SLC Judges

Your Invitation to Judge

You are invited to join us for our Annual Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference to be held at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on March 14-15, 2025. As a student-based organization, we anticipate approximately 1,800 high school students and teachers who represent our statewide business education curriculum. The winners of each Workplace Skills Assessment Program event at this conference will be eligible to compete at our National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida in May.

Many of our assessment events require the students to demonstrate skill proficiency during demonstrations, oral presentations, and/or interview simulations. To create a business experience as realistic as possible for these students, we need the assistance of volunteers from business and industry. Therefore, we would like to invite you to share your many talents and participate as an assessment event judge.

If you are interested in obtaining specific details about serving as a judge, review the Judged Event Descriptions and review the list of event times below.

If you received a personal invitation as a past judge via e-mail or you are learning about the volunteer opportunity via this website, please complete the form below to sign up as a judge for the conference.

Past BPA members may not serve as a volunteer judge for any of the judged events until they have been out of high school for three or more years. There are other volunteer opportunities for such alumni. Please contact Alumni Coordinator Maria Myers at alumni@michiganbpa.org.

SLC Judge Resources

Judged Event Descriptions

Hotel Accommodations

If you need hotel accommodations, you may click the link below to make a reservation at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. A limited number of rooms are available. Make your reservation early.

Directions to Amway Grand Plaza Hotel (PDF)

NOTE: All judges must be able to efficiently navigate web browsers and PDF resources because all evaluation scores will be entered in a scoring website in real time during competition. Judges who have presubmitted materials to evaluate will download the submissions and evaluate those materials online prior to the conference. Furthermore, on the day of competition, all judges must bring a laptop or tablet device that is Wi-Fi compatible.

IMPORTANT: If you have served as a judge for many state conferences in the past, please be advised that several events have different times than the past due to the addition of some new events.

SLC JudgeD Event Times

Friday, March 14, 2025

  • Broadcast News Production Team: 8:15 AM – 3:15 PM

  • Economic Research Team: 8:15 AM – 3:15 PM

  • Ethics & Professionalism (Preliminaries): 8:15 AM - 12:30 PM

  • Financial Analyst Team: 8:15 AM – 3:45 PM

  • Global Marketing Team: 8:15 AM – 3:30 PM

  • Parliamentary Procedure Team: 9:00 AM – 3:15 PM

  • Podcast Production Team: 8:15 AM - 3:15 PM

  • Prepared Speech (Preliminaries): 8:15 AM – 12:30 PM

  • Presentation Individual (Preliminaries): 8:15 AM – 1:15 PM

  • Video Production Team: 8:15 AM – 3:15 PM

Saturday, March 15, 2025 (Morning)

  • Advanced Interview Skills (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 12:15 PM

  • Digital Media Production (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

  • Economic Research Individual (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM

  • Entrepreneurship (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM

  • Ethics & Professionalism (Finals): 8:00 AM - 12:15 PM

  • Extemporaneous Speech (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 12:15 PM

  • Graphic Design Promotion (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

  • Human Resource Management (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 12:15 PM

  • Interview Skills (Preliminaries): 8:00 AM – 12:15 PM

  • Prepared Speech (Finals): 8:00 AM – 1:15 PM

  • Presentation Individual (Finals): 8:00 AM – 1:15 PM

  • Presentation Team: 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM

  • Small Business Management Team: 8:00 AM – 4:15 PM

  • Website Design Team: 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM

Saturday, March 15, 2025 (Afternoon)

  • Advanced Interview Skills (Finals): 12:30 PM – 4:45 PM

  • Digital Media Production (Finals): 1:00 PM – 5:15 PM

  • Economic Research Individual (Finals): 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

  • Entrepreneurship (Finals): 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

  • Extemporaneous Speech (Finals): 12:15 PM – 4:30 PM

  • Graphic Design Promotion (Finals): 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

  • Human Resource Management (Finals): 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM

  • Interview Skills (Finals): 12:30 PM – 4:45 PM