BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Leader Award Activities
 

SERVICE (Complete 4 activities from this section. The first 3 are required.)

Activity 1 Communications/Information Technology
Required. Complete the FBLA International Recruitment Project. You will use the country and the information that you compiled for the Leader Level.

Activity 2 Communications/Information Technology
Required. Create an online autobiographical scrapbook presentation (movie, podcast, or slide show) highlighting your life – this must include FBLA activities, community service activities, and demonstrate leadership skills.

Activity 3 Communications/Information Technology
Participate on a committee to plan a free enterprise project for elementary or junior high students. As part of this project, design a free enterprise board game or card game (i.e. bingo, etc.) to help students learn these concepts.

Activity 4 Service Learning/Communications
Do something special for Adviser Appreciation Day during FBLA-PBL Week for your local or state adviser.

Activity 5 Service Learning
Plan and participate in leadership project of your choice that is designed to help your local chapter recruit and retain members and that has been approved by your local chapter adviser.

Activity 6 Communications
Contact local businesses to find door prizes for members for drawings for local chapter meetings.

Activity 7 Communications/Service Learning
Help your local chapter sponsor an environmental slogan contest and an environmental project of your choice for your school.

Activity 8 Communications
Work with your local chapter adviser to plan a special Power Lunch meeting with chapter members. Invite a guest speaker from business and prepare a program.

Activity 9 Communications
Help prepare skit about the benefits of saving money and present to middle level students. Plan a project where students use the information that you taught them.

EDUCATION (Complete 6 activities from this section. The first 3 are required.)

Activity 10 Information Technology
Required. Go to one of the popular blog sites such as edublog.com or blogger.com and start your own blog.

Activity 11 Information Technology/Communications
Required. Complete the E-Portfolio project by using the interactive template. Some of the items that will be included will be a title page, a letter to the viewers, a table of contents, photographs, voice recording, videos, scanned documents, projects, a FBLA marketing plan. etc.

Activity 12 Informational Technology/Communications
Required. Create a TBL Magazine cover and feature story about the San Antonio NLC with at least three photos and two quotes for the spring issue of Tomorrow’s Business Leader, FBLA’s national magazine. Include at least one photo on the cover as well as a bulleted list of articles that are inside this edition.

Activity 13 Communications/Social Media
Watch the Video – Social Media, is it a Fad. Submit a feasible, detailed plan to President and CEO, Ms. Jean Buckley, for a new nation-wide project. This proposal must be at least two pages in length, include a budget, and a bar graph for pie chart.

Activity 14 Communications/Information Technology
Develop a FBLA game show, a FBLA music video, or a reality show about FBLA. (Prepare a story board and using electronic media such as video, You Tube, podcast, etc)

Activity 15 Technology/Communications
Develop and post a You Tube video about how FBLA has helped you prepare for your future career.

Activity 16 Communications
Plan and prepare a report for district/regional, state, or national competition (i.e., Business Plan, American Enterprise Project, Community Service Project, Local Chapter Annual Business Report, or Partnership with Business Project.)

Activity 17 Technology
Research virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and holographic entertainment worlds. Discuss how this technology will reshape economics and marketing and how FBLA can use some of this information in a two-three page report.

Progress (Complete 5 activities from this section. The first 3 are required.)

Activity 18 FBLA National Organization and Programs
Required. Complete the requirements for Membership Mania or recruit 2 Professional Division members.

Activity 19 FBLA National Organization and Programs
Required. Secure a letter of recommendation about your leadership skills and why you are deserving of the America award from your local or state adviser.

Activity 20 Career Development/Business
Required. Complete the Etiquette quiz with a score of 92% or higher.

Activity 21 FBLA National Organization and Programs
Participate in the National Fall Leadership Conference or the Institute for Leaders.

Activity 22 FBLA National Organization and Programs
Submit an application for the FBLA Distinguished Business Leader Scholarship.

Activity 23 FBLA National Organization and Programs/Recruitment
Plan an activity for your local chapter in which you participate in a joint project or social event with an FBLA-Middle Level or a PBL chapter.

Activity 24 FBLA National Organization and Programs/Recruitment
Visit at least one school that does not have an active FBLA chapter or FBLA-Middle Level chapter. Meet with school officials to encourage them to charter or reactivate a chapter.

Activity 25 Communications
Invite a school administrator to a chapter meeting, a state meeting, or a state- or national-sponsored FBLA conference.

Activity 26 Communications/Marketing
Make a personal visit to an elected official. Research and discuss Perkins Funding. Take a photo with the official.