GCHS Students Place At FCCLA Fall Cluster Meeting  

Garden City, KS(westernkansasnews.com) Members from Garden City High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Chapter traveled to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to attend the National Cluster meeting held November 16-19.   The students competed in a number of events during the conference.

Students that received placed at the competition were: Raylyn Swank, senior, placed first in the occupational Fashion Sketch skill event. Kathryn Chandler, junior, placed first in the occupational Impromptu Speaking skill event. Ryan Glaze, junior, placed second in the occupational Culinary Chicken Fabrication event. Laura Ibarra, senior, placed 7th Culinary Knife Skills in the occupational category. Rosa Solorzano, senior, placed 6th in the Culinary Knife Skills in the occupational category. Itzel Arreola, senior, placed second in the Technology in Teaching event. Cameron Downe, junior, placed 8th in Culinary Knife Skills in the occupational category.

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. Everyone is part of a family, and FCCLA is the only national Career and Technical Student Organization with the family as its central focus. Since 1945, FCCLA members have been making a difference in their families, careers, and communities by addressing important personal, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education.

Today over 164,000 members in more than 5,300 chapters are active in a network of associations in 49 states, in addition to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Chapter projects focus on a variety of youth concerns, including teen pregnancy, parenting, family relationships, substance abuse, peer pressure, environment, nutrition and fitness, teen violence, and career exploration. Involvement in FCCLA offers members the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills for life — planning, goal setting, problem solving, decision making, and interpersonal communication — necessary in the home and workplace.

If you have any questions about FCCLA, please contact any of the three GCHS FCCLA advisors: Robyn Hilt rhilt@gckschools.com, Elisabeth Maldonado emaldonado3@gckschools.com, or Jenette Turpin jturpin@gckschools.com.