National Leadership Conference Orientation Meeting Information
Sunday, April 23, 2023 — 7:00 pm
Zoom Meeting Recording
Zoom Meeting PowerPoint
Travel Documents PDF (overview, jersey size, price calculations)
National FBLA Blue Panda (advisers must logon using National FBLA membership system credentials for registration and event placement)
Pennsylvania FBLA Blue Panda (advisers must logon with same credentials used to register students for the SLC, RLC, and SLW for lodging and travel items)
FBLA High School Guidelines
FBLA High School Rating Sheets
FBLA Middle School Guidelines
FBLA Middle School Rating Sheets
Registration Fees:
registration opens March 1, 2023
$195 FBLA Member
$100 Adviser/Chaperone
Lodging Fees:
$259 per room + 16.9% Atlanta hotel tax + $5 City of Atlanta fee = $308 per room per night (one bed or two beds).
Venue:
All conference programming will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center and the Omni Atlanta. Shuttle service will be provided to/from other official conference hotels to the Georgia World Congress Center.
National FBLA Housing Policy
Each year FBLA’s National Center contracts with multiple hotels to provide housing for students, advisers, and chaperones who attend the National Leadership Conference (NLC). The housing or hotel room blocks are negotiated to provide safe and appropriate accommodations at the best possible price. Factors for hotel selection include proximity to the conference, type of sleeping rooms appropriate for students, access to a variety of food options, history of safely housing student groups, and access to meeting facilities. Official FBLA hotels are typically the location for state-specific activities. In addition, official FBLA hotels are serviced by the NLC ground transportation network of complimentary shuttle buses. Securing these hotels requires that FBLA guarantee a level of usage by attendees and includes a financial liability for the organization.
Housing Requirement
FBLA members, advisers, and parents/guardians/chaperones/guests are required to stay in a hotel that is part of the FBLA housing block of hotels. FBLA requires full conference registration from student members, advisers, and school approved chaperones. Student members who are not staying in an official FBLA hotel will not be considered full conference registrants and therefore not permitted to compete. The availability of a preferred room type will not provide an exemption from this policy.
Eligibility for Housing
Only registered conference attendees are eligible to take advantage of the FBLA negotiated conference room rates within the FBLA housing block. To accommodate FBLA members and for the safety of all attendees, every guest staying within the FBLA conference block must be registered for the conference.
Housing blocks will be audited against the official registration roster to ensure that attendees comply with the policy.
Local Attendees and Extenuating Circumstances
Students and advisers residing within a 60-mile radius of the conference venue may stay at home and commute to the conference.
If there are extenuating circumstances, a written request for a waiver may be submitted through the state adviser to the FBLA Conference Registrar.