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 Kyrah Riley and Sarah deRueda will attend the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America 2007 National Leadership Meeting in Anaheim, California, July 8-12, 2007. The girls won the honor to compete in the STAR Events competition earlier this Spring. They developed a small business plan for a trendy clothing boutique. They are one of the twenty five individuals or teams chosen from over five hundred contestants to represent Arkansas at the 2007 National Leadership meeting in Anaheim, California. This is only the fourth time the Monticello School District has been represented on the National level.

Kyrah and Sarah joined FCCLA as seventh graders at MMS and immediately became active in the chapter’s activities. Both are chapter officers and have competed in state and National projects. They won the state division and competed in Nashville, Tennessee, last year. FCCLA is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences Education in public and private schools through grade12. It is the only organization that focuses on the family. Involvement in FCCLA offers members the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills for life planning, goal setting, problem solving, decision making, and interpersonal communication necessary in families, communities, and workplaces.