Incoming LHS sophomore Sydney Kuehne won a silver medal at the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. in early July. It’s a stunning achievement for someone who began the speech project as a freshman, and won a $4000 Texas Tech scholarship in the state contest. Think of the competition: Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a national Career and Technical Student Organization; 7,700 of its student leaders, members and advisers travelled to the Walter E.