001Everybody still working up here. Welcome back to the Clearwater Sports Talk podcast. Leadworthy, we're coming for you. Today, we're getting into some more non-sporty events, but we're still going to tell you about them. Today, we're going to talk about FCCLA, and today I have Hannah Shoaf and Emma Moll. And today I'm going to be asking a few questions, and we're going to get to learn about what they do in FCCLA, what FCCLA is, and what it does for our school, and kind of what it does for the community, what it does for the world, and all about it. Here we go. Hannah, what is FCCLA? So, FCCLA Sorry. So, FCCLA stands for Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America. It is a CTSO, which is a career technical school organization. We attend many conferences, we
002do a lot of community service, and we are mainly focused on like teaching students to lead and that we can do stuff and not not everything has to be ran by adults. Anything else she may left out? No, she did good. Um well, Emma, FCCLA, what kind of made you do it? So, first of all, um I had two friends who are now seniors. They like really encouraged me to just go to the meeting in general. And then um the meeting like kind of like entice me to do it because they brought up like a bunch of like trips, and I honestly kind of just wanted to do it for the traveling, but then I ended up really liking it. What about you, Hannah? Uh I had originally joined it cuz I figured it look
003good on like a college transcript, but the more I did it, I actually fell in love with it, and I'm very glad I did it. Um well, Hannah, what do you specifically do in FCCLA? FCCLA. Um that is a good question. I do a lot. Um so, it started off I was just a chapter officer, which is a chapter is just like our school group, so only Clearwater people. Um I ran for district president, which district is not state level, but it's like several counties around us, and I've been district president 2 years. Uh this year was my final year. I am a Kansas State Peer Education team member for the Stand Up team member. So that's the Stand Up is a community service uh sector and so we go to workshops around the state
004and we present about Stand Up to the kids. Um I am on the Kansas State board. Uh so I help choose our bylaws and all that stuff we need to figure out. Um I'm also a part of SEAC uh which is all the advisors, district advisors from each district meet and we just discuss about, "Okay, what are things we can change?" and all that sorts of stuff. So that's about what I do. How are you, Emma? Um I also started out as a chapter officer and then I ended up running for district president and now I'm the new district president. So. Sweet. I handed my gavel down to her. Yeah. Um so what are some accomplishments you've uh earned, Emma? So far. Um so first of all, my freshman year I made it to state
005with gold. And then um this year I am going to be going to state as I did at districts. I ended up also getting gold this year. And um again, I also win won district president. So. What about you? Um I have a lot, not to brag, but basically my freshman year I made it to state on a gold. Sophomore year I made it to state and nationals, which was fun. Nationals was in Seattle that year. Uh last year unfortunately I did not advance past districts. Um and then this year I've made it to state with a gold. So making it to state with a gold, what specifically are you doing? Like what are you performing? What are you talking about? What are you like speaking about? Like what specific like, you know, what do
006you do at these conferences to get gold? >> So um how we place with our events, they're called STAR events, which is Students Taking Action Action with Recognition. Um and there's different events, There's different categories. So, I've done career investigation, promote and publicize, sustainability challenge, and um, nutritional wellness. So, they're all kind of different based on I don't know how I'd say that, but based on different things. And so, yeah, we do projects. We It usually we start at the beginning of the year and we are gathering information, we're giving speeches, we're researching stuff, we're creating foods if we're doing stuff like that. And then yeah, you'll go present it at the district level and then if you advance on, so on and so on. So, are you like in front of a squad of
007like judges or something? >> there's three judges, a runner, and a timer. Uh, so there's five people standing in front or sitting in front of you, but three of them are who is judging you. What what have you like presented so far? So, I've presented food innovations and national programs in action. And you got gold in both of those, you said? >> Yes. Um, so kind of what does a conference like look like? Like what What does that day kind of look like? So, it honestly most Well, a lot of it depends on like the setting on where you are in general, but basically you go there and you're all like in a holding room. And then the runner that she mentioned will come and get you to like present your project to these panel
008of judges basically. And then you present a 10-minute presentation and then you take that um, they judge it. And then you take it back in there and then you basically just like kind of wait all day. And then yeah. So, that's like STAR Event competitions. As far as our other conferences go, we have a fall leadership conference. Uh, that is mainly we usually bring in a keynote speaker. We kind of go over some information for the new people of what FCCLA is and we have workshops, so they'll split apart and do that stuff. And then we always have a community service project for everybody to work on. This year is tie blankets, so we make tie blankets to donate to Victory in the Valley. Um, so are you like perform this on in an on
