Take a look at what the chapters in NORTH DAKOTA are doing this month!

Des Lacs-Burlington:

Drake-Anamoose:

We held many coffee shops. We worked on the German Supper on making dough on 1 week before. The day of the German Supper we had workers working different shifts and different jobs. Our workers worked hard during the rushes that came every now and then. It all started with our advisors old friend. She came in and we held a mini meeting during school to talk about certain dates we selected dates that matched almost everybody’s schedule. We worked hard on the Sunday a week before the actual Supper on the 19. We made knoephela and strudel. We held the supper on the 26th. We sold 155 meals in 1.5 hours. We served at the Hometown Tavern. We made 2,400 dollars. We worked hard and had a great time.

High School:

This month the Drake-Anamoose High School FBLA Chapter has been busy in the coffee shop and concession stands at volleyball games. They also attended the Fall Leadership Conference in Bismarck. They listened to the keynote speaker Sunday evening and participated in junk night. One middle school team won third place at junk night. The following Monday morning they participated in workshops held by the keynote speaker and the state officers. In the workshops they worked on various things such as networking, public speaking, parliamentary procedure, and many topics regarding FBLA. They then listened to the closing session from the keynote speaker. On October 16th, selected FBLA members went to the MSU Tech Day; Jade Uhlich, Mason Schuh, and Zack Volson placed. In the weeks following Mason Schuh our chapter secretary received State Member of the Month for Region II. Not only did they do all of those fun activities this month but they also had a German Supper Night at the Tavern in Harvey. There they sold out within a hour and a half, selling over 150 meals. All meals sold, caused this chapter to gain over $2,000. To end this month off they decided to have an FBLA Spirit Day on October 30th! Members dressed in their FBLA chapter shirts!

Edgeley:

We have done many things including going to fall leadership, talking about fundraisers like wreath sales, spook-o-grams, and the fall festival. We have also had an officer meeting and a full club member meeting. Our officers buddied up with new members to help teach them about FBLA connect and help get them started on BAAs. Plans are in the making for an outing.

Glen Ullin:

This month has been a busy and productive one for our FBLA chapter! We kicked things off by attending the Fall Leadership Conference, where we participated in engaging activities, networked with other members, and met our new state officers. Our successful Butter Braid fundraiser brought in over $1500, which will help support our chapter activities. We also took charge of our school’s quarter celebration, which was run by our Vice President and Secretary, who collaborated with members to plan all the details. Finally, our officers met to strategize and finalize our plan of work for the remainder of October and November.

Grand Forks Central:

The month of October really kicked off our FBLA chapter for the 2024-2025 year. We attended the Fall Leadership Conference with 10 students that have potential to be great leaders for our chapter and our school.
Following the conference, our elected chapter president organized two meetings. One to help students determine state competition events and the other to interview members for a chapter officer position. We have officially selected our officer crew and will be meeting as an officer team on November 7th to help plan out the rest of the school year.

Hatton:

Our chapter has been working on our Project Awareness, creating a presentation for the elementary students, getting posters up around town, securing a speaker, and getting ready for our local Alzheimer’s Walk. We also worked on American Enterprise Project and ordered our materials to do an activity with the elementary students.

We also have been working on our Community Service Project which is going to the local Long Term Care Facility and talking to the residents what they are interested in.

Some other things: we worked on first steps for the Business Financial Plan Ag and car loans, the Annual Business Report and scrapbook, BAA’s in which several have completed them already.

We also had a Spirit Day in October.

Hazen:

We had our monthly chapter meeting on the 10, we had a pizza and pumpkin carving party combined with FCCLA and FFA on the 12, and on the 15 we went to the Haunted Fort with FCCLA and FFA as well.

Larimore:

October has been an extremely busy month for our FBLA chapter. We had many fall activities such as pumpkin painting, Halloween BINGO, and pumpkin weight guessing. Our chapter also partnered with the Larimore Food Pantry as well as working Movie Concessions at the Avalon. We sold ice cream for breast cancer awareness, and we donated the funds to the Altru Cancer Center. Our middle-level members completed a project for the Larimore Community Endowment.

Mandan:

During the month of October, we attended FLC at the Bismarck Hotel bringing a total of 14 members. We also held a chapter meeting to discuss state events, fundraising, and American Enterprise Day. We visited Lewis and Clark Elementary School to share a lesson about American Enterprise to inform them about an activity we will hold on November 15th. We also participated in our schools canned food drive called Trick-or-Treat for Canned Goods.

May-Port CG:

This month May-Port CG FBLA has been quite active. We kicked off the month with our pajama themed October meeting. The day after the meeting we had our monthly FBLA professional dress day. May-Port CG focused heavily this month on working on VBC, Life smarts and SMG. We were able to fill every team we could for SMG. We also had our annual officer pieing, with the sophomores pieing us. Along with that we had one of our bigger fundraisers. The MPCG haunted house, we were able to raise $1,000 and got the whole chapter involved. We also had major strides in our Partnership with a Business project and Community Service project. Partnership ran a toy drive and dates have been set for the Community Service project.

