The Dixie High School Future Business Leaders of America received numerous state awards at the 2016 South Carolina FBLA Leadership Conference held at the Charleston Convention Center, March 11-13.  Dixie High School was one of many high schools and career centers from across the state of South Carolina participating in this year’s conference.

Winners of state competitions were as follows:  Agribusiness – 1^st Addie Little; Intro to Financial Math – 2^nd Kathryn Ware; Business Ethics – 2^nd Haleigh Phillips and Sara Beth Sears; Intro to Business Procedures – 1^st Elizabeth Ashley, 3^rd Morcedees Hyman; Business Communications – 3^rd Marissa Hines; Personal Finance – 2^nd Austin Spencer; Management Decision Making – 1^st Austin Phillips and Christian Rudmann; Hospitality Management – 1^st Fenn Williamson and Austin Wilson.

These students have qualified to compete at Nationals in Atlanta, GA this summer.

FBLA is the largest and oldest business career student organization in the world.  The South Carolina FBLA, which has over 3,300 members, is affiliated with the National FBLA which has more than a quarter of a million members in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Beverly Spivey and Brian Milford serve as FBLA advisers at Dixie High School.

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FBLA STATE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE WINNERS  

Front row: Morcedees Hyman, Elizabeth Ashley, Sara Beth Sears, Haleigh Phillips, Austin Phillips, Addie Little, Christian Rudmann, Kathryn Ware, Fenn Williamson, Austin Spencer, Austin Wilson and Marissa Hines.