Future Business Leaders of America meet ranging from fifteen minutes to forty-five minutes intermittently throughout the week in E209 planning, learning, and preparing for their future gatherings and events that will help them develop stronger leadership skills

Members in FBLA prepare for events by taking tests and using organization skills that help them improve their communication, leadership, and teamwork skills. The tests consist of questions that show students their level of mastery or knowledge in that aspect of business, with multiple different categories students may take. 

FBLA events incorporate students speaking in front of two to three judges that will evaluate students on their performance using rubrics and will later mention things they had noticed during the students performance. Student Nycah Robinson, senior, began participating in FBLA this school year and has only made improvements throughout the year. 

“Growing up I had a lot of stage fright,” Nycha said. “This gives you an opening for real life events where you have to speak in front of important people, and speaking proudly in front of these judges has helped me improve a lot.”

Some members of FBLA come back every year to participate in events to expand even more in their future business leading skills, participating in FBLA can help students improve in criteria that is often overlooked in the normal grading system.

“With FBLA we really try to focus on not only the business aspect of it, but also focus on their passions within the realm of business.” Sawyer Wade, digital media teacher said. “Some students are more passionate about graphic design than others or marketing. So I want to help them improve their job interview skills.” 

FBLA gives students an opportunity for them to look into a possible future career and expand their knowledge into the skills needed for those careers.

“Last year I was interested in accounting, before business management I wanted to be an auditor.” Mason Khul, sophomore said. “My grandfather was an audit partner at an audit firm for thirty years, so I wanted to follow him. But then I found consulting and I switched to that.”