Nordine participates at national FBLA event

Lake Roosevelt High School graduate Kaitlyn Nordine participated at the national Future Business Leaders of America competition in Chicago, Illinois that took place from June 29-July 2. 

Although not placing, Nordine competed in the journalism category in a test covering the economics of journalism, grammar and format, law and ethics, the business of journalism, and the history of journalism. 

The test focused "on the principles of journalism, such as the laws pertaining to journalism, and the unwritten things such as how to be unbiased while writing an article, how to quote sources, and how to correctly write things in AP format," Nordine explained in an email that LR FBLA Advisor Susan Duclos shared with The Star. "It also covered the Watergate papers greatly, from who the source was, to the laws and reasons that the Washington Post (was) able to publish."

"For the test," she continued, "I went into a large testing area with over a hundred other people, where we were directed to a section for our test, and the paper instructing us how to login. From there I sat and took the test, which is 100 questions in a one-hour timeframe, which I finished with around 20 minutes to spare, upon which I packed up the computer, and headed out of the testing area."

While they were in Chicago, Nordine, along with another LR FBLA advisor, Stacy Davis, also went to Six Flags theme park, the Shedd aquarium, and the Hard Rock Cafe during their stay.

Nordine graduated from LR this year, and will be attending Whitworth College in Spokane.