FBLA Chapter Check-In | September 2026

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

Carrington:

We started the month of September with our interest meeting! At this meeting, we invited all students in grades 8-12 to attend and learn about FBLA and our chapter. We did an ice breaker at the beginning of the meeting where upperclassmen had to pair up with underclassmen. They had to ask each other four questions and then Mrs. Skytland called on a few groups to share what they learned about their partner. The officers went over events, fundraisers, and conferences and encouraged interested students to pay their dues! Later that month, we held an officer meeting to plan for our first official all-member meeting. Our officers discussed ideas to increase recruitment and went over FLC plans. At the all-member meeting, Drew Matt, our president, shared upcoming t-shirt and professional dates, handed out the candy sales sign up sheet, and announced our members of the month – Ewan Aberle and Jaxton Peltier! We also had guest speaker, Alicia Bahm, from Foster County Public Health, talk about Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the event Bras for a Cause! Our chapter teamed up with Public Health and went around to community businesses asking if they would like to display a breast cancer materials. This was a great way for our members to get involved in the community!

Central Valley:

Our CV FBLA chapter is off to an exciting start this year! We elected Grace Ellingson as President, Mallory Kloster as Vice President, and Brooklyn Hanekamp as Secretary and Communications Officer. We have already held two meetings and are focused on growing membership, building school spirit, and increasing participation in FBLA state and national programs.

Our chapter has started several new initiatives, including a quarterly community service project to clean litter in our local towns, a membership recruitment and retention plan, and a Member of the Month program featured on our CV FBLA Instagram. We also created a chapter budget, developed a target list of five potential sponsors, and designed and ordered chapter T-shirts featuring a design by Grace Ellingson.

To keep members involved and informed, Grace created monthly activity calendars for each member. We also invited Paul Coppin to speak at our October meeting, giving members an opportunity to learn from a community leader.

We are excited to continue growing our chapter, strengthening our community involvement, and encouraging members to take advantage of state and national FBLA opportunities, competitions, leadership programs, and activities. Our chapter is building strong momentum, and we look forward to an exciting year ahead!

Des Lacs-Burlington:

During the month of September our chapter held several chapter meetings. In the first meeting we discussed the basic structure and schedule of our FBLA year. We also talked about the fundraising plans we have leading up to state, as it is a bit more expensive per individual to go to the state conference this year. Our first and annual fundraiser is selling football booklets, this has been super easy and effective in years prior when making money. We also each signed and turned in our code of conduct and payed the dues for the year. In our second meeting of the year we elected the new officers for our chapter, then went into detail about what each officer was responsible of for the year.

Drake-Anamoose:

On September 2nd, our chapter hosted a blood drive in partnership with Vitalant, and students and community members could donate blood. This blood drive was a huge success, with one new first-time donor, Mason Schuh, and enough blood to save 60 patients’ lives!

On the 15th, we held our monthly chapter meeting. Supper was served prior to the meeting. During the meeting, FBLA State Parliamentarian, Joy Jiang swore the new officers into their office positions. After the installation, the officers talked about the Fall Leadership Conference (FLC), where members participate in leadership training and strengthening our chapter. Bianca Burkle was awarded member of the month for August. Our co-adviser, Zack Volson also led a leadership activity for the members.

Several chapter members attended the Walk to End Alzheimer’s on September 27, in Minot at Oak Park. We participated in the flower ceremony celebration and participated in the walk.

On September 28th, four students went to Bismarck to attend a Vitalant Blood Drive Training. Students learned about blood donation, blood banking, how to run a successful blood drive, heard from blood recipients, and toured the Vitalant facility.

Our main chapter activity is running our coffee shop. We are open Monday and Friday mornings before school and on Wednesdays after lunch. We celebrated national coffee day and were open on Tuesday, September 29, where the paid members were able to get $2 off their coffee! It was a huge success!

(Bianca Burkle: Member of the Month)

Glen Ullin:

Our chapter has already started completing our BAA’s this month. We have our officers working hard on plans for the year including AHA fundraising. We had one of our dress to impress days this month as well as completed our first fundraiser selling butterbraids. We had our first meeting of our members and familiarized ourselves with FBLA connect and the forms that we need to complete. We have an active group and we are looking forward to a successful year.

