McCann Students Going to Leadership Forum in Reno

- March 17, 2008

NORTH ADAMS - Top students from McCann Technical School's office technology and information technology programs will be attending the Business Professionals of America 2008 National Leadership Conference, "Find Your Fit," in Reno, Nev., from May 7 through 11.

McCann chapter members Christine Leal, Kate Reardon, Hannah Francoeur, Timothy Lescarbeau, Hannah Martin, Samantha Ritcher, Taylor Wadsworth, Kelsey Lemaire, and Jordan McShane will join more than 6,000 other conference delegates from across the nation to participate in national-level business skill competitions, workshops, general sessions, and the national officer candidate campaigns and elections. They'll also tour sites in western central Nevada.

McCann BPA members competed against students from 14 schools at the State Leadership Conference in Framingham on March 8 through 10 to qualify for this trip. 

Members who placed in individual competitions:

Christine Leal — second in spreadsheet applications and analysis, third in advanced interview skills, third in administrative concepts open

Kate Reardon — third in advanced word processing skills

Hannah Martin — third in fundamental word processing skills

Tim Lescarbeau — fifth in financial math open

Taylor Wadsworth — fourth in fundamentals of XHTML
 
Kelsey Lemaire — fourth in interview skills

Jordan McShane — fifth in interview skills.

The following students also placed in team competitions:

Samantha Ritcher, Martin, Leal and Reardon — first in administrative support team; Reardon and Leal — first in economic research project team; Lescarbeau and Wadsworth — third in Web site design team; Hannah Francoeur and Lemaire — second in global marketing.