Florida Junior Beta State Convention
Monday, December 4th and Tuesday, December 5th
Universal Double Tree Hotel

For a list of Competitions and guidelines, click here.

Tentative Schedule of Events

Monday, December 4th

9:00 AM -- Arrival and check-in with sponsors in the Main Ballroom

9:45 AM -- Speech Comptetion; Math Competition

10:00 - 11:00 AM -- Check-in Arts & Crafts, Banners & Scrapbooks, and Living Literature Setup

10:00 AM -- Songfest Preliminaries followed by Group Talent Preliminaries

10:30 AM -- Quiz Bowl Preliminaries

11:00 AM -- Arts & Crafts, Banners, & Scrapbooks Judging

11:30 AM -- Spelling Competition

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM -- Lunch on your own

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM -- First General Session: Key note speaker, Top 5 Group Talent Competition, Introduction of State Candidates

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM -- Living Literature Museum Competition (no viewing at this time)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM -- Science Competition; Social Studies Competition

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM -- Battle of the Books Competition; Arts & Crafts, Banner, & Scrapbook Viewing; Special Talent Preliminaries

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM -- Poster Competition

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM -- Viewing of Living Literature Museum

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM -- dinner on your own / club meeting

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM -- Beta Mixer (must wear name tag and semi-formal attire)

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Tuesday, December 5th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM -- Quiz Bowl Finals (only finalists)

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM -- View Arts & Crafts

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM -- Pick up Arts & Crafts

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM -- Second General Session; Technology Winner Presentation; Campaign Speeches & Skits; Elections; Special Talent Competition (Top 8); Convention Songfest (Top 3); Speech by Winner of Speech Competition

11:45 AM - 1:30 PM -- Third General Session; Installation of Officers; Awards; Closing Remarks; Adjournment by new State President