Campaigning Tips
By Eeshan Garr, State President
You walk into the cold building, take off your jacket, and stare. There are more people than you expected, and a rush of questions enter your mind: “Will my campaigning go well?”, “Will people like me?”, “What’s going to happen?”.
Unfortunately, if you’re like me, this scenario is more than likely familiar. But, today, I am going to give you 3 tips on how to campaign better, not only in FBLA but anywhere.
Community Service Awards
By Ellie Stephen, State Treasurer
Take advantage of FBLA’s Community Service Awards and start recording your volunteer hours! CSAs recognize members with extraordinary commitment to community service. The awards have three levels: Community (50 hours), Service (200 hours), and Achievement (500 hours). Winners receive an online certificate of recognition and CSA Achievement winners are awarded a pin at Nationals! Any Community Service Award is a fantastic thing to put on a resume or college application as well.
To start earning yours, your chapter adviser must register you for the Community Service Awards. An email will be sent to your adviser containing your login credentials. Then, you’ll log into the Student Portal, upload the volunteer hours you’ve worked into the program, and inform your adviser when you are done. The hours you record don’t even have to be FBLA volunteering; any community service you’ve done within years past can count towards your CSA.
When you log hours equal to the requirements for a CSA Award, your adviser will login to the adviser area of the CSA, review your hours and find a link to submit the award. CSA Community and Service Awards must be submitted by March 1. The CSA Achievement Award must be submitted no later than April 25. Even after those deadlines, you can continue to upload the service you do into the program for next year since CSA hours are cumulative throughout your FBLA career. Happy volunteering!
Utilizing Social Media For Communication
By Grace Park, State Reporter
If you walk into a room full of people and ask, “Who here uses any form of social media?”, don’t be surprised when most, if not all, show a hand. Social media has rapidly encompassed a vast majority of the globe’s attention. These networking sites play an imperative role in many lives, and it’s no secret that the beauty of social media is communication.
Whether it’s liking a photo or DMing your friend, social media brings a hodgepodge of methods to exert person-to-person transmission, without having to actually meet face to face. Having the ability to connect with people by a mere touch of a button, can serve many useful purposes for people, organizations, businesses, and of course, FBLA!
A countless number of FBLA members, chapters, advisers, and alumni utilize social media as a key tool for communication. They are able to reach out to members from a different state, support fellow members, spread news about an initiative, build connections, and so much more. You can easily do the same! Try starting conversations by shooting messages, showcasing support on another member's post, launching an initiative, or spreading awareness by posting yourself! The possibilities are endless.
There are great benefits that come with using social media to strengthen your passion in FBLA. Especially during a situation like the pandemic, social media is more handy than ever. A simple follow button can give you reminders about upcoming events, useful information, and an inspiring online community. But remember- be safe. Social media is helpful and fun but also has its negative side to it, and it is essential to remain responsible while using these sites at all times. Be authentic, honest, protect your privacy, and don’t interact with negativity. Just remember those things and you’re good to go. Now start communicating!
Super Sweeps
By Brian Rapanan, State Parliamentarian
The annual “Chapter Challenge” hosted by the national office of FBLA-PBL has officially begun! The first leg of the challenge, Super Sweeps, was open for submission August 1-November 1, and Illinois FBLA is super excited to announce that five chapters successfully completed Super Sweeps!
Now, what exactly is Super Sweeps and the Chapter Challenge, you ask? The Chapter Challenge is a set of activities broken into three stages: Super Sweeps, Non Stop November, and Action Awareness. The activities are largely focused around recruiting, but may also focus on member retention and increasing chapter involvement.
While the deadline to submit Super Sweeps has passed, there is still time to take part in the Chapter Challenge! Non Stop November is officially open for chapters to begin work on, and can be submitted through December 10. Additionally, Action Awareness will be open from January 1 through March 1, so be sure to save the date. If this is something that you believe your chapter should take part in, reach out to your adviser about opening a Non Stop November or Action Awareness account, and ask them to assign you as project manager. From there, view the activities and select the ones best for you. Best of luck to all in the Chapter Challenge!
Recruiting
By Dev Patel, State VP, Central Northern Area
Recruiting is how FBLA continues to be the largest student career organization with over 230,000 members. Recruiting is an important part to help maintain our large footprint not only in the state but throughout the country. By recruiting we ensure that FBLA continues to grow each year to help more students prepare for the business world.
