BETA wins at Regional Leadership Event

Posted on 10/16/2025

The Tunstall High School BETA Club took 11 students to compete in a variety of leadership events at the National BETA Leadership Conference in Concord, NC, held October 13–14. The team earned top placements and will advance to compete at the national level next June in Nashville, Tennessee.

All the World Is a Stage:
Each club was tasked with taking a children’s story or song and rewriting it to include the BETA pillars—character, service, leadership, and achievement. Tunstall’s group reimagined the “un-birthday” party scene from Alice in Wonderland into an “un-BETA party,” celebrating how the pillars are demonstrated every day, not just on Founder’s Day.

Being Better BETAs (Ethical Dilemma):
The team faced an ethical dilemma involving a friend who shoplifted a shirt needed for a job to help her family in financial distress. Using Clemson University’s STAR ethical decision-making model, students developed a thoughtful solution and tested their decision through an ethics matrix.

Collab Connection:
Teams were challenged with a series of problem-solving tasks and scored on their teamwork, communication, and creativity under pressure.

BETA Blitz (Marketing):
For this event, students designed a marketable item that fit the convention’s theme, Wired for Success. The Tunstall team presented a creative t-shirt design inspired by Monster Energy’s branding concept.

Sponsors Tara Mills and Jennifer Watson