Oregon FBLA News

FBLA VIRTUAL BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Interactive and online FBLA competition! Team Registration Began November 1st! Get Started Today!

The FBLA Virtual Business Challenge (VBC) is an official competitive event brought to your Chapter by FBLA and Knowledge Matters. Participants will use highly visual simulation software (like SimCity) to manage a distribution business. The FBLA VBC software will be a free limited function version of the leading business simulation for education, Virtual Business - Management, which is currently used in 49 states. Virtual Business - Management is a software program that was created by Knowledge Matters, Inc. The initial feasibility research was funded by a U.S. Department of Education SBIR Contract.

WHAT'S NEW FOR 2004/2005

The FBLA Virtual Business Challenge is an official competitive event. There will be two Challenges (qualifying rounds for Nationals), one for each semester
Top 10 nationally ranked teams from each Challenge will qualify to compete at the NLC. Only one team per state per Challenge is allowed to qualify
There will be at least one timed session for each qualifying team to compete in at the NLC in June.

TEAM REGISTRATION (Began November 1st)

To participate in the VBC, a Team must first register its Team Members. Go to www.knowledgematters.com and click on FBLA-PBL to get started!