DIXIE WINNERS AT FBLA CONFERENCE—At the Future Business Leaders of America District II Leadership Conference held on Saturday, February 1, at the Westwood High School in Blythewood, SC, Dixie High School students were the recipients of numerous district awards. 

 The following awards were received.  In Business Calculations – 1^st Savannah Spearin, 2^nd Austin Ware, 4^th Yolanda Mullins; Business Math – 1^st Derek Graber, 2^nd Marissa Hines, 3^rd Sara Beth Sears; Introduction to Business Communications – 1^st Ashley Nickles, 2^nd Whitney Poore, 3^rd Leigha Snipes; Business Communications – 5^th Andrea Poore; Business Presentation – 3^rd - Team of Eric Cheek, Thomas Dent and Will Hopkins; Business Procedures – 3^rd Austin Spencer; Health Care Administration – 5^th Abigail Nelson; Introduction to Business – 3^rd Samantha Ferguson, 5^th Kerri Clamp; Introduction to Information Technology – Emma Iannone; Person Finance – 1^st Janie Sullivan; Sports & Entertainment Management - 2^nd - Team of Keaton Flowers, Trent Willey and Fenn Williamson; Public Speaking 1 – 2^nd Haleigh Phillips; Public Speaking 2 – 4^th Jacob Eller; Desktop Publishing – 3^rd Team of Chelsea Lloyd and Kensley Carwile; Word Processing – 3^rd Alyssa Ashley, 4^th Lauren Branyon.

 All of these FBLA members are eligible to represent Abbeville County in the State Competitions to be held in Charleston in March.  FBLA-PBL is the largest business career student organization in the world. The high school division has over 215,000 members.  Dixie FBLA advisors are Beverly Spivey and Bob Devore.

 Photo ID:  FBLA CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS.

Front Row: Ashley Nickles, Kerri Clamp, Sara Beth Sears, Jenea Bowen, McKayla Stevenson, Chelsea Lloyd

2^nd Row: Andrea Poore, Lauren Branyon, Emma Iannone, Haleigh Phillips, Leigha Snipes, Alyssa Ashley, Abigail Nelson, Janie Sullivan, Kensley Carwile, Yolanda Mullins, Brooke Campbell, Savanna Spearin, Jacob Eller

Back Row: Luci Devore, Marissa Hines, Whitney Poore, Austin Spencer, Derek Graber, Austin Ware, Will Hopkins, Thomas Dent, Trent Willey, Keaton Flowers, Eric Cheek, Samantha Ferguson, Kollby Taylor, Fenn Williamson

Not Pictured:  Anne Marie Ferguson