A Greene County High School senior will be traveling to Cedar Rapids next week to compete in a business-oriented competition.

Payton Wadsworth is part of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Club at the high school and will be at the State Leadership Conference, where she will be competing in Accounting I. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio that FBLA is focused on improving skills on how to run a business, work for a business, and interact with other businesses in general. Wadsworth explains that she started with FBLA last year when she was taking an accounting class.

“And my teacher, Mrs. (Teresa) Bentz was kind of just, ‘Do you want to join this club? I’m thinking of bringing it to our school? And it’s for like people who like business, who want to go into business, who want to be entrepreneurs and things like that.’ And I was like, ‘Sure.’ So I joined because I’m the type of person who if I want to swim I just throw myself into the deep end, if that makes any sense? I just joined in and I threw myself in there. That was our first year doing it. And so, it’s very slow. So it’s only been around the school for two years.”       

Wadsworth placed first in Spreadsheet Applications and Entrepreneurship and third in Personal Finance. She says for the Accounting I contest, it is a timed test that the students take to see how much knowledge everyone has on the subject. The state conference is March 30th-April 1st.