Dear PA FBLA Advisers
This is a reminder that State Leadership Workshop registration and lodging CLOSES this Saturday, October 1, at 11:59 pm. If you and your chapter members are planning to attend, now is the time to make final plans and make commitments.
It is important that you know this piece of information for your planning: there is a strong possibility that there will not be any rooms available after this deadline. Why? With the convention center expansion at Kalahari, there is another large group at the facility at the same time. Their room block appears to be sold out, and Kalahari is asking for a final room count from PA FBLA on Monday, October 3. Any unbooked rooms will need to be returned to the hotel's inventory at that time and presumably turned over to the other group. If any rooms are available after that date, it could be at the "market price," which can run in the $400-$500 per night range.
Basic information
Base event date: Sunday, October 30, and Monday, October 31 (1 night)
Pre-event lodging: Saturday, October 29
$40 per person registration fee
$255 per room per night (1-4 persons in a room) (includes waterpark tickets)
Attendance restrictions: none -- there is no limit on the number of students/advisers a chapter may bring; high school 9-12 and middle school 5-8 FBLA members are eligible to attend
Blue Panda Registration/Lodging
It is important to remember that all students MUST be placed in the National FBLA membership before they can be imported into Blue Panda (dues do not need to be paid at that time/they just need to be in the system).
You cannot enter students directly into Blue Panda. In order to have time to import members into Blue Panda, give yourself at least a 12-hour time period before the students will appear in Blue Panda after you have created membership orders for students. I cannot help you if you do not have your members wanting to attend the SLW in the membership system first so that they can be imported into Blue Panda.
Usernames and passwords did not change in Blue Panda. If you need assistance because you do not know your username/password, please let me know and I will reset it.
National FBLA Membership Processing Refresher
If you need a refresher on membership processing, contact me for a personal 20-minute 1:1 Zoom update.