{"id":11041,"date":"2023-04-24T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2023-04-24T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:49:20","slug":"students-place-at-collegiate-fbla-state-leadership-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/24\/students-place-at-collegiate-fbla-state-leadership-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Students place at Collegiate FBLA State Leadership Conference\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11042\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11042\" class=\"wp-image-11042 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-233x310.jpg\" alt=\"students and adviser in front of FBLA banner\" width=\"233\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-233x310.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/04\/IMG_6158-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back row: Seth Hogue, Taten Piepergerdes, Michael Rader and Andrew Spitzer-Fox; Front row: Pam Klaus and Madi Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 24, 2023&#8211;Seven Missouri Western State University business students competed at the Collegiate FBLA State Leadership Conference in Springfield, Missouri earlier this month, earning a total of 12 top-5 finishes to advance to the National Leadership Conference in Atlanta in June.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development, was the keynote speaker at the conference and was named State Collegiate FBLA Advisor of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students who placed include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blake Goforth, junior accounting and management major from Desloge, Missouri, 4th Place in Foundations of Accounting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeffrey Henderson, junior computer science major from Grinnell, Iowa, 1st Place in Programming Concepts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seth Hogue, senior management major from Butler, Missouri, 2nd Place in Retail Management and 4th Place in Entrepreneurship Concepts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taten Piepergerdes, sophomore finance major from St. Joseph, 4th Place in Retail Management and 5th Place in Sports Management and Marketing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Rader, sophomore cybersecurity major from Cameron, Missouri, 2nd Place in Computer Concepts, 2nd Place in Cyber Security and 2nd Place in Networking Concepts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Spitzer-Fox, junior finance major from St. Joseph, 1st Place in Social Media Marketing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caitlyn Thompson, senior management major from Princeton, Kansas, 4th Place in Management Concepts and 5th Place in Entrepreneurship Concepts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hogue is serving this year as state president and Madi Taylor, senior management major from Brookfield, Missouri, as state vice president of membership. Both were involved in planning the conference.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 24, 2023&#8211;Seven Missouri Western State University business students competed at the Collegiate FBLA State Leadership Conference in Springfield, Missouri earlier this month, earning a total of 12 top-5 finishes to advance to the National Leadership Conference in Atlanta in June.\u00a0 Pam Klaus, director of the Center for Franchise Development, was the keynote speaker at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}