Students holding their awards at BPA competition.

Following the recent BPA Region 14 competition, 91 students from BPA chapters at Eastland Career Center, Fairfield Career Center, and its satellite locations have qualified to compete at the state conference.


Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools students in the Business Professionals of America (BPA) career technical student organization showed well at the Region 14 held during the first week of February. More than 90 students qualified to compete at the BPA state conference.

Of the 91 total students that will compete at the state conference, 39 walked away as first-place finishers in their respective events. Twenty-seven of those event winners came from the Multimedia satellite program hosted at Pickerington High School North, including three team victories. The remaining winners and state qualifiers are students from the Programming & Software Design, Medical Office, or Interactive Media programs housed at Eastland Career Center.

Students who qualify for the BPA State Leadership Conference will compete on March 10 and March 11 for the opportunity to advance to the BPA National Leadership Conference.

BPA students from ECC

About BPA
Business Professionals of America (BPA) is the premier career and technical student organization for students pursuing careers in business management, information technology, finance, office administration, health administration, and other related career fields. With 45,000 members in over 1,800 chapters across 25 states and Puerto Rico, as well as an international presence in China, Haiti, and Peru, BPA is an organization that supports business and information technology educators by offering co-curricular exercises based on national standards.

The following is a list of students who won their respective events and/or qualified for the BPA State Conference.

Video Production Team
Gabe Garcia (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Jack Spear (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Jacob Hoover (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Cai Watts (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 1st place

User Experience (UX) Design Team
Caden Scarberry (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Lucas Schalmo (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Lincoln Purcell (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Aidan Montei (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 1st place

Web Design Team
Hanan Adem (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Caleb Creviston (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Nick Smith (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Brayden Snipes (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 2nd place

Broadcast News Production Team
Nicholas Markle (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Brady Kreinbrink (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Zach Ayers (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 2nd place

Isaiah Williams (Sr., Pickerington Central, Multimedia), Aaron Graves (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Multimedia) - 3rd place

Podcast Production Team
Malcolm Maccarthy (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Kamaryn Reedus (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Skyler Lowe (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Leah Duff (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 1st place

Jeremiah Davis (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia), Darrell Ferrell (Jr., Canal Winchester, Multimedia), Matthew Wymer (Jr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 2nd place

Fundamental Word Processing
Samantha Hamilton (Sr., Reynoldsburg, Medical Office) - 1st place
Brooklyn Moses  (Sr., Groveport Madison, Medical Office) - 2nd place
Sarai Blevins (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Medical Office) - 3rd place
Gabriella Castillo (Jr., Pickerington Central, Medical Office) - 6th place
Seray Sidibay (Jr., Canal Winchester, Medical Office) - 7th place
Josaulyn Orton (Jr., Canal Winchester, Medical Office) - 8th place

Intermediate Word Processing
Arlette Feliz (Sr., Canal Winchester, Medical Office) - 1st place
Alaya Franklin (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Medical Office) - 4th place
Tessah Anastasia (Sr., Groveport Madison, Medical Office) - 5th place
Pamela Cortes Garcia (Sr., Whitehall-Yearling, Medical Office) - 7th place
Zyonne Lindsay (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Medical Office) - 8th place
Sydnie White (Sr., Groveport Madison, Medical Office) - 9th place

Basic Office Systems & Procedures
Lesly Rangel Gutierrez (Jr., Whitehall-Yearling, Medical Office) - 1st place
Tania Duran Garcia (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Medical Office) - 3rd place
Durati Liban (Sr., Hamilton Twp., Medical Office) - 4th place

Fundamental Spreadsheets
Promad Pokhrel (Jr., Pickerington North, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Liam Weaver (Jr., BEX, Programming & Software Development) - 2nd place
Zahrya Cruz Diaz (Jr., Whitehall-Yearling, Programming & Software Development) - 4th place
Jesse Parrilla (Jr., Pickerington North, Programming & Software Development) - 6th place
Peter Msami (Jr., Canal Winchester, Programming & Software Development) - 8th place
Assane Ba (Jr., Groveport Madison, Programming & Software Development) - 10th place

