Putting together a lesson plan. Compiling a portfolio. Shadowing teachers. Teaching that lesson.

As if receiving a silver medal at the National Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Leadership Conference wasn’t enough, Shayla Patton had a few roadblocks to get through to win in the first place.

Shayla, a senior at Delta High School, was honored this past summer in Atlanta, Ga.

Conference judges were looking at how well students would follow a rubric and display public speaking, Shayla’s FCCLA Advisor, Denise Dewsnup, said.

And the contestants had to explain their process in getting at a great lesson, which Shayla taught to a first-grade class, Shayla told the Millard School District Board of Education in its Sept. 13 meeting at the district office, where she was recognized.

In the free time she had in the Peach State, Shayla enjoyed seeing historical sites.

“We got to tour CNN,” she said.

Shayla took home her hardware due to her success in the Teach and Train competition, according to the board.

Shayla, the FCCLA president at DHS and a Sterling Scholar, wants to be a teacher, she said. Shayla has done a teaching internship.

Shayla is the daughter of Delta’s Scott and Janice Patton.

More than 30 functions related to family and consumer sciences, called Students Taking Action with Recognition, were available at the conference. More than 4,500 students participated in the associated competitions.