009an auditorium stage in front of multiple people including the judges or you just a perform this by yourself on the stage in front of the five people? So when you are doing your event it is just it's like in a big room. There's multiple different tables of judges for each event, but you're just presenting to your judges. There's no audience to watch or anything. Like ever? No. Um, so you said you went to Nationals what was Nationals like? So I've been to Nationals two years. I went to Seattle and then I went last year to Orlando, Florida. It is super fun. It's a lot of it what I thought was going to be is oh we're going to be sitting in these meetings workshops all day. No, it was so much fun. We got to
010explore all different stuff like last year in Orlando we went to Disney World, Sea World, and Universal. Um, also water park, but the actual conference it's every state is there. There are tons of people. We do pin trading so each state has their own little pin that goes on their lanyard and you just trade pins and it's a fun way to interact with everybody. And of course there's always a fashion show for the people presenting a fashion construction. Um, and then yeah there's some workshops you can attend and then the actual opening ceremonies and all those meetings are super fun. Like everybody's hyped up. It's just a fun experience. So is it more just a more for the fun experience and not for oh I need to like lock in and do good so I
011can earn like a trophy. This is just It's medals. But no yeah it's very nerve-wracking, but as soon like you're like very nerve nervous leading up to when you present and then you usually present within the first couple of days and it's a week long. So after you present those couple days you're golden and you're not really scared anymore and and then until the day where we find out our results then you're kind of like okay what is what's going to happen? Yeah, so what does it take to get to Nationals? Uh, you have to place first or second at state. There is usually around 15 people per event. It really depends on how booked or how popular that event is that year. But yeah, you have to place top two with a score above
01280, I want to say. I can't remember the exact number, but you have to score above that to advance on to Nationals. And uh have you been to Nationals yet? Uh no, I have not. But but were were you eyeing it, right? She does get to go this year, so. >> get to go this year though, so. Yeah. Um well, did you like Seattle or Orlando better? Seattle. Really? Mhm. Well, seems like you got to do a lot of things in Orlando. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That probably sounds like a lot and it sounds really fun. Um but our teacher for FCCLA or you know, uh Mrs. Weber, like tell me a little bit about her. Uh Mrs. Weber has been a FCS teacher, which is family consumer sciences teacher, for several years. I want to
013say it's over 10 years. Uh she's taught at different schools and everything. Uh she's always been an FCCLA advisor. Uh she actually was an FCS in the FCCLA herself as a kid, but she's super supportive and she's always um winning awards and very accomplished in different activities and stuff like that. Do you agree? Yes. Anything else to add about Mrs. Weber? Um honestly, like personality-wise, she's very nice. Um but like she can be like mean-ish sometimes, just depending if A little kind of stern. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. But yeah, she always wants the best of us, so if she's got to be hard on us, then we will. >> Almost like a almost like a coach. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um well, Hannah, you are at your senior your senior year and you're
014very accomplished in this. Um what do your future plans look like and do you see yourself going to college and maybe uh coming out to be like a Mrs. Weber someday or maybe like joining a a group in college that kind of pertains to FCCLA or is kind of like it? Um so, I have no interest myself in being a teacher or anything. That's just not kind of what I want to do. I would still like to be involved in FCCLA like coming back to judge and stuff like that. But my plans are I'm going to go to WSU to study criminal justice and then I haven't decided from there whether I want to go law enforcement route or go further and get a law degree and become a lawyer. But that's kind of what
015my plans are. Well, Emily, you're still uh pretty young. You still got what you said you got 2 years left? 2 years left. Um so you still have a a lot of time uh to figure it out. Um but like what what at this moment would be like your ideal future plans? Um so like Hannah, I'm not like really planning to go like down the FCS teacher route or anything like that. But um I'm right now I'm wanting to go to KU to study psychology to become a pediatric occupational therapist which has nothing to really do with FCCLA. But um yeah, but I also would like to still be involved. Yeah. And I mean uh many people at your age I mean at my age I know I I had a whole different idea of
016what I wanted to do. So I mean there's a chance it could change. But if that's what you're passionate about then uh good luck to both of you. Um thank you guys for coming on the podcast today. Thank you guys for telling us about FCCLA. Um hopefully y'all learned something today cuz I know I did. And uh catch you guys in the next one. Thank you for listening and watching. Beep beep.