Advanced Spreadsheets
Blessing Mensah (Sr., Groveport Madison, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place ^
Violet McGraw (Sr., Hamilton Twp., Programming & Software Development) - 3rd place
Owen Gilligan (Sr., Pickerington Central, Programming & Software Development) - 4th place
Binan Magar (Sr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) - 5th place
Tamara Gruevska (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Programming & Software Development) - 6th place
Karim Basse (Sr., Canal Winchester, Programming & Software Development) - 7th place

Database Applications
Violet McGraw (Sr., Hamilton Twp., Programming & Software Development) - 1st place ^

Administration Support Team
Selah Dean (Jr., Pickerington North, Medical Office), Shylee Knight (Jr., Canal Winchester, Medical Office), Zahyra Cruz Diaz ^  (Jr., Whitehall-Yearling, Programming & Software Design), Kaylia Chung (Jr., Canal Winchester, Programming & Software Design), Brayden McMillen (Jr., Hamilton Twp., Programming & Software Design) - 1st place

Cory Barr (Jr., Teays Valley, Medical Office), Xavier Brandel ^ (Jr., Pickerington North, Programming & Software Design), Jaida Miller (Jr., Pickerington Central, Programming & Software Design), Lilah Mwansa (Jr., Canal Winchester, Medical Office), Binisha Adhikari (Jr., Pickerington Central, Programming & Software Design) - 2nd place

Brooke Sargent (Jr., Fairfield Union, Medical Office), Melania Budzevska ^ (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Design), Lauren Dickensheets (Jr., Groveport Madison, Programming & Software Design), Adrienne Woods (Jr., Groveport Madison, Medical Office) - 4th place

C# Programming
Owen Gilligan (Sr., Pickerington Central, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Shawn Theobald (Jr., Teays Valley, Programming & Software Development) - 3rd place

C++ Programming
Elijah Crye (Sr., Teays Valley, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place

Java Programming
Binam Magar (Sr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place ^
Gabriel Llewellyn (Sr., Groveport Madison, Programming & Software Development) - 3rd place
Matt Kuhn (Sr., Teays Valley, Programming & Software Development) - 4th place
Haben Andemariam (Sr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) - 5th place
Baslel Etissa (Sr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) -7th place

Fundamentals of Web Design
Aditi Pyakurel (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Multimedia) - 1st place
Lucas Schalmo (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 2nd place
Sarah Tadres (Sr., Pickerington North, Multimedia) - 3rd place
Kelise Smith (Sr., Groveport Madison, Programming & Software Development) - 4th place

Digital Media Production
Jolie Kingrey (Sr., Groveport Madison, Interactive Media) - 1st place
Jeremia Bambu (Jr., Pickerington Central, Multimedia) - 3rd place
Solomon Mccray (Jr., Groveport Madison, Multimedia) - 4th place

Website Design Team
Aidien Gooden (Sr., Whitehall-Yearling, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Jabari Hill (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Sean Kalb (Sr., Hamilton Twp., Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Gabriel Zeigler (Sr., Gahanna Lincoln, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place

Digital Communications & Design Concepts (Open)
Micchon Moorehead (Sr., Groveport Madison, Interactive Media) - 1st place ^

Small Business Management Team
Xavier Brandel (Jr., Pickerington North, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Melania Budzevska (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Ashmin Siwakoti (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place
Brenden Woodfork (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place

Extemporaneous Speech
Auset Griffin (Jr., Pickerington North, Programming & Software Development) - 3rd place

Human Resources Management
Blessing Mensah Abrampah (Sr., Groveport Madison, Programming & Software Development) - 1st place

Health Administration
Puja Biswa (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Medical Office) - 1st place
Dresden Smith (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Medical Office) - 2nd place
Mariam Doucoure (Jr., Groveport Madison, Medical Office) - 3rd place
Andrea Greyer (Jr., Hamilton Twp., Medical Office) - 4th place
Mary Camara (Jr., Reynoldsburg, Medical Office) - 5th place
Alix Davis (Jr., Fairfield Union, Medical Office) - 9th place

Health Administration Concepts (Open)
Pamela Cortes Garcia (Sr., Whitehall-Yearling, Medical Office) - 1st place ^

^ indicates that the student declined to participate in this event at States or the event was not eligible for state competition
* indicates that the student will serve as a substitute on this team at the state competition

BPA students from Multimedia