BPAFlorida Business Professionals of America held their 2013 State Leadership Conference at the Hilton at the WDW Resort this past weekend. It was a busy weekend for all that attended from Timber Creek High School.

Timber Creek’s Chapter was recognized for the following:
• Florida Quality Chapter of Distinction
• Membership Recruitment
Increase numbers in our membership numbers from the previous year
• Relay for Life
2012 participation
• Conference Assistants (interns at the Conference)
TC has been in charge of Conference Assistants for the past 6 years. Our TC students work very closely with the State Advisor & are responsible to assign all Conference Assistants a position, keep track of them, & report final numbers of Conference Assistants to the State Advisor at the end of the day.

TCHS’ students did very well in their competitive events. Out of the 9 students that competed, 6 placed in their respected events.

NOTE: Those highlighted in yellow have the opportunity to attend the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, FL May 8 – 10 at the Swan & Dolphin at Walt Disney World to compete in the event listed above their name.

Fundamental Accounting
2nd Emily Spiteri
3rd Aneeqah Sohail

Fundamental Accounting
5th Caleb West

Banking & Finance
5th Stephanie Mbionwu

Financial Math & Analysis – Open Event
Emily Spiteri (top 5 finish)

Keyboarding Production
5th Jhohan Lozano

C++ Programming
1st Austin King

JAVA Programming
1st Chandler Lattin

Video Production Team
1st Tadas Andriekus, John Bailey, Dallas, Connelly, Jelani Hill

Graphic Design Promotion
2nd Mackenzie Betteridge

Extemporaneous Speech
2nd Jacob Alexander

Management/Marketing/Human Resource – Open Event
1st Emily Spiteri

By Kimberly Dobson

An alumni of UCF, I began teaching English at Timber Creek High School in 2004. I have taught all grade levels, but spent the most time teaching English 3 honors before becoming a writing teacher. I now teach Creative Writing regular and advanced, Journalism, and Newspaper. I am also the adviser for FLOW: the TCHS Literary and Art Magazine, the Key Club, Quill and Scroll, the Life Skills Club, and our schools Poetry Slam team. I am married and gave birth to our first child, James, in May of 2013. In my free time (hah!) I think about school and spend time with my family.