Minnewaska Business Professionals of American members were in Chicago, Ill., May 10-13 to compete at the National BPA Conference. The Broadcast News Team of Blake Nelson, Connor Quelle and Jayce Kovarik (pictured above, left) placed 4th in the nation. The news team competed in the first round on Saturday and advanced to the finals on Sunday. All teams in the finals had to create a new one minute video on the Northern Lights, the science behind them and how that would affect seeing the lights in Chicago. Soffia Stadtherr (right) competed in the Administrative Support Research Project. She wrote a paper on how and what technology is incorporated into a workplace setting. Both Soffia and the news team competed in the first round of competition and the news team made it on to the finals. Minnewaska’s BPA group is coached by Karna Palmer.