z 2010-2011 Officer Teamz

On February 8th the FFA Chapter elected the new officer team. Nine members were eligible, but only seven could be elected. The new officer team consist of: President- Aaron Miller, Vice President- Dan Quincel, Secretary- Hannah Chenetski, Treasurer- Nate Seitz, Reporter- Andrea Hollett, Sentinel- Alex Norris and Student Advisor- Kayla Porter. Congratulations to the 2010-2011 officer team!

*March FFA Meeting*

Monday March 15th 2010

The meeting will be held in the Ag. Center at 7:00 P.M. The Ag. Challenge will be the Scavenger Hunt.

National FFA Week

This years FFA week was a little different from last year. This year we had Blue & Gold day on Tuesday the 23rd, 8th grade Awareness, Truck and Tractor day on Wednesday the 24th, FFA Shirt day on Thursday the 25th and FFA Jacket and Official Dress day on Friday the 26th. With all of these numerous activities the FFA did, the officer team, Mr. Tilley and Mr. Sharp always make time to give a teacher appreciation lunch on Friday.

Proficiency Awards

Proficiency Awards are all based on their SAE books and their individual records. This is all for the state so you have to answer numerous questions on your project and what all you have to do. Proficiency Awards take a large amount of work and time. For this award you have to fill out a five to six pages with information about your SAE projects, provide six pictures with captions and insert the costs, money earned, etc. correctly so that it matches up with your book. Members who participated this year was: Chance Holbrook, Tyler Genders, Aaron Miller, Brittany Stevens, Kaleb Miller, Cheyenne Jepsen, Tyler Van Horn and Nate Seitz. The results will be available in April to the Chapter.

National Farm Machinery Show

The Top Fall Fundraiser Trip is for those members who sold 25 boxes/baskets of fruit and the top 2 flower bulb sales people. This year they visited the Air Force Museum in Dayton, National Farm Machinery show, the Truck and Tractor pulls and the Jungle Jims International Store. The members that attended this year include: Teran Pinkstock, Eddie Johnson, Brittany Stevens, Andrea Hollett, John Miller, Aaron Miller, Shala O’Hare, Cheyenne Jepsen, Sierra Jepsen, Kelsie Sharp, Brandon Bresler, Nate Seitz, Becca Bentz, Colleen Trapp, Aundrea Wymer, Allison Davis, Sabrina Friend and Reba Hyme. Chaperons include: Mr. Sharp, Mr. Tilley, Mr. Joel Spires (A-C FFA Alumni member), Mrs. Regina Bresler, Mr. Mike Miller, Mrs. Treba Stevens and Mrs. LouAnn Hyme. The chapter would like to thank the chaperons for making this trip possible.

District 7 Officer Training

All officers and assistant officers will be going to District 7 Officer Training at Fairfield Union H.S. There they will break-up into our different offices and they will learn the leadership it takes to be a good officer. They will also learn about their respective office.

District Agricultural Mechanics Skills

Agricultural Mechanics Skills contest is purely a hands on contest; there is no written test. It can involve anything from wood working in a shop to welding to working on engines. Each school brings a station, so the number of stations each year can vary. The members who are participating this year are: Nate Seitz, Scott Loudermilk and John Miller. The district contest will be held on March 9th at Teays Valley H.S.

CDE Contests

The following CDE teams are preparing for their respective state contest.

Dairy Cattle include: Brittany Stevens, Ellie Johnson, Aidan Willis, Jenni Miller, Matt Wamsley, Zach Underhill and Sam Meenach.

Wildlife Management: Tyler Genders, Eddie Johnson, Matt Lamb, Kaleb Miller, Aaron Miller, Ryan Mundy, Hunter Ricketts, Kyle Klinger, Dan Quincel and Alex Norris.

Nature Interpretation: Mike Hite, Emily Cordle, Ike Sowers, Scott Loudermilk, Seth Johnson and Nick Brumfield.

Equine Management: Emily Morgan, Madison Ball, Evin Tipple, Reba Hyme, Caitlin Robinson, Kiowa Bussert, Cody Epley, Jauni Stalder and Kendra Lama.

General Livestock: Tyler Van Horn, Colleen Trapp, Becca Bentz, Chance Holbrook, Kelsie Sharp and Cheyenne Jepsen.

For Dairy Cattle, Nature Interpretation and Wildlife Management CDEs, their online test will be March 10th after school. The Equine Management CDE team will take their online test on March 11th after school. For all of these CDEs, the state contest will be on March 27th starting at 9:00 A.M.

Made For Excellence Conference

This year MFE was once again held at Union Local H.S on February 27-28, 2010. MFE is an overnight leadership conference. During the day, students have sessions to attend where there are guest presenters, but at night members stay up all night and play games. This year there was a dance before the tournaments. Tournaments that were held were: volleyball and euchre. This year at MFE, the Union Local FFA Alumni tried something new as they had blow-up games for all of the students to play in and some of the teachers too! We had a total of 26 students attend this year, which is also a chapter record: Nick Brumfield, Dusty Cornell, Samantha Thompson, Ryan Kelley, Becca Bentz, Aaron Miller, John Miller, Alex Norris, Colleen Trapp, Nate Seitz, Josh Watkins, Dan Quincel, Riley Horn, Josh Adams, Amber Foreman, Seth Sayre, Jenni Miller, Emily Cordle, Jauni Stalder, Ellie Johnson, Caitlin Robinson, Kylea Schlosser, Sierra Jepsen, Cheyenne Jepsen, Jocab White and Mike Hite.

Public Speaking

The District 7 Public Speaking contest was hosted by our chapter this year at the Amanda-Clearcreek H.S on February 25th . There were four categories for the individual areas for the contest: Creed, Beginning Prepared, Extemporaneous, and Prepared. Each county can only bring their top two for Beginning Prepared, Extemporaneous and Prepared and top three for Creed. This year we had great participation with: Creed - Nick Brumfield, Beginning Prepared - Sierra Jepsen and Extemporaneous - Emily Morgan. Nick placed 5th in Creed Speaking, which is the highest any member has placed in Creed Speaking in many years. Sierra placed 1st and Emily placed 2nd, which allows both of them to move on to the State Preliminary contest at Ohio State University on March 20th. Congratulations to everyone and good luck to Sierra and Emily! This is the first time in chapter history that our chapter had two members advance to the State Preliminary in the same year.

Agricultural and Industrial Diagnostics CDE Results

For this contest, the team has to be able to find problems on a tractor and fix them. It can consist of 3 to 6 tractors with 2 problems each. The team must be 1st to proceed to the state level. This contest used to be known as the Tractor Troubleshooting CDE. This year, the the chapter members that participated in it were Nate Seitz and John Miller. They placed 2nd in District 7, the highest ever the chapter has ever placed in this CDE.

By A-C Reporter

Andrea Hollett