ELKMONT FCCLA CONVENTION WINNERS

Six Elkmont FCCLA (Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America) Members traveled to Montgomery for the State FCCLA Convention, March 9-11.

The group traveled with students and teachers from Clements and East Limestone. The students representing Elkmont included: 

*Eighth Grade  
Mackenzie McCart

*Freshmen 
Kalei Barnes and Griffin Bryant

*Juniors 
Shainna Miller, Alyssa Smith, Christina Stacy

While traveling to Montgomery on Wednesday, the students visited Locked-In, Birmingham. This was a team-building exercise where 8 people were locked in a room and given a one-hour time limit. The team had to use clues found inside the room to “unlock” the door. 

 

On Thursday, the students participated in the Leadership Conference at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center. There were students from around the state in attendance. Some of the items on the agenda included: a business meeting of Alabama FCCLA, key note speaker—Patrick Grandy, and special presentations from Nate Wells, Type 1 patient and Frances McGowin with Service Dogs Alabama.

On Friday, three Elkmont students competed in the FCCLA State STAR Events Competition. 

Mackenzie McCart, eighth grade student competed in Focus on Children.  This is an individual or team event that recognizes participants who use Family and Consumer Sciences skills to plan and conduct a child development project that has a positive impact on children and the community. Mackenzie presented a nutrition lesson to the Kindergarten here at Elkmont. Her focus of the project was to encourage children to eat a variety of foods every day. This was the first year of competition for Mackenzie! With her project, Mackenzie brought home a Gold Medal. We are so proud of how Mackezie represented Elkmont.

 

Juniors, Alyssa Smith and Christina Stacy, competed in National Programs in Action, Leadership. This is an individual or team event that recognizes participants who explain how the FCCLA Planning Process was used to implement a national program project. Alyssa and Christian chose to raise awareness about childhood cancer. They chose to focus their project on classmate, Leah Seibert. 

Their project displayed how they used their leadership skills to plan and facilitate a fundraiser and community service project in honor of Leah and her battle with cancer. This was the first year that these two competed! With their project, Alyssa and Christina brought home a Silver Medal. 

We are so proud of how Alyssa and Christina represented Elkmont. These two students still have a chance of representing Elkmont at the National Leadership Conference this summer in San Diego, California.