Lincoln Southwest FBLA

Today was the last day of school for LPS students. Two weeks ago, our chapter wrapped up our school year with our Annual FBLA Fiesta!! We are sad to see our seniors go, but excited to see the momentum we have built this year continue into the 2026-2027 school year! Have A Great Summer Hawks!!

Another State Leadership Conference in the books!

Last week we travelled out to Kearney for the 2026 State Leadership Conference and it was another success-filled conference! We had three students auto-qualify for the National Leadership Conference by placing in the Top 3 of their respective events. Then throughout the course of this week after SLC, we had four more students who became eligible (students are only allowed to compete in one event at NLC so when a student places in the top three in multiple they must choose, then Nebraska FBLA will move down the list until we fill our three qualifying spots for each event)!! The full list of accomplishments are below.

We will be sending EIGHT students to compete at this year's NLC in San Antonio, TX! If you did the math from above you will see we have seven students traveling to compete... our eighth student traveling to San Antonio is HARNOOR SIDHU who became just the third student in our chapter's history to be elected to the Nebraska FBLA State Officer team! She put together a wonderful campaign and will serve as the 2026-2027 Nebraska FBLA State Secretary!!

Here is our list of accomplishments from this year's competition. Students traveling to NLC are marked with an **. Also note that HM stands for Honorable Mention and means they were in the Top 4% of their event, just not in the Top 8 to get on stage:

ADVERTISING
2nd - Alex Shaeffer
4th - Xavier Sorto
8th - MacKenna Bell

BROADCAST JOURNALSIM
HM - Mayu Kadiri & Dhiya Humeshkar

BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
8th - Xavier Sorto

CYBERSECURITY
5th - Carter Stock **

ECONOMICS
6th - Alex Shaeffer
HM - MacKenna Bell

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
2nd - Xavier Sorto & Alex Shaeffer **

GRAPHIC DESIGN
1st - MacKenna Bell **

JOB INTERVIEW
Semifinalist - Xavier Sorto

INSURANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT
3rd - Alex Shaeffer

INTRO TO BUSINESS CONCEPTS
HM - Carter Stock

INTRO TO SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
5th - Carter Stock
8th - Krista Oetken

INTRO TO RETAIL MANAGEMENT
HM - Owen Wright **

JOURNALISM
HM - MacKenna Bell
HM - Addi Psota **

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
HM - Harnoor Sidhu

PERSONAL FINANCE
5th - Alex Shaeffer

REAL ESTATE
4th - Jonathon Oetken
HM - Carter Brady **

VIRTUAL BUSINESS CHALLENGE - MANAGEMENT
1st - Xavier Sorto & Alex Shaeffer

WHO'S WHO IN NEBRASKA FBLA
Xavier Sorto (chapter representative)

ALL STATE QUALITY MEMBER AWARDS
Xavier Sorto
Payton Wilkason
Harnoor Sidhu

WAY TO GO HAWKS!!! 💚🖤💚🖤💚

We are only TWO WEEKS away from this year's SLC! Which means it's time for those final touches on presentation and role play events. We are so thankful to our AMAZING alumni who are able to make it back for our Tuesday Study Sessions (throughout the year, and especially during these final weeks).

Thank you for helping to support the chapter you helped us build! 💚🩶💚🩶💚

Thank you to Stephen Hawke at Hudl for giving our chapter a tour of your headquarters down in the Haymarket last week. We appreciated learning about everything Hudl does, how it has grown, and the workplace culture you have. The views from the top floor were pretty sweet as well.

Food Blitz XIII took place this past weekend, and we are so thankful for everyone that stopped by one of our seven B&R Stores locations to donate to People's City Mission! This year's total was a new EVENT RECORD of 12,526 pounds of food (and hygiene products)! Here is the breakdown per store/school chapter:

* Super Saver Pine Lake ~ Southwest FBLA: 3,941
* Super Saver Fallbrook ~ North Star FBLA: 3,237
* Russ's Market 33rd & NE Pkwy ~ Southeast FBLA & DECA: 2,306
* Super Saver 56th & NE Pkwy ~ Standing Bear FBLA: 1,819
* Russ's Market Havelock ~ Northeast FBLA: 491
* Russ's Coddington & A ~ Southwest DECA: 408
* Russ's 66th & O Street ~ East FBLA & DECA: 324

We also want to thank The Ticket, B107.3, and 10/11 News for providing us with some air time the week leading up to our event to help promote it and bring in this year's record breaking total!