For January of 2013

By Hannah Robinson, Reporter

Next FFA Meeting

The next A-C FFA meeting will be January 22^nd in Gym # 2 (Small Gym) at 6:30 P.M. The Ag Challenge will be marshmallow stuffing.

Upcoming Events

Ag Breakfast: The monthly Ag breakfast will be January 4^th at Scramblers at 6:15 A.M. Ag breakfast will be held on the first Friday of every month unless there is no school or in May due to State Convention. If there is a delay due to weather, Ag breakfast will be delayed accordingly.

Agricultural Communications: The Agricultural Communications Contest tests the student’s knowledge and understanding of the various forms of communication within the industry of agriculture. Each chapter can take a team consisting of three members. Each team must submit a 12 page written media plan, and each member takes a journalism quiz, and completes an editing exercise using all proper AP style marks and laws. Members then work on individual practicums such as, a news release, graphic design and social media campaign. Finally, the team presents a project proposal. This years’ team consists of Kayla Luft, Josie Montoney, and Kaylee Reed. The Ag Communications team will be competing January 10^th and the 23^rd, with the state contest being placed on February 16^th. Good luck to this years team.

Upcoming CDEs:

· Greenhand:The Greenhand Quiz Contest tests the students’ knowledge and history of the FFA. The contest consists of a multiple-choice test dealing with past and present information about the FFA. Currently, a chapter may enter as many members as they would like, with the top four scores making-up the teams score. This contest is only open to freshmen. Those freshman participants on the team this year are: Nelson Craycraft, Ashliegh May, Matt Marshall, Kalan Greiner, AJ Wymer, Sydney Stinson, Maddie Helser, Aubrey Meenach, Josie Montoney, Kelsey Adkins, Kassidy McClure, Jessica Russell, Katy Hoyd, and Sonny Drake. This contest will be held after school on January 24^th.

· Ag Sales: The Agricultural Sales Contest tests student knowledge and understanding in the area of Agricutural Sales. This contest includes a multiple-choice general knowledge test, a sales demonstration, and four practicums: telephone skills, advertising and promotion, product display and customer relations. The top two teams in our district proceed to the state level. The district 7 competition will be February 5^th at 3 P.M.

· Job Interview: The Job Interview Contest is a contest designed to test a student's ability to prepare a resume, write a follow-up letter and interview for a mock employment opportunity. Starting with the 1993-1994 school year, the contest was broken into taxonomy categories, allowing a chapter to enter one FFA member in each taxonomy offered by the agricultural education program at that school. Currently, the contest is now broken into 5 areas divided by grade level, including a category for first year junior and seniors. A student must win the district to proceed to the state contest. The Job Interview district competition will be February 5^th.

· Award & Degree Applications: Proficiency, State FFA Degree, and American FFA Degree applications will be due with in this month. If you are interested in applying for one of these you must fill out the proper application, and see Mr. Tilley ASAP.

Past Happenings

Zoo Trip: On December 14^th FFA members who sold 10 or more boxes of fruit had the opportunity to go on a trip to the Columbus Zoo. This is a special activity that the chapter holds to reward these members. The members who went to the Zoo Trip include: Shae Robbins, Susan Householdler, Haley Bigham, A.J. Wymer, Nelson Craycraft, Tyler Frazier, Gabe Conrad, Cordell Young, Maddie Colburn, Mikaila Drake, Sydney Stinson, Desirae Logsdon, Ashley Pritchard, Dylan Mullen, Devon Mullen, Rachel Stoneburner, Carrie Stoneburner, Matt Marshall, Kayla Luft, Morgan Thompson, Nicole Parrish, Jeralyn Hines, Mark Sliker, Libby Hoffman, Keegan O’Hare, Samantha Foster, Shelby Humphreys, Josh Picklesimer, Kaylee Reed, Dylan Wamsley, Josh Metzon, Kassidy McClure, Den Slykerman, Samantha Parsley, Cameron Dickerson, Austin Stai, and Johnny Lemaster.

Community Service:

· Our FFA Chapter helped gather more than 1900 pounds of food from Stoutsville and Amanda for the Chelsea Hedrick Food-Drive. Each year the FFA chapter walks through Amanda, putting bags on the doorsteps asking community members to fill the bags with non-perishable food items if they are able to. In the afternoon the members then traveled to Stoutsville to do the same thing. Then on the scheduled day the FFA members went around Amanda and Stoutsville to collect all of the bags that were filled. The chapter also sent home bags with all of the FFA members asking their families, if they did not live in the villages, to donate food items. The items that were collected were used to put together holiday food baskets for the needy families in the community. The Chelsea Hedrick food drive is very helpful to the families in our community that are in need so the Amanda-Clearcreek FFA is glad to help in any way that we can.

· Several of our FFA Chapter members helped at J.B. Robinson jewelers in the River Valley Mall to sell Teddy Bears for St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital. A-C FFA members we able to sell 43 bears raising over $600. Austin Stai was the top seller out of the participants.

Upcoming Career Development Events…..

For February….

· Agricultural Sales

· Job Interview

· Agricultural & Industrial Diagnostics

· Agricultural Communications

· Public Speaking

o Creed Speaking

o Beginning Prepared Speaking

o Extemporaneous Speaking

o Prepared Speaking

For March….

· Agricultural Mechanics Skills

· Wildlife Management

· Nature Interpretation

· General Livestock

· Meats

· Poultry

· Equine Management