The best time to recruit new members is at the start of the school year. Throughout the year many students start to get business with schoolwork and other activities and may not be able to explore all the opportunities that FBLA has to offer. It is important to catch the attention of prospective members at the start of the school year so that your local FBLA chapter has a strong and fresh base going into the school year. This can be done by posting flyers throughout your school, reaching out to new incoming students, as well as having your officers and alumni spread word about FBLA throughout your school and community. Reaching out to students who are taking business courses at your school is a great idea because they already have an interest in business and would help present new opportunities to them to further their knowledge about business. As well as using social media as a tool by posting pictures and announcing meeting dates can help spread the word about FBLA very quickly. At my school every year we have an informational night with ice cream for incoming freshman to present them the unique opportunities and events that we do in FBLA throughout the year. I recommend coordinating with your advisor, officers, and alumni to brainstorm ideas as well as to strongly push the recruiting initiative throughout your chapter. Overall, recruiting is a great way to help expand your local chapter, meet new people, as well as expand FBLA. What are you waiting for? Go out and recruit!
How to Help Your Community Through FBLA
By Jessica Blomberg, State VP, South Western Area
Being a part of the Future Business Leaders of America gives you so many opportunities to positively impact your school and your community. FBLA is all about helping you to become an influential force in our society, and there are several different ways you can do that through your membership in this organization.
The easiest way to help better your community is through school activities. My local FBLA chapter does many activities that involve the school and our fellow students. For example, we hold annual food drives to collect items to donate to our local food pantries, and to make it more fun for the students we make it a competition between first period classes with a prize for the class that collects the most donations. This helps the food pantries and also reminds students to give back to their communities while at the same time getting them to have fun with their classmates. Some other examples of school activities that help your community would be fundraisers, tutoring, March of Dimes events like Purple-Out basketball games, and local business sponsorship or promotions.
Outside of just school activities, doing volunteer work is also a great way to help your community. Even in small towns like mine, it’s usually not too hard to find somewhere you can lend a hand. I’ve found that it’s always nice to work at my local food pantry, not only because I get to hand out all those items we collected at our school’s food drive, but also because I get to see the people I’m helping and make connections with them. Other options for volunteer work would be park cleanups to pick up trash or even just going to areas in your town that get a lot of foot traffic and cleaning them up to make them more enjoyable for the people in your community. Overall, it’s important to always be looking for more ways to help your community, and FBLA is just one of many outlets that can help you do that.
Business Achievement Awards
By Bridgette Galve, State VP, Northern Area
Business Achievement Awards (BAA) is one of the education and co-curricular programs that FBLA offers. It is a leadership development program that allows members to enhance their soft skills and explore an organization that offers many opportunities. When completing this program, members select activities that are targeted to expand one’s business knowledge, learn about their local community, and encourage engagement through leadership roles. BAA consists of four levels: Future, Business, Leader, America. Each level will get harder to achieve and will motive members to experience more of the targeted values. Members who participate in the program can potentially be recognized in the State Leadership Conference and the National Leadership Conference. As an award, pins will be distributed for each level that is completed. All levels have different submission deadlines but can be continued to complete for the following FBLA season till a member’s last year in high school. This is a great program to captivate the numerous possibilities to get involved in one’s local, state, regional, and national levels.
Future: Future Award focuses on the basic business skills, community services, and communication within your local chapter. At this level, members will need to complete 10 activities within the Service, Education, and Progress categories.
Business: Business Award focuses on expanding business skills as well as increase involvement at the regional, state, and/or national levels. Members will need to complete 12 activities within the Service, Education, and Progress categories.
Leader: Leader Award focuses on advanced leadership and business skills while further engagement within the local, state, regional, and national levels. There are a total of 14 activities to be completed within the Service, Education, and Progress categories
America: America Award focuses on combining all of the past level objectives and instills a spirit of joy! This level requires 15 activities to be completed within the Service, Education, and Progress level.
Competitive Events
By Brandon Kurecki, State VP, Central Area
Competitive events are easily one of the best aspects of FBLA. This is your chance to set yourself apart from your peers, and get onto that stage to show everyone how hard you worked. There is a lot of pressure that comes with competitive events, but don’t worry. If you follow these steps, the high stakes and intense pressure might not seem so bad.
