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Dear PA FBLA Advisers
Thursday, February 15, 2024, by 11:59 pm is the upload deadline for the four chapter reports WITH required pre-recorded video presentations:
Read the guidelines carefully, please, to make sure everyone understands the event requirements, especially regarding the pre-recorded video.
Report Requirements
The reports must be one single file in PDF format. They are not to exceed 17 pages, which includes the table of contents and front cover. Before submitting, make sure you review the guidelines for the event for additional report requirements. Make sure you understand the following statement that appears in the event guidelines (links above): "Report formats must follow the same sequence shown on the rating sheet found in these guidelines. If the information is not available for a particular criterion, include a statement to that effect in the report. The report must be similar to that of a business report with substantiated statements in a clear and concise format."
How Do I Upload the Reports?
- Sign on to Blue Panda.
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You must register 1-3 students who will be the potential presenters. These students may come from students already attending the conference in another competitive event, or they may be students who may be newly registered presenters.
- When identifying that your chapter is entering this event, you must remember this is not SLC registration: you are identifying students who will be your presenters in this event and your chapter is declaring it is submitting a report. The students are the ones who will appear in the pre-recorded video you will submit along with the written report. The Top 15 finalists will be announced no later than March 1, 2024.
- You enter the students in the competitive event and assign them to the report events you plan to enter.
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Remember, these are CHAPTER events, not individual or team events. Students can be competing in one of the regular competitive events PLUS a chapter event (but students may only participate in one chapter event).
What is the Pre-Recorded Video Component?
In addition to the written report, the chapter is required to submit a pre-recorded video with the presenters presenting the project as if they were "live" in front of a panel of judges. This is similar to the requirement in other state-only events, but it is new for the chapter events for 2024.
What are the video requirements, and how will it be evaluated? Carefully review the "presentation rating sheet" that judges will use to evaluate the presentation. That's what you need to make sure is included in your presentation; tailor your presentation to the rating sheet expectation items.
The maximum presentation time is 7 minutes to describe the project and the results obtained. Student presenters must comply with dress code requirements. The recorded video must be uploaded to YouTube as an "unlisted." Document: Uploading Videos to YouTube as Unlisted.
Questions: Contact Derek Selleck, Competitive Events Coordinator, dselleck@pafbla.us.
Don't wait until the last moment! These are not projects that can wait until the last moment.
Where Do I Upload the Written Report and the Video URL in Blue Panda?
Look for this area when you sign on to Blue Panda; look for the gold bar which reads "additional items due."
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