, Fall Leadership Conference, and eleven members are planning to attend the Region V Leadership Conference Next Month.

The chapter participated in the March of Dimes Pick-A-Pumpkin service project to raise money to help save babies, and donated a scholarship basket for the Fall Leadership Conference. Members are currently conducting a canned food drive for the Salvation Army, and are working on creating coloring books for the children’s wing at a local hospital.

Some members also are participating in the instruction of an adult computer class held one night a week at the school for members of the community. The chapter has enjoyed a speaker from a local bank who spoke to on the “Importance of Building Good Credit,” and have held a meeting on “Proper Dress for the Interview.”

Members are currently looking forward to their annual FBLA Christmas get-together where they will exchange gifts and enjoy lunch and one another’s fellowship.

The chapter has also elected its 2006-2007 officers. Leading the chapter this year are:
President.....Rebecca Sills
Vice President.....Kayla Kollock
Secretary......Kasey Anderson
Treasurer.....Sarah Sisson
Reporter.......Samantha Marsh
Parliamentarian......Sam Smith
Historian......Dean Lisanby

Merry Christmas from the Houston County Career & Technology Center!

HCHS Holds "Feed a Family"

In keeping with a theme of helping the local community, members of Houston Co. High FBLA held a "Feed a Family" food drive this year. Collection boxes were placed throughout the schools business education department. Proceeds were donated to the county's Department of Family and Children Services.

Houston County Helps Out the March of Dimes

Recently, the Houston County High School FBLA chapter began a penny war between classes in the school's business education department. In the war, pennies counted for positive points, while all silver coins and greenbacks were negative. Students could place negative coins and bills in the buckets of rival classes, while putting pennies in their own buckets. To date, the chapter has raised over $200 for the March of Dimes.

Great work HCHS!

Region V Winners At FLC 2006

A huge congratulations goes out to Region V schools who were victorious in the various competitive events offered at this year's Fall Leadership Conference! Congratulations on your accomplishments, and keep up the great work!

Invention Convention
Finalists-Houston County High School
Jasper County High School

Members of the 3rd Place Houston County HS Invention Convention Team

Winning chapters will participate in a second round of competition at the State Leadership Conference in March. This segment will include a presentation before a panel of judges.

Honorable Mention-Northside High School, Warner Robins

March of Dimes Monopoly Tournament
Finalists-Baldwin County High School
Houston County High School
Putnam County High School

Finalist chapters will compete in three more rounds at the March State Leadership Conference.

Honorable Mention-Houston County High School
Northside High School, Warner Robins

Congratulations to everyone!!

Greetings from Athens

The first day of the 2006 Georgia FBLA Fall Leadership Conference is now behind us. It has certainly proved to be an enjoyable time filled with networking, exciting leadership training sessions, and the ever famous Battle of the Chapters.

Congratulations to winners in the competitive events and scholarship basket auctions that took place today. A special thanks goes out to our Executive Council, state officer advisers, our Board of Directors, hundreds of chapter advisers, and countless volunteers from across the Peach State who worked to make this great event possible. Another day of the 2006 FLC awaits us on Saturday.

FLC 2007: 24 Hours Away

The 2006 Georgia FBLA Fall Leadership Conference is only one day away. Our state officer team and their advisers are already on the way to Athens and the Classic Center, to put the finishing touches on what is sure to be a great weekend.

The Invention Convention, exciting workshops, and the Battle of the Chapters are just a few things that await us in the Classic City.

Pack your bags, load the buses, and we'll see you in Athens!

Welcome!

Welcome to the Georgia FBLA Region V blog!

On here, we'll be sharing (more frequently) news from the local, regional, state, and national levels that is relevant to our region. We're also hoping to have some special content online during FBLA-PBL events.

As we requested from each chapter at the Fall Leadership Conference, please send in any news you may have, to alanm499@gmail.com, and we'll post it up.

Here's to a great year in Georgia FBLA!