Minot:

During October, at our first meeting of the month, we had a former FBLA-PBL member come to our monthly meeting and talk to us about all things FBLA, her experiences at both levels and then had a question and answer time for the members. At our second meeting of the month, we had a former member come and talk to us about our major fundraiser for the year, and that she will coordinate it for us, and also put together a sub-committee to work on the fundraiser.

Nedrose:

The month of October began with Nedrose FBLA members attending the Fall Leadership Conference held in Bismarck. We had 5 high school members and 2 middle school members attend. Members were excited to bring back several ideas for fundraising, service projects, recruitment and activities to get more students involved in FBLA.
We are excited to begin a middle level chapter this year. Currently we have 12 paid members in the high school and 12 paid members in the middle school.
October has been full of selling World’s Finest Chocolate and serving concessions as chapter fundraisers. We have FBLA members volunteering once a week to operate our Cardinal Cart as well.
On Sunday, October 27 we held a chapter work day where members worked on BAAs and LEAD awards. They also spent time reviewing competitive events, as well student challenge activities such as LifeSmarts, Stock Market Game, and Virtual Business Challenges.
We ended the month with a chapter spirit day on Wednesday, October 30 and continue to update our program of work and complete Champion Chapter activities.

Ray:

Though unfortunate things have had happened to the community of Ray due to the fires, our FBLA Chapter was able to pull through and give back to our community. After the fires we did a 50/50 raffle and raised around $1,200 and from doing
Homecoming football concessions which raised around $600. In total we raised $1,800 for people who were affected by the fire. Before for this we had Pink Out Night where we sold 50/50 tickets as well as did a chuck-a-duck for kids. Both of these together raised $1,000 for breast cancer awareness. We also had few more people complete their BAAs making us closer to being ready for State.

Red River:

It was a busy September Month for RRHS FBLA! We attended the Fall Leadership Conference (FLC) in Bismarck!!! We brought 13 members to the event! We have six teams competing in the ND Stock Market Game. We have decided to work with the Grand Forks Humane Society for our community service project and have hosted two meetings (one officer and one chapter meeting).

Stanley:

Our team leading the American Heart Association project met with Mary R. on Friday from approximately 3:15 to 4:00 PM on October 4, where she provided valuable insights about the association and helped with the inflatable CPR dummies. On October 11, our AHA team organized a CPR event prior to the final home football game. In collaboration with the AHA and Stanley Ambulance, community members were offered hands-only CPR training from 6 to 7 PM. We had 31 participants who were officially trained in hands-only CPR, and who committed to take action during a cardiac arrest rather than remain a bystander. Additionally, our members sold 50/50 tickets, raising $300 for the AHA. This was a major project for our chapter and we will continue teaching others hands-only CPR this year. Twenty-six members participated in the Fall Leadership Conference held on October 6 and 7, marking the first FBLA conference for many attendees, all of whom had a great time. On October 8, our officers met before school to assess the program of work and organize our FBLA Spirit Week. To fundraise for conference travel, we sold Poppin’ Popcorn this month which raised over $2,000 for our chapter.
Stanley FBLA celebrates a Spirit Week in October during the short school week of school. The first day, Monday October 14, FBLA members showed their spirit by wearing FBLA apparel or blue and yellow. On Monday morning, we captured a group photo with 44 out of our 53 members present. That evening, we hosted a BAA work night from 5:00 to 7:30 PM. 25 percent of our members have completed one level of the BAAs so far this year. On Tuesday, members sported their pajamas for a cereal meeting at 8:00 AM, featuring a guest speaker, the North Dakota Region II Vice President from Ray. Gretchen Hickel spoke about the responsibilities of being a State Officer. Wednesday was dedicated to wearing college gear while our seniors applied to colleges. Six members traveled to Minot State this day to compete at Tech Day. We took home two first place awards.

Tioga:

During the month of October our chapter was staying busy. We attended the Fall Leadership Conference in Bismarck with nine of our officers in attendance! We also finalized our member T-shirts at our first officer meeting earlier in the month. Another order of business that we finalized during this Officer meeting was our first of many fundraisers for the year, a pizza sale! Lastly, we secured a guest speaker for our whole chapter meeting/work day that is set for the first week in November.

Wishek:

In the month of October, Wishek FBLA participated in many activities. At the beginning of the month, we held a membership meeting to talk about BAA’s and LEAD’s, along with talking about our community service project in partnership with the AHA. We also gained seven new members at that meeting. Later in the month, we held an FBLA swag day where members wore FBLA shirts to school. Five of our members also helped serve food at our community wildlife club’s buffalo supper earlier in the month.

Our officers also met to discuss and update our POW, and plan a fall/winter outing for our members. We are excited to see what the next few months will bring.

Thank you to all of the Chapters who submitted their news!