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Students from seven area high schools converged on a room Wednesday morning at Minot State University to see who could put on the best PowerPoint presentation.

The competition was part of the university's 12th annual Technology Day, put on by business education students at MSU.

Caleb Kester, a senior from Des Lacs-Burlington High School, said he and his classmates were given about an hour and a half to create a PowerPoint presentation on an assigned topic. The Des Lacs-Burlington students were working on a presentation about the history department at the university.

Other high school teams came from Kenmare, Max, Sawyer, Surrey, TGU-Granville, and Underwood. Most students are enrolled in business classes at their high schools.

Kester said students at his school have been heavily involved in learning different technology, thanks to a technology grant the school got a few years ago. He and his team were doing their best to win the competition.

Students also competed individually in areas such as accounting, business law, desktop publishing, document production, business principles, spreadsheet applications and Web page design.

Jared Engh, from Sherwood, an MSU business education student helping to supervise the event, said organizing the competition gave the university students experience working with different kids and with the competition. Business and Technology faculty and Phi Beta Lambda members also helped supervise the event.