Opportunities at Area Conferences
By Callie McAdams, State VP, Western Area
Each of the seven Illinois FBLA regions hold an area conference. These conferences are hosted by the president of the respective area. Area conferences are the first conferences of the year for the majority of FBLA members. Area conferences prepare members for the upcoming state and national conferences by offering a variety of opportunities including:
● Networking- Area conferences provide a great opportunity for members to network with members from other schools.
● Competition- Area conferences mark the start of competitive events. Competitors can test their skills and find out who is prepared to compete at the state level.
● Awards- Competitors can receive awards for their competitive events. Awards recognize the success and hard work of competitors who do well in their competition.
● Workshops- Members have the opportunity to attend different workshops at their area conference. Through workshops, members can acquire useful information and knowledge.
● Leadership- Members can run for area officer positions. Being an area officer, enables members to grow as leaders.
These are just a few of the key components that area conferences consist of. Area conferences provide numerous opportunities and countless possibilities. Every FBLA member leaves their area conference with their own unique experiences and stories.
State Project
By Eli Tsung, State VP, Southern Area
Your chapter’s accomplishments shouldn’t go unrecognized. Every year at state conference, chapters can receive awards for completing special projects. Descriptions of the projects your chapter completes will be filled out with state registration forms. Especially with this year’s circumstances, how you achieve these awards are up to your chapter and the creativity, leadership, and initiative you demonstrate. Find more information at http://www.ilfbla.org/uploads/4/6/7/6/4676142/illinois_fbla_state_projects.pdf
1. Go Green Project -- Chapters can receive this award for completing a green initiative project. This can include things such as recycling initiatives at your school, cleaning up trash from natural areas, or anything else that your chapter achieves that helps protect our environment.
2. Connecting Generations -- This award is for chapters that complete a project with senior citizens.
3. Legislative Advisory -- Any event or project that includes involvement from legislators (state representatives or state senators) is eligible for achieving this award. Find your state legislators here: https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/DistrictLocator/AddressFinder.aspx
4. Local Recruitment of a Chapter -- This award is for chapters that reactivate or charter new FBLA chapters at other schools.
5. Promote FBLA -- Chapters that complete projects for FBLA-PBL week that promote FBLA are eligible to receive this award.
6. Spring up the Middle Level -- This award is achieved by promoting Middle Level FBLA.
7. Support American Enterprise Day -- Chapters that educate in their communities about the American enterprise system are eligible for this award. See more at https://www.fbla-pbl.org/cmh/celebrations/american-enterprise-day/
8. SCRITS -- This award is for students that complete a networking project with a local business. See more at http://www.fbla.gen.il.us/docs/SCRITS.pdf
9. Mary E. Webb Award -- This award is given to one outstanding adviser each year.
10. Robert T. Stickler Award -- This award is given to one outstanding chapter each year.
By Eeshan Garr, State President
You walk into the cold building, take off your jacket, and stare. There are more people than you expected, and a rush of questions enter your mind: “Will my campaigning go well?”, “Will people like me?”, “What’s going to happen?”.
Unfortunately, if you’re like me, this scenario is more than likely familiar. But, today, I am going to give you 3 tips on how to campaign better, not only in FBLA but anywhere.
- Be Likeable → In addition to your speech and goals, when it comes to campaigning, the best thing that you can do is try to be likable as you can. The more people that like you mean the more votes you could receive. When you walk into a room, walk with a smile, perhaps talking with a friend or two. If you have someone you’re running against, don’t look down on them or avoid talking to them, go up and introduce yourself. Try to be nice to everyone you see, because everyone likes people who are positive and make themselves feel good!
- Talk of the Conference → As soon as you arrive at the conference, you should aim to be the talk of the conference. Perhaps people are talking about your amazing speech or your eye-catching campaign booth, but no matter what it is, it’s important to give the people something to talk about. I would suggest trying to stand out in the 2 areas that I previously mentioned: your speech or your campaign booth. These two aspects of your campaign are easy to stand out in and are where you can be the most creative. When you are planning either of these two aspects, try brainstorming with others. Odds are, when you brainstorm with others, you can come up with better ideas.
- Relax and Show That You’re Human → When it comes to campaigning, it’s easy to get into “professionalism 24/7” mode. You are thinking about whether or not your every step, breath, and hand movement is professional or not. But remember, you’re human. You will make mistakes, no matter what. So, relax a little bit. Show the people that you’re human just like the rest of them, you’re not just focused on your campaign or getting votes. When you’re talking to people, throw a joke or two in there or ask them how they’re doing. Show people who you truly are, not who you want them to see you as.
