Mission students head to national FCCLA event
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ST. IGNATIUS — After putting in winning appearances at the 64th annual Montana Family, Career and Community Leaders of America State Leadership Conference March 17-19 in Billings, two members of Mission High School’s FCCLA club will be soon be on the road to Anaheim, Cali., for the national conference.
Sydney Allard was elected district president/state officer of community service for the organization, and will be attending leadership training during the national FCCLA convention. Rose Bear Don’t Walk won a bronze medal for her interpersonal communication project, in which she shows how her studies of Salish have expanded her communication skills, so she’ll be competing in the same contest at nationals. At state, the girls were just two students out of more than 930, so being selected to attend nationals is quite an honor.
“It’s hard to get to go,” FCCLA advisor Terry Cable said.
Students Shannon Wright and Ashley Courville also took silver in the chapter service manual division at state.
Bear Don’t Walk, who’s learning Salish on her own time outside of school, will be doing some fine-tuning on her project before nationals, Cable noted. She has to give a speech about her project, explain the planning process, and then is given a scenario and 15 minutes to solve a communication problem.
After Allard goes through FCCLA leadership training at the national conference, she’ll be in charge of her district as president next year and will help organize the state conference. She was one of 12 students elected to Montana’s state executive council.
Cable, who has about 20 students in FCCLA, said it’s been more than a decade since a St. Ignatius student made it to the national conference, and she’s proud of the girls’ efforts this year.
“They worked hard,” she said.
FCCLA is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences Education in public and private schools through grade 12.
The program’s mission is to promote personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Sciences education, with major focuses on strengthening the family as a basic unit of society and promoting greater understanding between youth and adults.
