DIRECTIONS: Read the PowerPoint for the Business Professionals of America to find the answers to the following questions. 1. What is the leading Career Technical Student Organization for students who want careers in business management, office administration, information technology and other related career fields? __________________________ 2. In how many total states will one find members of Business Professionals of America? ____________________________ 3. In the a slide there is a statement that: BPA is a "co-curricular" organization that supports business and information technology, what does "co curricular" mean according to the third slide? It should be _______________________________ 4. What is involvement in our organization supposed to bring its members? the opportunity for the development of __________________________________ __________________ and ________________________ growth, and __________________________________ competencies. 5. Involvement also will help members with _________________________________, ___________________________________ and ________________________ of the business community 6. What three main words ending in -ation does Membership in Business Professionals of America offer? ___________________________, ______________________ and ____________________________ 7. Into how many Business Professionals of America regions is the State of Ohio divided? _______ 8. If you count all divisions, how many states have BPA chapters? ________ 9. Secondary is one division. How many total divisions are there in BPA? ______ 10. Who is the national Executive Director for Business Professionals of America? _____________________________ 11. Where would you mail something to Business Professionals of America's National Center? _________________________________________________ 12. What part of our name stands for the field in which you are studying and are being trained to work efficiently in? ___________________________________ 13. What part of our name reflects the hope that members take advantage of a wide variety of professional development opportunities? __________________ 14. What part of our name symbolizes pride in our country and its free enterprise business system? _______________ 15. What are the words of our organization's tagline that is always supposed to appear whenever we use our logo? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. What are our official colors __________________________________________ 17. Which color signifies the success achieved through leadership and professionalism? ________________________ 18. What color represents the bountiful fields of opportunity in America? _________ 19. What color symbolizes the friendship obtained through teamwork in our organization? ______________________ 20. What color is the official blazer of our organization? ______________________

21. Fill in the missing words of our organization's Pledge . We are met in a spirit of ______________________ and ___________________ as we prepare for ________________________________in ________________ and _______________ careers. We work together to develop ___________________________and ___________________________ through Business Professionals of America and pledge __________________________ _____________________________________, 22. What are the dates for the following? Ohio's State Fall Leadership Conference _______________________________ 23. Ohio's State Leadership Conference ___________________________________ 24. Where in Columbus is the state Fall Conference going to be this year? _____________________________________ 25. What is the address given for this year’s Grand Awards Ceremony (for state contests)? _______________________ 26. When our organization started it had a different name. What was that name? ______________________________ 27. Business Professionals of America is one of the five Career and Technical Student Organization in Ohio. What are the other 4 _______________________ for marketing students _______________________ for agriculture students _______________________ for those in Family and Consumer Science classes. _______________________ for Trade, Technical, Skilled-Service and Health Occupations students 28. The Emblem which is only used for formal ceremonial has four points, each representing something. What are the 4 points of the Emblem? ________________________________________________________________ 29. What part of the torch represents the following ideals of our organization? ________________________ honor, dignity, and the importance of business in America ________________________ worthy goals pursued by the organization and its members ________________________ the service provided by those employed in business occupations ________________________ essential characteristics of successful worker education: citizenship, loyalty, patriotism, dependability and competency ________________________the stability of business occupations. 30. What is our national service project? ___________________________________

31. The National BPA Website can be found at www.bpa.org. On the slide showing what that looks like the letters WSAP appear in a white box. This is the official name of Business Professionals of America contests. What do the letters WSAP stand for? ________________________________________________________ 32.

Where's will the NLC be in 2011 ___________________________________.