Community Service Awards
By Ellie Stephen, State Treasurer
Take advantage of FBLA’s Community Service Awards and start recording your volunteer hours! CSAs recognize members with extraordinary commitment to community service. The awards have three levels: Community (50 hours), Service (200 hours), and Achievement (500 hours). Winners receive an online certificate of recognition and CSA Achievement winners are awarded a pin at Nationals! Any Community Service Award is a fantastic thing to put on a resume or college application as well.
To start earning yours, your chapter adviser must register you for the Community Service Awards. An email will be sent to your adviser containing your login credentials. Then, you’ll log into the Student Portal, upload the volunteer hours you’ve worked into the program, and inform your adviser when you are done. The hours you record don’t even have to be FBLA volunteering; any community service you’ve done within years past can count towards your CSA.
When you log hours equal to the requirements for a CSA Award, your adviser will login to the adviser area of the CSA, review your hours and find a link to submit the award. CSA Community and Service Awards must be submitted by March 1. The CSA Achievement Award must be submitted no later than April 25. Even after those deadlines, you can continue to upload the service you do into the program for next year since CSA hours are cumulative throughout your FBLA career. Happy volunteering!
Utilizing Social Media For Communication
By Grace Park, State Reporter
If you walk into a room full of people and ask, “Who here uses any form of social media?”, don’t be surprised when most, if not all, show a hand. Social media has rapidly encompassed a vast majority of the globe’s attention. These networking sites play an imperative role in many lives, and it’s no secret that the beauty of social media is communication.
Whether it’s liking a photo or DMing your friend, social media brings a hodgepodge of methods to exert person-to-person transmission, without having to actually meet face to face. Having the ability to connect with people by a mere touch of a button, can serve many useful purposes for people, organizations, businesses, and of course, FBLA!
A countless number of FBLA members, chapters, advisers, and alumni utilize social media as a key tool for communication. They are able to reach out to members from a different state, support fellow members, spread news about an initiative, build connections, and so much more. You can easily do the same! Try starting conversations by shooting messages, showcasing support on another member's post, launching an initiative, or spreading awareness by posting yourself! The possibilities are endless.
There are great benefits that come with using social media to strengthen your passion in FBLA. Especially during a situation like the pandemic, social media is more handy than ever. A simple follow button can give you reminders about upcoming events, useful information, and an inspiring online community. But remember- be safe. Social media is helpful and fun but also has its negative side to it, and it is essential to remain responsible while using these sites at all times. Be authentic, honest, protect your privacy, and don’t interact with negativity. Just remember those things and you’re good to go. Now start communicating!
Super Sweeps
By Brian Rapanan, State Parliamentarian
The annual “Chapter Challenge” hosted by the national office of FBLA-PBL has officially begun! The first leg of the challenge, Super Sweeps, was open for submission August 1-November 1, and Illinois FBLA is super excited to announce that five chapters successfully completed Super Sweeps!
Now, what exactly is Super Sweeps and the Chapter Challenge, you ask? The Chapter Challenge is a set of activities broken into three stages: Super Sweeps, Non Stop November, and Action Awareness. The activities are largely focused around recruiting, but may also focus on member retention and increasing chapter involvement.
While the deadline to submit Super Sweeps has passed, there is still time to take part in the Chapter Challenge! Non Stop November is officially open for chapters to begin work on, and can be submitted through December 10. Additionally, Action Awareness will be open from January 1 through March 1, so be sure to save the date. If this is something that you believe your chapter should take part in, reach out to your adviser about opening a Non Stop November or Action Awareness account, and ask them to assign you as project manager. From there, view the activities and select the ones best for you. Best of luck to all in the Chapter Challenge!
Recruiting
By Dev Patel, State VP, Central Northern Area
Recruiting is how FBLA continues to be the largest student career organization with over 230,000 members. Recruiting is an important part to help maintain our large footprint not only in the state but throughout the country. By recruiting we ensure that FBLA continues to grow each year to help more students prepare for the business world.
