RLC Registration Opens Next Week
November 14, 8:00 am, and Remains Open Until Your RLC Registration Closes
Step-by-Step Registration Processing Instructions
Dear PA FBLA Advisers

The Region Leadership Conference (RLC) season is about to begin, and this is the first in a series of emails to prepare you and your students for the event. Receiving this email does not mean RLC registration is open today; the purpose of this email is to provide step-by-step instructions to process those registrations.

RLC registration will open on Tuesday, November 14, at 8:00 am for all 29 PA FBLA regions and will remain open until the deadline announced by your region adviser. At the earliest, RLC registration could close for a region on Saturday, November 18, at 11:59 pm, but for many regions, that day could be later.

This is the current list of known RLC registration closing dates supplied to the state office as of Tuesday, November 7:

RLC Registration Closing Dates: (all close at 11:59 pm on this published date shown below)
Region 01: not reported
Region 02: November 30, 2023
Region 03: not reported

Region 04: not reported
Region 05: November 21, 2023
Region 06: November 22, 2023

Region 07: December 01, 2023
Region 08: December 04, 2023
Region 09: November 18, 2023

Region 10: not reported
Region 11: not reported
Region 12: November 24, 2023

Region 13: December 08, 2023
Region 14: November 21, 2023
Region 15: November 22, 2023

Region 16: November 22, 2023
Region 17: November 29, 2023
Region 18: not reported

Region 19: December 01, 2023
Region 20: November 27, 2023
Region 21: November 24, 2023

Region 22: November 21, 2023
Region 23: November 22, 2023
Region 24: December 06, 2023

Region 25: November 28, 2023
Region 26: November 22, 2023
Region 27: November 30, 2023

Region 28: November 21, 2023
Region 29: December 20, 2023

To provide an RLC "one-stop" information location, the following area appears on the PA FBLA website. Please look here for information for all things RLC.
There are five important downloads that I suggest you review, access, print, and have close by to use as a reference:



Students Must Be in the National FBLA Membership System
To register students for the RLC via Blue Panda, students must be in the National FBLA Connect membership system. The students will then be imported into Blue Panda within 15-20 minutes and be eligible to be placed in competitive events under the following conditions:
  • student dues are paid by credit card
  • "payment by mail" chosen (60 days to get a check to National FBLA)
  • full purchase order uploaded (least likely option; focus on #1 or #2)

Login Credentials
For returning advisers, nothing has changed about the credentials used last year. For new advisers, temporary login credentials with instructions to set a permanent password were emailed at various times during this semester.

Those credentials will be used for the following PA FBLA events: (1) State Leadership Workshop, (2) Region Leadership Conference, (3) State Leadership Conference, and (4) National Leadership Conference.

Blue Panda is Official RLC Registration
Blue Panda is the official RLC registration across the state; it is the official record of competitors. Nothing else that anyone asks of you, including region advisers, supersedes what is in Blue Panda. You have the right to make as many changes as you wish until the day of your region's deadline at 11:59 pm. After that, any changes only come with approval of region advisers to Bruce Boncal so if something needs to change -- you need to start with your region adviser for approval. Make sure you submit (and submit often). You can add, delete, or alter entries until the date your registration closes at 11:59 pm.

For Blue Panda Support, contact Bruce Boncal. Contact information is found below.

Sincerely,

Bruce Boncal
PA FBLA Executive Director
570.279.6998 cell/texts
bboncal@pafbla.us
Pennsylvania FBLA | www.pafbla.org