Chadron FBLA: New Panhandle Chapters

   

At the instillation of Hay Springs FBLA, Chadron FBLA leadership team (left to right) Brooklyn Stack, Aubree Noble, Kellie Waugh, Lauren Collins, and Brooklynn Fritzler

     Chadron's FBLA chapter has been searching for local towns that will reactivate or newly activate an FBLA chapter in their town. "It has been a struggle for a long time getting more chapters in Western Nebraska," said adviser Brenda Budler, "It is actually a goal of the state FBLA board to get more chapters activated in the western part of the state and involved in competition." Being able to add these chapters will open up new opportunities for not only these western chapters, but it will also benefit the whole Nebraska FBLA chapter.
       In regards to activating the new chapters, Mrs. Budler said that the chapters are to register online on the national FBLA website, pay a $20 activation fee and turn in membership dues for at least ten members. Chadron's FBLA chapter is then able to travel to the town and activate the new chapter after a process of reciting the FBLA creed, explaining the duties as a chapter, and going over the guidelines and rules to be followed as a chapter. "The most effort we have to put in is coordinating and traveling to the reactivated school to hold the ceremony," Mrs. Budler also said.
       These reactivated chapters will lead to many new opportunities. These will include both local benefits and those at the state level. "At the local level, more chapters makes western Nebraska stronger when it comes to competition. Area meetings and business competitions will become a normality in our area," said Mrs. Budler. "At the state level, having more chapters in western Nebraska can result in more state representation at our end of the state. There will be more events, more state officer visits and hopefully more western Nebraska members running for office!"