The best time to recruit new members is at the start of the school year. Throughout the year many students start to get business with schoolwork and other activities and may not be able to explore all the opportunities that FBLA has to offer. It is important to catch the attention of prospective members at the start of the school year so that your local FBLA chapter has a strong and fresh base going into the school year. This can be done by posting flyers throughout your school, reaching out to new incoming students, as well as having your officers and alumni spread word about FBLA throughout your school and community. Reaching out to students who are taking business courses at your school is a great idea because they already have an interest in business and would help present new opportunities to them to further their knowledge about business. As well as using social media as a tool by posting pictures and announcing meeting dates can help spread the word about FBLA very quickly. At my school every year we have an informational night with ice cream for incoming freshman to present them the unique opportunities and events that we do in FBLA throughout the year. I recommend coordinating with your advisor, officers, and alumni to brainstorm ideas as well as to strongly push the recruiting initiative throughout your chapter. Overall, recruiting is a great way to help expand your local chapter, meet new people, as well as expand FBLA. What are you waiting for? Go out and recruit!
How to Help Your Community Through FBLA
By Jessica Blomberg, State VP, South Western Area
Being a part of the Future Business Leaders of America gives you so many opportunities to positively impact your school and your community. FBLA is all about helping you to become an influential force in our society, and there are several different ways you can do that through your membership in this organization.
The easiest way to help better your community is through school activities. My local FBLA chapter does many activities that involve the school and our fellow students. For example, we hold annual food drives to collect items to donate to our local food pantries, and to make it more fun for the students we make it a competition between first period classes with a prize for the class that collects the most donations. This helps the food pantries and also reminds students to give back to their communities while at the same time getting them to have fun with their classmates. Some other examples of school activities that help your community would be fundraisers, tutoring, March of Dimes events like Purple-Out basketball games, and local business sponsorship or promotions.
Outside of just school activities, doing volunteer work is also a great way to help your community. Even in small towns like mine, it’s usually not too hard to find somewhere you can lend a hand. I’ve found that it’s always nice to work at my local food pantry, not only because I get to hand out all those items we collected at our school’s food drive, but also because I get to see the people I’m helping and make connections with them. Other options for volunteer work would be park cleanups to pick up trash or even just going to areas in your town that get a lot of foot traffic and cleaning them up to make them more enjoyable for the people in your community. Overall, it’s important to always be looking for more ways to help your community, and FBLA is just one of many outlets that can help you do that.
Business Achievement Awards
By Bridgette Galve, State VP, Northern Area
Business Achievement Awards (BAA) is one of the education and co-curricular programs that FBLA offers. It is a leadership development program that allows members to enhance their soft skills and explore an organization that offers many opportunities. When completing this program, members select activities that are targeted to expand one’s business knowledge, learn about their local community, and encourage engagement through leadership roles. BAA consists of four levels: Future, Business, Leader, America. Each level will get harder to achieve and will motive members to experience more of the targeted values. Members who participate in the program can potentially be recognized in the State Leadership Conference and the National Leadership Conference. As an award, pins will be distributed for each level that is completed. All levels have different submission deadlines but can be continued to complete for the following FBLA season till a member’s last year in high school. This is a great program to captivate the numerous possibilities to get involved in one’s local, state, regional, and national levels.
Future: Future Award focuses on the basic business skills, community services, and communication within your local chapter. At this level, members will need to complete 10 activities within the Service, Education, and Progress categories.
Business: Business Award focuses on expanding business skills as well as increase involvement at the regional, state, and/or national levels. Members will need to complete 12 activities within the Service, Education, and Progress categories.
Leader: Leader Award focuses on advanced leadership and business skills while further engagement within the local, state, regional, and national levels. There are a total of 14 activities to be completed within the Service, Education, and Progress categories
America: America Award focuses on combining all of the past level objectives and instills a spirit of joy! This level requires 15 activities to be completed within the Service, Education, and Progress level.
Competitive Events
By Brandon Kurecki, State VP, Central Area
Competitive events are easily one of the best aspects of FBLA. This is your chance to set yourself apart from your peers, and get onto that stage to show everyone how hard you worked. There is a lot of pressure that comes with competitive events, but don’t worry. If you follow these steps, the high stakes and intense pressure might not seem so bad.
- Choose an event you enjoy: If you can’t stand to talk in front of a crowd, Public Speaking might not be your best bet. Choose an event that plays to your strengths that you already have skills in. However, never be afraid to step outside of your comfort zone, play to your strengths and improve your weaknesses
- Understand your event: Some events are completely different from what the name might imply, so make sure you understand what you are getting yourself into. Do some research and look at the projects and presentations of those who came before you.