Grand Forks Red River:

It has been a busy month for RRHS FBLA!!! We started off the season with our first leadership council meeting to define our mission and vision statements for the year. We hosted our traditional root beer float social for new members and prospective members, and had an amazing turnout!!! Over 40 students attended!!! We discussed and amended our Program of Work to set the tone for the season. Two of our members, Arienne Caoili and Sophia Gemelli, visited South Middle School and discussed the importance of establishing a middle school chapter with selected students. Our chapter worked on Summer Starter items and earned completion status!!! We also volunteered with the Alzheimer’s Association at their annual Walk to End Alzheimer event!!! We tried our best to stay dry in the rain!!! We recruited 14 members to attend the upcoming Fall Leadership Conference (FLC) in Bismarck. Our chapter also started fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Association by selling lollipops and raised $39.00 on our first day. We are absolutely fired up for this year’s FBLA season!!!

 

Hatton/Northwood FBLA:

We had our first membership meeting, and we had about 10 new members; they actually joined, and we are still waiting on a few students to see if they are joining. We played Blooket about FBLA, and the winner received a prize. We pulled names out of a hat and gave members shirts that were left over from last year. We created a T-shirt design, and we are in the process of getting them made and expect to have them all done by the end of October and distributed to all members. We reviewed our Program of Work and made changes to reflect the year so far. We submitted the Summer Starter a week and a half before we needed to have it submitted. Our Community Service Project chair people are working on getting it started, and they are doing something once a week for the month of October. Secured speakers, creating power points, order items for our project. We are doing event planning and working with the seniors to do this project, and all the proceeds will be going to a local teacher who is battling cancer. We had an officer meeting to discuss the Fall Leadership Conference, what time we are leaving and what is expected of them at the convention. We are working on getting another committee for another Community Service Project. We lined up our guest speaker who will be coming and talking to our members during our October meeting. We signed up 9 members who will be going to the Fall Leadership Conference. We paid the majority of our members’ dues to Nationals. We have about 6 member that have started their BAAs. We registered for 16 Stock Market Teams. We have scheduled our business tour for the middle of November.

Hazen:

During September, we had our first full chapter meeting—inviting new students to come and join if they are interested in FBLA. We discussed our chapter shirts and different activities we will participate in throughout the year.

Lakota:

This month, our chapter collaborated with our FFA to reconstruct the picnic tables at our football field. It was a project that helped us learn teamwork and was something nice for us to do for our school and community. During our homecoming week, we also collaborated with our Student Council to award prizes to the best-dressed individuals of the week. This allowed us to show appreciation to those who put time and effort into dressing up.

Larimore:

A Power Point presentation was shown to the LHS student body during Homeroom. An additional presentation was shown to all 7th graders encouraging them to join FBLA.

The officers worked together to submit the requirements for the first section of the Champion Chapter Challenge. Accumulating 1500 of 1800 points.

Chapter Officers met to brainstorm plans for the 2026-2027 school year.

An initial meeting was held with all students interested in FBLA, current members, new members, and interested students.

Linton:

This month the Linton FBLA chapter held our first recruitment meeting on September 1 with the theme of “Sweeten Your Future” where Crumbl cookies were served. The chapter also had an additional lunch meeting where members began the holiday fundraiser. They also completed Champion Chapter activities, planned a business tour, and created a committee for Community Service Project and American Enterprise Day. The officers also held a meeting discussing the upcoming Fall Conference, which they will be attending in the first week of October.

Mandan:

 

May-Port CG:

The May-Port CG FBLA chapter has been both active and busy this month. To begin with, we held a meeting for all the students who wanted to join FBLA. At this meeting we discussed what FBLA is, how the organization functions, and the various opportunities and advantages available to members. We made it clear that FBLA can help students develop their leadership abilities, meet new people, gain a better understanding of the business world, and take part in a range of activities and competitions over the course of the year.

Our officers also had a meeting in which they discussed their plans and goals for the coming months. One of the suggestions we considered was making sweatshirts for all members who have paid their membership dues. We believe that the sweatshirts would be an excellent means of showing school spirit and of representing our FBLA chapter at school, at competitions, at conferences and at other events.

