Sam Wuebbles, of Carlyle High School.    The Southwestern Area Future Business Leaders of America held its Leaders of America conference Saturday, Jan. 16, at Carlyle Junior High School, in a virtual format this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Southwestern Area FBLA officers are: Halle Smith, South Central High School (Farina), president; Isaiah Hill, O'Fallon Township High School, vice president; Wendy Washington, Belleville East High School, secretary; Megan You, O'Fallon Township High School, treasurer.
    FBLA advisers LuAlice Kampwerth of Carlyle High School, Lynn Riehm of South Central, and Julie Siebers of Belleville East, directed the virtual conference.
    The top finishers, by contest, were as follows:
Accounting 1
    First place - Raniya Shannon, O'Fallon; second - Zada Reynolds, South Central; third - Landon Snyder, Carlyle High School.
Advertising
    First place - Dylan Kirchoff, O'Fallon; second - Sam Wuebbles, Carlyle.
Broadcast Journalism
    First place - Megan You and Brooklyn Shirley, O'Fallon; second - Madyson Magnus and Halle Smith, South Central; third - Jadyn Green and Erin Connor, O'Fallon.
Business Calculations
    First place - Alex Tilock, O'Fallon; second - Garrett Roumpos, O'Fallon; third - Josiah Olden, Belleville East.
Business Law
    First place - Jamison Martin, Mascoutah High School.
Community Service Project
    First place - Emma Weick, Carlyle.
Computer Applications
    First place - Ashlyn Markus, Central Community High School; second - Makenna Lake, Central Community.

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