The Sage Informer

On Friday, April 22, Mr. Webb brought six of his most talented Business Club students to Lake Land College in order to compete in a state-wide business competition. 

Webb’s confidence was riding high going into the competition, and he stated that his team “actually had a shot at winning,” even though he believed he assembled a team of “buffoons.” Webb had constructed the team himself with many revisions along the way, but he finally decided on the final six just two weeks before the competition.

His team consisted of seniors Dylan Ginalick, Joey Sprinkle, Raegan Yeager, Ed Mitchell, Peyton Scott, and Jackson Grambart. Of this team of six, each participant was assigned to a category and was to take a quiz or create a project based on their assigned category. 

In order to prepare for the competition, this dream team would meet weekly to study. Studying individually was also expected as Mr. Webb even rented out books about Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint as study tools for his participants. These were all categories in the competition.

Mr. Webb claimed that he checked out all the books about Microsoft from all surrounding libraries so that other teams couldn’t have them. He even incurred fines from these libraries, saying, “I have to pay a penny everyday that I don’t return them.”

Not only did this team have to take quizzes and create projects as individuals, but they had to work in a team as well. Prior to the date of the competition, the Lake Land College crew in charge of the competition sent out tasks to all teams in order to give them a foot-up before the competition started.

 These tasks included taking a team picture in front of the school, word searches with hidden riddles, sudokus, and more. These tasks would reward points to participating teams and would add onto the point total for the actual competition. 

Unfortunately, after all was done, the Monticello team did not receive a top three finish in the competition which consisted of 14 teams from schools all over the state, but they did have good individual performances. An example is Dylan Ginalick, who earned a second place finish in the accounting category.

Ginalick admitted that he didn’t do much outside studying for his accounting quiz that he took at the competition, but he prepared by attending his regularly-scheduled accounting class taught by none other than Mr. Webb. Ginalick said, “I didn’t feel the need to do any outside studying because I knew Mr. Webb’s teachings would do me well and because he is just that good at teaching.”

Trevor Fox, Staff Writer
foxtr22@sages.us