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In December, 23 students from Mountain View FBLA competed in a wide range of topics at the 2025 FBLA Region 27 Leadership Conference held at Keystone College. Students had the opportunity to attend leadership workshops that ranged from sports in business, to Are you smarter than your region officers as well as a lot of networking with other schools in our area. Of the 23 students, 17 placed high enough to attend the State Leadership Conference in April.
Mt. View FBLA members pictured (l-r) are: front row - Ben Thomas, Cody Heinold, Logan Werkheiser, Morgan Pliska, Mayson McAndrew, Jill Pliska, Brook Danysh, Addison Tompkins, Danica Rosenbaum, Tori Griffiths, Vivian Sedlak, Claire Germana; back row - Evan Crossley, James Schoffstall, Shane Toolan, Richter Masters, Collin Pliska, Mason Thomas, Darius Kelly, Dimitri Yasnovitch, Autumn Holgate, Maddie Yachymiak. Absent from photo: Chace Schuler.
The results were as follows: Addison Tompkins, 7th place, Real Estate; Cody Heinold, 5th place, Intro to Parliamentary Procedure; Morgan Pliska, 4th place, Intro to Public Speaking; Brook Danysh and Jill Pliska, 3rd place, Sales Presentation.
State Leadership Conference Team: Tori Griffiths, 4th place, Real Estate; Chace Schuler, 4th place, Economics; Shane Toolan, 4th place, Computer Problem Solving; Logan Werkheiser, 3rd place, Economics; Evan Crossley, 2nd place, International Business; Mason Thomas, 2nd place, Business Law; Ben Thomas, 2nd place, Advertising; Vivian Sedlak, 1st place, Securities and Investments; Danica Rosenbaum, 1st place, Retail Management; Richter Masters, 1st place, Project Management; Collin Pliska, 1st place, Networking Infrastructure; Claire Germana and Maddie Yachymiak, 1st place, Marketing; Autumn Holgate, 1st place, Intro to FBLA; Mayson McAndrew, 1st place, Human Resource Management; James Schoffstall, 1st place, Business Management; Dimitri Yasnovitch, 1st place, Broadcast Journalism.
The states team will head to Hershey in April where they will compete on the state level, attend leadership workshops and receive awards at the Giant Center.
In addition, the following students were elected to the Region 27 Officer Team: Vivian Sedlak, President and Tori Griffiths, Vice President.
Pictured above (l-r) are Blue Ridge High School December, 2025 Students of the Month: first row - Grade 12 Gwendolyn Stec, HS Artist (Art) Madison Gaylord, Grade 11 Abigail Girts, Grade 9 Isabella Montague, Grade 6 Naomi Kilmer; second row - MS Athlete Blake Slocum, Grade 7 Hadley Hayes, Grade 8 Phillip Foote; MS Artist (Art) Kaiden Rivera; third row - MS/HS Assistant Principal Mr. Woodruff, Grade 10 Connor Rieman, HS Athlete Abigail Gelinger, MS/HS Principal Ms. Webster.
The State University of New York at Potsdam recently named Snapdragon Smith, of Friendsville, PA, to the SUNY Potsdam Dean's List.
Smith, whose major is Environmental Science, was among 152 students who were honored for academic excellence in the Fall 2025 semester.
To achieve the honor of being on the Dean's List, each student must have satisfactorily completed 12 numerically-graded semester hours, with a grade point average of between 3.25 and 3.49 in the given semester.
Holly Harvatine, of Kingsley, PA, was honored for academic achievement by being named to Delaware Valley University's Fall 2025 Dean's List.