- Practice more than you think you need to: When did practice ever hurt anyone? The farther you go, the more you should practice; you’ll end up having more confidence when you walk into the competition room.
- Worst case-best case scenario: If you’re nervous when practicing, consider the worst and best possible things that could happen. This is a good psychological trick to comfort the mind because you will understand the range of possibilities.
- Have confidence: No matter the event, confidence is one of the defining factors of the high performers. Take that test with the mindset you are going to kill it. Give your presentation with the mindset that you are the best. Stay humble though, but be confident.
- Focus on the task at hand: Stop thinking about winning 1st place or how much fun you had at the dance, be here now. You can celebrate when it’s over, but stay focused for now and do your best while competing.
- Stay positive: If you slip up, mess up, and really blow it, so what? Keep going. Stay positive, leave the judges shocked that you recovered and finished strong.
- It's not about what place you get: I cannot stress this enough, the place you get does not matter. Setting goals for yourself is great, but don’t underestimate how valuable the journey you’ve come on was.
- Have fun: FBLA is very serious most of the time, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Crack a joke (keep it appropriate) with the judges, laugh a little. If you make yourself comfortable while keeping formal, you will seem more professional.
- Learn something for the future: You can always do better, there is always improvement. How would you do better next year? Learn something from your failures and shortcomings, but be proud of what you have accomplished. You are a future business leader, never stop learning.
Opportunities at Area Conferences
By Callie McAdams, State VP, Western Area
Each of the seven Illinois FBLA regions hold an area conference. These conferences are hosted by the president of the respective area. Area conferences are the first conferences of the year for the majority of FBLA members. Area conferences prepare members for the upcoming state and national conferences by offering a variety of opportunities including:
● Networking- Area conferences provide a great opportunity for members to network with members from other schools.
● Competition- Area conferences mark the start of competitive events. Competitors can test their skills and find out who is prepared to compete at the state level.
● Awards- Competitors can receive awards for their competitive events. Awards recognize the success and hard work of competitors who do well in their competition.
● Workshops- Members have the opportunity to attend different workshops at their area conference. Through workshops, members can acquire useful information and knowledge.
● Leadership- Members can run for area officer positions. Being an area officer, enables members to grow as leaders.
These are just a few of the key components that area conferences consist of. Area conferences provide numerous opportunities and countless possibilities. Every FBLA member leaves their area conference with their own unique experiences and stories.
State Project
By Eli Tsung, State VP, Southern Area
Your chapter’s accomplishments shouldn’t go unrecognized. Every year at state conference, chapters can receive awards for completing special projects. Descriptions of the projects your chapter completes will be filled out with state registration forms. Especially with this year’s circumstances, how you achieve these awards are up to your chapter and the creativity, leadership, and initiative you demonstrate. Find more information at http://www.ilfbla.org/uploads/4/6/7/6/4676142/illinois_fbla_state_projects.pdf
1. Go Green Project -- Chapters can receive this award for completing a green initiative project. This can include things such as recycling initiatives at your school, cleaning up trash from natural areas, or anything else that your chapter achieves that helps protect our environment.
2. Connecting Generations -- This award is for chapters that complete a project with senior citizens.
3. Legislative Advisory -- Any event or project that includes involvement from legislators (state representatives or state senators) is eligible for achieving this award. Find your state legislators here: https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/DistrictLocator/AddressFinder.aspx
4. Local Recruitment of a Chapter -- This award is for chapters that reactivate or charter new FBLA chapters at other schools.
5. Promote FBLA -- Chapters that complete projects for FBLA-PBL week that promote FBLA are eligible to receive this award.
6. Spring up the Middle Level -- This award is achieved by promoting Middle Level FBLA.
7. Support American Enterprise Day -- Chapters that educate in their communities about the American enterprise system are eligible for this award. See more at https://www.fbla-pbl.org/cmh/celebrations/american-enterprise-day/
8. SCRITS -- This award is for students that complete a networking project with a local business. See more at http://www.fbla.gen.il.us/docs/SCRITS.pdf
9. Mary E. Webb Award -- This award is given to one outstanding adviser each year.
10. Robert T. Stickler Award -- This award is given to one outstanding chapter each year.