The officer team has at the same time been preparing locker magnets for all our paid members. The magnets are a enjoyable way for members to indicate that they are taking part in FBLA and also help to promote our chapter around the school. We hope that with more FBLA items visible around the school other students will become aware of the organisation and maybe decide to join in the future.

A major area which we have been concentrating on is community service. We have been talking over and planning out various community service projects that our members can take part in during the school year. Our aim is to discover methods by which we can give something back to both our school and the communities around us while at the same time providing our members with opportunities to work together and make a positive difference.

Fundraising has also been a major subject with our chapter this month. Our officers and members have been working on coming up with new and better fundraising ideas. We hope to plan fundraisers which are enjoyable, a success, and something that both our school and the community will be willing to back. The money gained from these events can help our chapter cover the costs of activities, conferences, competitions, and other FBLA opportunities all during the year.

In summary, the May-Port CG FBLA chapter has begun in a productive way and we are looking forward to the future. The members and the officers have been working together in order to make this a successful year, and we are looking forward to carrying on with the growth of our chapter, getting more students involved, serving our community, and setting up a number of new opportunities and experiences for all of our FBLA members.

Minot:

In the month of September, our chapter set more foot holdings to help us launch up our year. Our goal this month was to engage people early on and to increase the number of active members in our chapter.

We first held final elections for our final officer positions. These include both a fundraising chair and a community service chair, as well as class representatives for each grade. Executive members of our chapter have been in touch with these new officers to further explain the roles they will carry out throughout the year.

This month we also held our first community volunteer outreach. Members of our chapter showed up to help the Fall Festival at the Minot Farmers Market. Throughout the day, we worked to help keep festivities running smoothly behind the scenes. Students reset games and held friendly interactions with fellow members of the community.

At the end of the month, we invited a guest speaker to talk with our chapter. Ashley Bonen, from Roosevelt Park Zoo, shared her job experience. She explain how she has climbed up different position rankings in her 7 years of service in the program. The process of maintaining a zoo to meet ethical standards was also touched on. Ashley explained the responsibility all members of the zoo have to keep both the animals and people safe. On a final note, Ashley also shared with us many volunteer opportunities for young people who want to be more involved in their community.

Overall, our chapter’s September was a busy-packed adventure! Our officers are thrilled to have such a great start to the year.

Minot North:

During September, our FBLA chapter participated in many activities. Members helped work consessions at school events and helped with the officer elections. We also held a Little Caesars fundraiser to raise money for our FBLA chapter. These activites helped us work together, support our school, and raise money for future FBLA events and activities.

Mott-Regent:

Chapter Meetings

Nedrose:

Nedrose FBLA kicked off September by hosting an interest meeting for students in Grades 7-12. So far we have 14 paid HS members, and 10 paid MS members. Nine of these paid members are new!

We also hosted an officer meeting where we planned out activities for Champion Chapter – Summer Starter and Shaping Success. Summer Starter was submitted; completing all activities. We are currently selling World’s Finest Chocolate and have signed up to serve concessions throughout the year.

Thirteen of our members are signed up to attend FLC and we are excited for events we have planned in October.

Stanley:

September was a month of growth, leadership, and service for our FBLA chapter. We welcomed several new members to the organization and held two chapter meetings to engage members and discuss upcoming activities. Interest in leadership development continues to grow, as our chapter registered for the Fall Leadership Conference with eight more members attending than last year.

Our members remained active in fundraising efforts by selling lemonade during the Homecoming football game and continuing to stock and manage the high school snack vending machine. These projects help support chapter activities and provide valuable business experience for members.

We were honored to host Stanley FBLA alumnus Taylor Hanson, a BSA and Fraud Specialist at Cornerstone Bank, who shared career insights and professional experiences with our members.

One of the chapter’s most exciting accomplishments this month was partnering with Teens Teach Tech. At the end of September, members facilitated their first technology education workshop for residents at the Stanley assisted living facility, marking the beginning of a new community outreach initiative.

Additionally, both the Stanley Middle School and High School FBLA chapters earned the maximum points possible in the Summer Start Challenge, demonstrating a strong start to the new school year.

Behind the scenes, officers and advisors continued planning chapter activities, competitions, and service projects to ensure a successful and well-organized year ahead. Overall, September set a positive tone for growth, leadership development, community engagement, and future success.

 

 

 

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