The skills of Immokalee High School’s Beta Club were on display at the 82^nd Florida State Beta Convention. A total of 67 students traveled from Immokalee to Kissimmee, Florida, to compete for various state titles involving academics, performing arts, leadership, and creativity. The Club had a successful showing and came back with several group and individual accomplishments as follows:

First Place

• Campaign Skit
• Living Literature – This competition provides an opportunity for students to present an interpretation of a scene from a work of literature, which is recreated through costumes, scenery, and props. 
• Club Trading Pin – This competition offers a fun and innovative way to represent a club’s achievement, character, and leadership by creating a one-of-a-kind Club Trading Pin for judging.
• Biomedical Health Science (9^th Grade) – Ivan Cruz Soriano
• Social Studies (9^th Grade) – Cynthia De Santiago
• Spelling Bee – Sierra Martinez
• Spanish (10^th Grade) – Saidee Rincon

Second Place

• Performing Arts-Large Group
• Performing Arts-Solo Duo Trio-Variety Act – Saidee Rincon/Filberto Garcia
• Social Studies (12^th Grade) – Lissett Hernandez
• Science (10^th Grade) – Jasmine Avalos
• Biomedical Health Science (10^th Grade) – Kayla Reyes

Third Place

• Service Learning Showcase – This competition showcases service learning, creativity, innovation, and artistic design by allowing each club to submit one, free-standing trifold board that features the club’s service projects from throughout the year.
• Scrapbook – Designed to encourage club pride, creativity, and artistic design, the Scrapbook competition features a collection of photographs, newspaper articles, media posts, correspondence, and memorabilia that displays the club’s service, membership, and activities for the school year.
• Engineering – In this competition, teams are given a prompt and have to engineer an invention using items from a specified list, which includes writing an explanation to communicate the elements of the invention and creative concepts.
• Spanish (12^th Grade) – Cristal Gonzalez

In addition to the awards mentioned above, the Club also received a Service Project Award; Larry Butler, Isaiah Casillas, Richard Peralez, Saidee Rincon, Naomie Sylvester, and Genesis Turrubiartez were named "Premier Performers"; Cristal Gonzalez and Lissett Hernandez received Florida Senior Beta Scholarships; and Jada Holloway was elected Florida's Beta Secretary.

A big thank you goes to the Club’s sponsors—Linda Ayer, Maekeda Binns, Fred Rimmler, and Eliud Trejo—who continue to provide guidance and support as these students strive for success.

Beta is a national organization that emphasizes Academic Achievement, Character, Leadership, and Service while providing opportunities and experiences which impact schools and communities across the world. For more information on Beta, visit https://www.betaclub.org/.