  {"id":6555,"date":"2026-03-02T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:16:22","slug":"jones-college-fbla-students-head-to-national-competition-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-fbla-students-head-to-national-competition-3\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心直播 FBLA students head to national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE- Twelve of the thirteen 糖心直播 students that competed in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State competition in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, came home winners.&nbsp; They all placed first or second in their competitive events, qualifying them for national competition in June, in Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp;During the three-day conference, each student competed in two business-related events. The events ranged from Fundamentals of Accounting and Economics to Foundations of Technology and Public Speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwelve of the students will be going to the three-day national conference and competition in Las Vegas,\u201d said 糖心直播\u2019s&nbsp;FBLA&nbsp;Advisor, David Ray.&nbsp;\u201cThese students worked very hard and we are excited to see what they&nbsp;can do at the national level in three months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma Cash of Soso placed first in Foundations of Accounting. Elisa Cook of Meridian earned second place honors in Business Law, third place in Foundations of Marketing, and partnered with Aiden Chisolm of Mize to\u00a0place first in the State of Chapter event,\u00a0which showcases Jones FBLA clubs\u2019 accomplishments for the year.\u00a0Aiden also placed second in Emerging Business Issues and third in Job Interview. Pachuta\u2019s Jalen Dixon placed first in Foundations of Finance and James Ellis of Hattiesburg placed second in Foundations of Digital Design. Taking first place in CyberSecurity and Foundations of Technology was Tanner Guthrie of Raleigh. Additionally, Jalyn Hair of Petal took first place in Foundations of Communications. Also competing in Communications was Maggie Smith of Laurel who took second place. Waynesboro\u2019s Bushown Lewis placed first in Customer Service and fourth in Public Speaking. Placing first and second in Foundations of Computer Science respectively were Connor Perkins of Petal and Tanika Norsworthy of Waynesboro. Emily Ponce of Morton received first place in Public Speaking and Retail Management. Rounding out the awards from 糖心直播 students was Nyaisha Rhymes of Monticello who placed fourth in Foundations of Management.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FBLA-photo-submitted-3-26-1024x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FBLA-photo-submitted-3-26-1024x598.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FBLA-photo-submitted-3-26-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FBLA-photo-submitted-3-26-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FBLA-photo-submitted-3-26-1536x898.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FBLA-photo-submitted-3-26.jpg 1795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">糖心直播\u2019s\u00a0FBLA\u00a0club members are headed to the national competition after winning 15 categories in the state competition.\u00a0 Pictured in the front row, left to right are David Ray (adviser), Bushown Lewis-Waynesboro, Connor Perkins-Petal, Emily Ponce-Morton, Maggie Smith-Laurel, Jalyn Hair-Pachuta, and Emma Cash-Soso. Pictured in the second row: James Ellis-Hattiesburg, Tanika Norsworthy-Waynesboro, Aiden Chisolm-Mize, Nyaisha Rhymes-Monticello, Elisa Cook-Meridian, Tanner Guthrie-Raleigh, and Jennifer Powell (adviser).\u00a0Not pictured is Jalyn Dixon-Petal.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE- Twelve of the thirteen 糖心直播 students that competed in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State competition in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, came home winners.&nbsp; They all placed first or second in their competitive events, qualifying them for national competition in June, in Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp;During the three-day conference, each student competed in two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-fbla-students-head-to-national-competition-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;糖心直播 FBLA students head to national competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6557,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}