National Winners

The West Cary chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) entered a dozen of our outstanding Family and Consumer Sciences students in the 2021 Level 1 (Grades 6-8) Skill Demonstration Events, with more than half of them placing in the top three in the country! You can see some artifacts of their work here. Congratulations to these winners, advised by Mrs. Price:

FCCLA Knowledge Challenge Nutrition Challenge
1st place: Sherin George, 7th Grade 1st place: Phebe Kelly, 8th Grade
3rd place: Ella Chase, 8th Grade 3rd place: Madelyn Kyte, 6th Grade

#TeachFCS Toys that Teach
1st Place: Riya Khapali, 7th grade 1st place: Sadie Wortman, 8th grade

Interviewing Skills
2nd place: Uditha Harish, 6th Grade

While they didn't make it on the podium this year, we are also proud of these five Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) students for competing at the national level and making it into the top 10:

Katherine Ehsaei, 6th grade - 4th place in Interviewing Skills
Amelia Marmash, 6th grade - 5th place in Nutrition
Samiksha Kadari, 7th grade - 5th place in Consumer Math
Yumi Nguyen, 6th grade - 9th place in Consumer Math
Shermya Ridgeway, 6th grade - 10th place in Early Childhood

#TeachFCS Presentation Slides.pdf

#TeachFCS_West Cary_Riya Khapali.mov

#TeachFCS_West Cary_Riya Khapali.pdf

Video_InterviewingSkills_WestCary_Uditha.mp4

Resume for Fashion Designer Intern_Uditha Harish_West Cary Middle.pdf

2021 SDE Winners for Posting.pdf

The year before, the West Cary FCCLA chapter entered seven of our outstanding Family and Consumer Sciences students in the 2020 Level 1 (Grades 6-8) Skill Demonstration Events, with six of them placing in the top three in the country (with a fourth place finish for our seventh competitor)! You can learn more about Skill Demonstration Events at https://fcclainc.org/compete/competitive-events/skill-demonstration-events.

You can watch the recognition session in which they - along with more than 350 other competitors from 27 states across the US - were recognized as part of the Virtual Leadership Experience (VLE) below or at http://bit.ly/skilldemowinners2020.