Bauxite High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter earned an impressive list of awards at the District III FBLA Conference, held at the Grand Prairie Center in Stuttgart.

Students who placed in the top six in objective test events and the top five in performance events qualified to advance to the FBLA State Conference, scheduled for April 7–8 in Little Rock.

🥇 First-Place Winners

Bauxite students claimed multiple first-place finishes, including:

• Business Management:
  Andrew Matthew & Charliey Wylie
• Future Business Educator:
  Emilee Howlett
• Insurance & Risk Management:
  Ariel King
• Introduction to Information Technology:
  Lexington Tullos
• Journalism:
  Kymberly Richard
• Securities & Investments:
  Evan Reaves
• Social Media Strategies:
  Mariah Banks & Dion Jones
• Website Design:
• Haven Ellington & Hudson White
• Who’s Who in FBLA:
  Emilee Howlett

🥈 Second-Place Finishers

• Business Communication:
  Gabe Williams
• Human Resource Management:
  Jordan Sherwood
• Introduction to FBLA:
  Lucas Thompson
• Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure:
  Jaxon Howell
• Job Interview: Alexis Fuller
• Public Service Announcement:
• Logan Maddox, Damian Camp & Bryce Smith
• Real Estate:
  Rylee Ferrell

🥉 Third-Place Winners

• Cybersecurity:
  Brynner Kinkaid
• Data Science & AI:
  Corbin Robinson
• Event Planning:
  Charleigh Johnson & Aiden Peterson
• Introduction to Supply Chain Management:
  Braylon Hartwick

🏅 Fourth–Sixth Place Finishers

• 4th Place:
  • Introduction to Business Presentation
    — Kyler Petit
  • Retail Management
    — Kyler Branch
  • Visual Design
    — Traci Hahn
• 5th Place:
  • Healthcare Administration
    — Abbigail Patton
  • Cybersecurity
    — Brody Mathis
• 6th Place:
  • Project Management
    — Nicolas Thompson

✨ Top 10 Honorable Mentions

Several students also earned Top 10 honors in their categories:

• Advertising
  — Sadie Parrish (10th)
• Business Management
  — Myka Royal (10th)
• Introduction to Business Communication
  — Emalynn Ellington (10th)
• Introduction to Business Concepts
  — Jazzlynn Taber (7th)
• Introduction to Business Procedures
  — Alexander Matthew (8th)
• Organizational Leadership
  — Gabbi Van Dyke (9th)
• Personal Finance
  — Ethan Quimby (8th)

Students Madalyn Bennett, Makala Wishard, and Josh Gray were also recognized in Who’s Who in District III.

📣 District Leadership Announced

Several Bauxite students were elected to serve as 2026–2027 District III FBLA Officers:

• Madalyn Bennett
  — District III Vice President
• Josh Gray
  — District III Coordinator’s Assistant
• Zeb Smith
  — District III Parliamentarian

With strong finishes across multiple competitive events, Bauxite FBLA students will now prepare to represent their school and district at the upcoming state competition in Little Rock.

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