2000-2001 School Year
Worthington, Minnesota
Worthington High School
Business Professionals of America honors
Fourteen Worthington High School Business Professionals of America students have advanced to state competition March 8-10 in Minneapolis.
The students earned first, second or third place at the Jan. 26 Region Spring Leadership Conference at Granite Falls Community & Technical College.
Advancing to state, their contest and placement at region competition include: Aaron Vasecka, Justin Betz and Grant Haas, Web site Development Team, first; Ashley Bergjord, Entrepreneur, second; Austin Aker, Management Concepts, first; Austin Aker, Matthew Miller and Katie Wilson, Economic Research Team, second; Bethany Obermoller, Legal Concepts, first; Bethany Obermoller, Ingrid Rickers, Kim Sieve and Abby Wiltrout, Economic Research Team, first; Craig Ailts, Legal Concepts, third; Grant Haas, Desktop Publishing, first; Hannah Kietel, Application/Interview Skills A, third; Ingrid Rickers, Medical Office Procedures, first; Justin Betz, Verbal Communications-Extemporaneous I, first; Katie Wilson, Keyboarding, third; Kim Sieve, Application/Interview Skills B, first; Lisa Somnis, Computer-Aided Graphics, second; and Lisa Somnis, Entrepreneur, first.
The 25-member WHS BPA Chapter earned 38 awards at the regional competition.
Team members, their contest and placement at regions include: Joe Anderson, Fundamental Accounting, eighth; Aaron Vaseca, Basic Programmer, 10th, and Network Concepts, second; Abby Wiltrout, Business Knowledge Skills, third, and Integrated Office Applications, fifth; Dipesh Patel, Computer-Aided graphics, 10th, and Keyboarding, eighth; Grant Haas, Network Concepts, sixth; Hannah Kietel, Computer-Aided graphics, ninth; Ingrid Rickers, Financial Math & Analysis, third; Jon Lickness, Application/Interview Skills A, fifth, and Keyboarding, seventh; Justin Betz, Business Knowledge Skills, sixth, and Network Concepts, fifth; Kara Ruder, Joe Anderson, Dan Schafer and Jared Langseth, Financial Analyst Team, third; Katie Wilson, Network Concepts, eighth; Kim Sieve, Business Knowledge Skills, fourth, Business Law, third, and Financial Math & Analysis, fifth; Kyle Uppman, Banking & Finance, seventh, and Network Concepts, seventh; Lisa Somnis, Business Law, first; and Matt Miller, Legal Concepts, sixth.