Five Greene County High School students qualified for the national contest with the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).

Hailey Carman and Emma and Ella Shipley did food innovations, Maggie Mikkelsen chose sustainability and Brooke Williams did Say Yes to FCS Education. Williams tells Raccoon Valley Radio her project included observing two Food and Consumer Science classrooms and interviewing two FCS teachers, and then creating and executing a lesson plan based on the FCS standards. She talks about why she wanted to do this category.

“I’ve always been interested in FCS classes. In middle school that was my favorite class. I just loved taking FCS classes, I love everything about FCS, but also interested in hearing people talk about the careers they want to go into, I’ve always had an interest in that.”    

Carman describes her initial reaction when she found out that she and the Shipley twins qualified for nationals.

“Well on the day that we got awards, we had to leave early because I had jazz choir that day. And so Ella (Shipley) called me and the first thing she said was, ‘We got silver,’ and I was like, ‘Are you sure about that because I thought we had done pretty well.’ But it turns out she was kidding and we did gold and we did make it to nationals. So I was really excited and I started yelling on the jazz choir bus to everybody and I was very happy.”   

Carman and the Shipleys baked different kinds of cookies that had to have under ten grams of sugar and Mikkelsen’s project was educating the high school about recycling. The national FCCLA contest will take place July 2-6 in Denver, Colorado.