BPA STUDENTS FIND SUCCESS AT REGIONAL COMPETITION

        The Westwood High School Business Professionals of America club recently competed at the Region V Competitive Events Conference at Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba on January 10th.
        Students placing 1st through 5th in Individual events, and 1st or 2nd in Team events, advance to state competition in Detroit on March 5-9, 2003.  With 38 students from Westwood competing, our chapter earned the following awards:

         Individual Events:
   1st Place: 13 4th Place: 7   
   2nd Place:  14 5th Place: 3
   3rd Place:  10
Team Events:
     1st Place: 4
       We are proud of these students and their achievements, and look forward to continued success at state competition.

Students will be pre-enrolling for next year's classes on the following schedule:
  • Juniors     Feb. 18 • Sophomores Feb. 19
  • Freshmen Feb. 20 • 8th Graders   Feb. 26

their mobile school store, the "Deals on Wheels" cart, at lunchtime. Students have designed football t-shirts showcasing the success of our football team this season, and car window decals for individual sports' teams. This class is also teaming up with many local businesses to promote tourism in

Marquette County.
     As you can see, this dynamic class offers students the opportunity to learn valuable interaction skills, while at the same time allowing them real-life experience in the business world.

MULTIMEDIA

       Multimedia is a class that was offered for the first time at Westwood last year.  In this class, students develop skills in image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop, and are introduced to the issues involved in developing creative multimedia projects.  Students also learn to create, import, edit and manipulate a variety of multimedia elements, including sound, text, video, and graphics in the development of multimedia presentations using Adobe Premiere and/or iMovie.  In the process, these students develop competence in the use of digital cameras, scanners, digital video cameras, and other peripheral equipment.