Take your leadership to the next level!
Running and holding an office provides students with a meaningful leadership role packed full of opportunities for personal and professional growth, networking with other leaders within FCCLA and beyond, and valuable lessons in teamwork as you’re relied upon as essential piece of a larger FCCLA community. 24-25 Officer Candidates should review the election process below, potential 25-26 candidates scroll down to read up on each type of office.
Area Officer Candidates – Conference Dress Code
- Test – Sunday at 12pm
- Report to the Lake Bemidji Room on the 4th floor by 12pm to take the Area Officer test
- Speech and Election – Area Meeting – Monday morning at 9am
- During your Area’s meeting you will give a short speech (1 minute in length) on “Who inspires you, as a member of FCCLA, to achieve your dreams in our organization?”
- Candidates may use appropriate props or costumes for their speech but if used they should be used to help you get your point across and set the mood for your speech topic.
- Memorizing your speech is not required but is strongly encouraged
- Candidate Letter drop – Monday at 4pm – outside of the Lake Bemidji Room
- New Officer Orientation – Monday at 4:15pm – Lake Bemidji Room
- Installation of new officers – Academy Awards session – Monday evening at 7pm
Peer Educator Candidates – Conference Dress Code
- Test – Sunday at 12pm
- Report to the Lake Bemidji Room on the 4th floor by 12pm to take the Area Officer test
- Develop a 30 minute workshop on a National Program or a related topic completing this FCCLA Workshop Planning Guide to outline it
- Hand it in before your test
- Be prepared to give a brief overview of your proposed workshop
- Candidate Letter drop – Monday at 4pm – outside of the Lake Bemidji Room
- New Officer Orientation – Monday at 4:15pm – Lake Bemidji Room
- Installation of new officers – Academy Awards session – Monday evening at 7pm
State Officer Candidates – Official Dress (Red Blazer, Black dress pants, Dress or Skirt) during Candidate Activities on Sunday and Monday, conference dress code all other times
- Test – Sunday 11am – 2pm (taken around interviews)
- Report to the Lake Bemidji Room on the 4th floor by 12pm to take the Area Officer test
- Interviews-Sunday 11am-2pm (exact times will be assigned soon)
- Be prepared to share why you want to be a State officer, what experience you have, what your strengths are, what makes you qualified (approx. 10-15min)
- Develop a 30 minute workshop on a National Program or a related topic completing this FCCLA Workshop Planning Guide to outline it, hand it to your interview panel (6 copies)
- Be prepared to give a brief overview of your proposed workshop (approx. 5-10min)
- Speech – Opening Session – Sunday at 4:30pm
- The State Officer Candidate speech should be 1 minute in length and reflect the work of the candidate.
- The prompt is “FCCLA is an incredible experience for students to prepare for their lives after high school. What achievements through FCCLA are you the most proud of, and how have they helped you to be the leader you are today?”
- Candidates may use appropriate props or costumes for their speech but if used they should be used to help you get your point across and set the mood for your speech topic.
- This speech should be memorized.
- Formal House of Delegates – Monday at noon – Lakeshore A
- Fishbowl style of round tables where each candidate will have a few minutes to answer questions at a table of voting delegates
- Candidate Letter drop – Monday at 4pm – outside of the Lake Bemidji Room
- New Officer Orientation – Monday at 4:15pm – Lake Bemidji Room
- Installation of new officers – Academy Awards session – Monday evening at 7pm
- Meeting of Officers – Tuesday at 7:30am – Lake Bemidji