FACS students receive awards for business plan, website ideas

Four Homewood Middle School Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) students competed in the FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) STAR leadership competition. Both teams placed in their event, with one of the groups receiving an invitation to compete at the national level. 

Eighth-graders Jeylyn Hunter and Cierra Redin placed silver in the Entrepreneurship event. The team created a business plan to open a dance studio in an impoverished area of Alabama to help renew the economy and bring character education and health and wellness to the community. Seventh-graders Paige Wildt and Kate Watters placed Gold in thee Environmental Ambassadors event and were extended an invitation to the national competition in Washington, D.C. for their innovative approach to improving their community through environmental awareness. The team created a website, Wellness Folks, that provides recipes for all-natural cleaning and beauty products to reduce waste and to prevent dangerous chemicals from entering our homes. 

The FCCLA sponsor is Briana Morton, the FACS teacher at Homewood Middle School.