Category Archives: BCTAL
2012 College and Career Night
BPA National and DECA International Winners
Six business students from Haltom High School, the Shannon Learning Center and the Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning (BCTAL) won at state and competed at the National Business Professionals of America Conference in Chicago. Loan Tran, Haltom High School, won first place in Management, Marketing and Human Resources. Also, BISD had 18 marketing students who won at state and competed at the International DECA Career Development Conference in Salt Lake City. Two Birdville High School teams were international finalists and one team was a medal winners placing in the Top Ten. Winners were: Payton Albert and Lyndee Lemmons in Sports and Entertainment Marketing Operations Research; and Kelsie Beal and Sarah Wheatfall in Finance Operations Research. Additionally. two BISD students served Texas DECA as state officers at the International Conference. They were: Holly Norris, state reporter, and Daniel Whitted, state secretary.
Media Technology SkillsUSA District Competition Winners
Students from the Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning’s Media Technology program recently competed in the SkillsUSA district competition for AV Production. Winners were:
Best in Show for Animaton
- Lydia Tallon, Richland High
State Qualifying Video Projects
- Joel Warren, “Threshold”
- Drew Thomas, “Projections”
- Hunter Coon and Daron Westphal, “Curbside”
- Kason Bryden, “Edgar”
- Lydia Tallon, “Gouda”
- Connor Clift, “Before and After”
AV Production Quiz Bowl
Silver Medalists (Advancing to state)
- Kason Bryden, Richland High
- Coleton Gambill, Richland High
- Lydia Tallon, Richland High
- Collin McDonald, Richland High
- Connor Clift, Richland High
Video Product Demo:
Silver Medalists (Advancing to state)
- Amanda Murphy, Birdville High
- Cody Nelson, Birdville High
Bronze Medalists
- Lydia Tallon, Richland High
- Dani Greenlee, Haltom High
Fourth Place
- Tyler Whittington, Birdville High
- Nick Heinhold, Richland
Audio Production
Silver Medalists (Advancing to state)
- Kason Bryden, Richland High
- Coleton Gambill, Richland High
Fourth Place
- Collin McDonalid, Richland High
- Ryan Adame, Richland High
TV Production
Fourth place
- Kason Bryden, Richland High
- Veda Vandever, Richland High