What are Chapter Projects?
Chapter projects are year-long events where FBLA members can gain practical business skills and knowledge in a more hands-on way than regular competitive events. For chapter projects, Lynbrook FBLA will partner up with an organization/business and help them with something they need. Through this process, participants get exposed to how real businesses and organizations run. There are multiple ways to get involved with chapter projects, such as being an officer or just being an active participant. There are three chapter projects Lynbrook FBLA competes in: American Enterprise Project, Community Service Project, and Partnership with Business Project.
2024 Chapter Projects Recap
Our teams will be competing at SLC in April!
American Enterprise Project
The American Enterprise Project Team:
Project Chair: Yajat Kiran
Project Members: Harshini Viswanathan, Akash Anand, Raghav Shrivastava, Varun Bhuta
This year’s American Enterprise Project, Project Teach, had the focus of strengthening our local American enterprise system by helping bridge the digital divide and increasing teenagers’ digital skills and entrepreneurial knowledge.To do this, the team organized events such as speaker sessions with Jitendra Mohan, founder of Astera Labs, to inspire students with real-world entrepreneurial insights. To further engage the community, the team also set up a blog on Medium promoted articles on social media to educate teenagers on digital literacy, entrepreneurship, and the evolving role of technology in business. To focus on bridging the digital divide, the team hosted a week-long tech drive and donated received items to Zero Waste Silicon Valley.
The AEP team speaks to FBLA about concepts relating to business enterprise.
Jitendra Mohan, founder of Astera Labs, speaks to Lynbrook FBLA about entrepreneurship.
Learn more about this year's AEP project through their Instagram.
Community Service Project
The Community Service Project Team:
Project Chair: Ishan Goyal
Vice-Chairs: Joyce Feng and Katherine Cui
Secretary: Elizabeth Cheng
Treasurer: Pranay Tiru
Public Relations: Angela Chung
Lynbrook FBLA members at senior spirit day wearing green, the color of BAOA.
CSP + Artreach collab to draw chalk art at Lynbrook
This year’s Community Service Project had the goal of promoting senior wellbeing and awareness in the local community. The CSP team worked closely with Bay Area Older Adults (BAOA), a nonprofit that had the same goal, throughout the project. The project team enhanced BAOA’s website to make it more mobile-friendly and more accessible by disabled folks and had a tabling event at Bascom Branch Library to promote BAOA and its services. The project also had an awareness week in January featuring three events: a spirit day, a speaker event with BAOA’s founder Dr. Ferguson, and a senior field trip itinerary workshop. In addition, the project facilitated Valentine’s day card writing for lonely seniors.
Overall, the team’s efforts led to a 20% membership increase for BAOA and 100% chapter active member involvement. The project was recognized by multiple local government officials and Lynbrook principal Maria Jackson.
Partnership With Business Project
This year’s Partnership with Business Project worked with Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to tackling homelessness and hunger in the community. The PWB team started off the year by holding a canned food drive for SCS’ teen clients. The team also conducted a double bagging activity, in which multiple hours were put into creating over 800 double bags. To educate Lynbrook FBLA about SCS’s mission and services, SCS’ Community Navigator Janette Brambila came to Lynbrook to speak.
The Partnership With Business Project Team:
Project Chair: Eric Zhang
Vice-Chairs: Pranav Raj and Kaylin Li
Secretary: Edward Xiong
Treasurer: Ammar Khan
Overall, the project impacted about 50 families through its canned food drive and another 3200 through its double-bagging activity. The project was recognized by multiple local government officials and featured on many of SCS’s social media posts.