FCCLA Series: Competitive Events with Christine Hollingsworth

<p>• I like to think about FCCLA as kind of a menu at a restaurant, and no one in the right mind is going to go in and say, I think for dinner, I'd like one of everything to start off with.  Instead you're like, I'm gonna try this this time, and maybe when I come back next week, I'm gonna try another entrée and I'm gonna see what I like. And it's kind of the same thing with CCI. You look at national programs that you look at competitive events and you say, What do we like, what works with our program... What works with what I teach in the classroom? And then those are the things we go back and forth to all the time, instead of trying to stop our program and stuff ourselves with everything that is available, because family consumer sciences is such a broad content area that there are many opportunities for students and rightly so but not every opportunity is for everything, so sometimes you have to think about it that way as well. (2:48)</p><p>• I think one of the best things about not just competitive events, but FCCLA activities and overall, is that we do encourage students to take leadership in this so that it doesn't all fall on the shoulders of the advisor, the advisor is the one who sometimes introduces it to students, but now that students can see things across the country in virtual ways, they're actually maybe bringing this up to an advisor saying, Hey, did you know we have skill demonstration events, did you know we have knowledgeable where teachers may not have had the opportunity to have experience with those, but students see them and then they can start taking the lead in researching what are they about, what are the requirements, and then really leading their own chapter into those areas. (7:01)</p><p>• That's why I always say ask the state advisor for some guidance in that, and usually they can also help pair you up with someone else maybe in your local area who is more experienced with FCCLA, and so that's... Again, I just can't emphasize enough the value of the state advisor in this.  In the last