Buckeye Career Center BPA students earn national titles
Business and marketing student Madison Harmon, right, of Claymont earned first place in Fundamental Word Processing. Her classmate Danny Dews of Carrollton earned the national title in Personal Finance Management.
Two Buckeye Career Center Business Professionals of America students earned national championships while several others placed at the 2025 BPA National Leadership Conference May 7-11 in Orlando, Florida.
Business and marketing student Madison Harmon of Claymont earned first place in Fundamental Word Processing. Her classmate Danny Dews of Carrollton earned the national title in Personal Finance Management.
Ava Starner of Garaway competed with the Buckeye Business Academy team in the Parliamentary Procedure Team event and earned fourth place.
In the Computer Technology division, Indian Valley students Blake Addy, Landon Burgess and Wesley Jones and Jade McKim of Newcomerstown earned second place in the Network Design Team competition. Kaiden Pack of Strasburg placed fifth in Computer Networking. Bobbie Brown of New Philadelphia earned ninth place in Server Administration with Microsoft.
Buckeye Business Academy at East Holmes students Marissa Montanez, Naomi Crossan, Deborah Erb, Mosheh Crossan, Caleb Hershberger and Jenna Troyer and business and marketing student Ava Starner earned fourth place in the Parliamentary Procedure Team event. Montanez also placed 10th in Parliamentary Procedure Concepts. Montanez, Hershberger, Naomi Crossan, Troyer and Mosheh Crossan placed in the top 10% of competitors in open concept events.
The students are instructed by Heather Irwin in business and marketing, Bill Alexander in computer technology, and Amy Stauffer-McNutt in Buckeye Business Academy at East Holmes. BPA is a national career and technical student organization that prepares students for careers in business management, information technology, finance, office administration, health administration and related fields.