On March 13th, 2020 the TN department of education announced the cancellation of all state CTE events for the remainder of the school year due to the ongoing COVID- 19 Crisis. While we recognise that this was necessary to protect everyone involved, members of TN FBLA would like more information on what the plans are for TN FBLA in regards to the rest of the school year and a possible virtual conference.

The last time that members of our state chapter received any communication involving SLC (with the exception of the #TNFBLASTRONG video) was approximately one month ago. While we understand that figuring out the logistics of something like this takes quite a long time, TN FBLA members deserve more communication from their State Office in regards to SLC.

With all of this being said, we would like to voice our opinion that TN should move their SLC to an online format, joining 19+ other states including, but not limited to: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming.

Many of these states have already begun their virtual conferences and have shown great success thus far. We recognise that this is something new for all of us and that it may be challenging, but we are willing to help by providing technical assistance, corporation, and most important of all... some amazing competition in regards to a virtual conference.

In addition, a good portion of competition has already been completed in the form of objective testing. Releasing these scores would also be a tremendous help to TN FBLA members hoping to gage their progress.

While this may not be the traditional SLC experience, lots of us still want to compete in the newly announced virtual NLC (and at the very least a digital SLC could provide good practice for that) and hope to bring TN home even more awards!

TLDR: TN FBLA members would like more communication from the state office and would like to participate in a virtual SLC.