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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
 Business Challenge Team – Janie McFarland, Karl Bjelland, Bryce Nelson, Evan Pearson and Kerry Shaefer, from the Montana Chamber of Commerce. Shaefer presented business awards to the Business Challenge Team. Photo courtesy of CHS
Evan Pearson, Karl Bjelland, and Bryce Nelson were on the first place team under the direction of business instructor Janie McFarland.
The contest takes place twice during a school year, once in the fall and again in the spring.
In the statewide competition, students from across Montana assumed ownership of a DVD manufacturing business and competed against 240 other teams from 47 Montana high schools.
It is estimated that by spring, 1,600 students from 45 schools will have competed in the Business Challenge.
Twenty-six students from Conrad competed as part of their accounting class at CHS.
Pearson, Bjelland, and Nelson will each be awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Montana Chamber Foundation.
Conrad had three teams placing in the top 10.
Capturing fifth was a team consisting of Sydney Phillips, Ashley Beckham, Cheney Gianarelli, and Gregg Kalbas.
Coming in at the ninth position was the team consisting of Jason Silvernale, Amanda Judisch, and McKenna Mielke.
Webb Brown, Director of the Montana Chamber of Commerce, and Kerry Shaefer, Coordinator of the Montana Business Challenge, was on hand to make presentations.
Schafer noted, “It’s really unusual to have three teams from the same school place in the top 10.”
McFarland has taught at CHS for 18 years. She likes to have students enter the program for its problem solving and teamwork challenges and is a help to the financial analysis segment she teaches in her accounting classes.
Students began with company stock prices of $25 a share and had to tackle a number of hypothetical business situations, such as borrowing, expansion, or hire and fire to name a few.
The Business Challenge runs for eight weeks, each week representing one business quarter during a two-year time frame.
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