What are competitions?
FBLA-PBL holds yearly competitions between the best and brightest FBLA chapters have to offer. The FBLA National Awards Program recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career related areas. These areas include technology and speaking oriented contests such as: Computer Concepts, Information Processing, Public Speaking, and Website Development.
The competitions start at the sectional or district level, some at state, where chapters may submit people to compete in the various competitions, and winners progress to the state, then national level. At the competitions there are many workshops that help the high school students develop leadership and business related skills and formalities.
The top ten competitors in each national-level event are featured on stage at the Awards of Excellence Program at the National Leadership Conference where they receive trophies and/or certificates. Some events are sponsored, adding a cash or scholarship award to the top competitors for that event.
List of Competitions
The following is a list of FBLA official competitions and events:
Chapter Events
- American Enterprise
- Businessperson of the Year
- Community Service Project
- Largest Local Chapter Membership
- Local Chapter Annual Business Report
- Outstanding Local Advisor Award
- Partnership with Business Project
Team Events
- Business Ethics
- Business Financial Plan
- Desktop Publishing
- Emerging Business Issues
- Entrepreneurship
- Global Business
- Management Decision Making
- Network Design
- Parliamentary Procedure
Individual or Team Events
- Accounting I
- Accounting II
- Banking & Financial Systems
- Basic Decision Making (Grades 5-9)
- Business Calculations
- Business Communication
- Business Law
- Business Math (Grades 9-10)
- Business Plan (1-3 members)
- Business Presentation (1-3 members)
- Business Procedures
- Computer Applications
- Cyber Security
- Database Design & Application
- Digital Video Production
- E-Business (1-3 members)
- Economics
- Electronic Career Portfolio
- Entrepreneurship – team
- FBLA Principles & Procedures
- Impromptu Speaking
- Internet Application Programming
- Introduction to Business (Grades 9-10)
- Introduction to Business Communication (Grades 9-10)
- Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure (Grades 9-10)
- Introduction to Technology Concepts (Grades 9-10)
- Introduction to Word Processing (Grades 9-10)
- Job Interview
- Future Business Leader
- Marketing
- Networking Concepts
- Parliamentary Procedure Team (4-5 members)
- Public Speaking I (Grades 9-10)
- Public Speaking II
- Spreadsheet Applications
- Technology Concepts
- Visual Basic Programming
- Website Development (1-3 members)
- Who’s Who in FBLA
- Word Processing I (Grades 9-10)
- Word Processing II