Monthly FFA Meeting

January’s monthly FFA Meeting will be held on January 24th in the Ag. Center at 7:00 P.M. The Ag Challenge will be Marshmallow Stuffing. The Chapter FFA Degrees will be presented to those that have earned it.

Ag Breakfast

Ag Breakfast for January 6th will be held at Tee Jaye’s at 6:15 A.M.

Greenhand FFA Degrees

The Greenhand FFA Degree is the first degree a member can receive. We had 38 freshmen receive their degree this year. They are now working toward their Chapter degrees. This years Greenhand FFA Degrees recipients are: Cody Blackburn, Evan Brubach, David Creameans, Jordan Hampsire, Seth Hollett, Ricky Hutchinson, A.J. Johnson, Katie Krile, Tiffany Otey, Dustin Riffle, Katerina Sharp, Ben Slykerman, Jessica Strittmatter, Stephen Templeton, Mikaela Bauer, Devan Boyer, Courtney Collins, Michael Geleztke, Kaytlynn Jenkins, D’Marqus Lucio-Davis, Cordell Patterson, Codi Smith, Rachel Stoneburner, Travis Ball, Cheyenne Baughman, Seth Carpenter, Doug Copas, Tyelar Garee, Jacquelyn Gibson, Nakia Herron, Trenton Hinerman, Caleb Horn, Janelle James, Adrian Osborn, Kaylee Rickly, Josh Shumaker, Budd Norris and Victoria Sisler.

February Activities

Officer Books - due on February 1st Officer Interviews - February 2nd

Up Coming CDE Contests

Ag Sales CDE

The Agricultural Sales Contest tests students knowledge and understanding in the area of Agricultural 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 contest has progressed from a three member team to a four member team during the 1996-1997 school year. Those who have signed up are: Emily Cordle, Alex Norris, Nick Brumfield, John Miller, Daniel Quincel and Sierra Jepsen. If any other members are interested in this contest need to sign up ASAP. The District Ag Sales CDE will be held at Lancaster H.S. on Wednesday, February 9th at 3:00 P.M.

Job Interview CDE

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. Staring 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 contest will be held on Wednesday, February 9th at Lancaster H.S at 3:00 P.M. The following members have signed up: Freshman - DJ Copas and Ben Slykerman, Sophomore - Nick Brumfield, Juniors - Caitlin Robinson, Jenna Ferguson and Sierra Jepsen and Senior - Daniel Quincel. There is also a category for first year members as a Junior or Senior, so if anyone is interested it this contest sign up ASAP.

Public Speaking CDE

There are currently 4 public speaking contests offered by the Ohio FFA Association. Creed Speaking is available only to freshmen who recite the FFA Creed and answer questions about the Creed. Beginning Prepared is geared mostly for sophomores who present 5 to 7 minute speech on an agricultural topic. The Extemporaneous Speaking contest is open to all 4 grade levels. Extemporaneous speakers draw a agricultural topic and are given 30 minutes to develop a 4 to 6 speech from materials they have brought with them and their own personal knowledge. The Prepared Speaking contest, often referred to as ‘Senior Prepared’, is pen to members in all 4 grade levels, but generally involves junior and senior members who present a 6 to 8 minute prepared speech. The members who have signed up are: Creed - Austin Johnson, Kat Sharp, Katie Krile and Ben Slykerman, Beginning Prepared - Nick Brumfield, Extemporaneous - Caitlin Robinson and Prepared - Sierra Jepsen. If any member is interested in this contest area needs to sign up ASAP.

State & American FFA Degrees/Proficiency Applications Due

All State and American FFA Degree applications are due January 21st. Anyone that is interested in receiving there State or American Degrees needs to contact Mr. Tilley ASAP.

State Ag Communications CDE

The Amanda-Clearcreek FFA Ag. Communications team placed second in the state. This is one of the hardest contest the FFA has to offer. The team must present a 15 minute power point presentation, an eight page written project proposal with accompanying media materials, an editing exercise using the proper AP style editing marks and a written test on journalism knowledge. In addition each member also has to complete their own individual practicum exercise consisting if the following; news writing, news release, 2-minute radio broadcast, 2-page graphic design and a 3-page web design layout. Congratulations to this years team: Alex Norris, Nick Brumfield, Sierra Jepsen, Allyson Davis and Madison Darrnell on representing our FFA chapter!

Fruit Sale

The fruit sale is the largest fundraiser our FFA chapter has and it pays for the majority of activities, such as field trips, bus fuel and awards. As you can see this is a very important fundraiser that our chapter depends on. The year the Amanda-Clearcreek FFA chapter sold about 1940 box/baskets of fruit. This is a chapter record and we would like to say thanks to all of you that purchased fruit this year.

State Officer Leadership Night

For the last 10 year the Amanda-Clearcreek FFA chapter has hosted the State Officer Leadership Night. The Leadership Night was held on Wednesday December 1st at 6:00 P.M. There were 11 FFA chapters that attended from our district. From our chapter there were 46 members that attended. The State FFA Officers lead all of the sessions. The theme for Leadership Night was Lead Me, Lead You and Lead Us. There were three sessions that the FFA members participated in each session was about Lead Me, Lead You and Lead Us.

Lead Me was about what kind of a lead we were as an individual. Lead You was about how we had to work as a team and lead others. Lead Us was about leading your team mate because in the activity there were two people the were blind and two people that could not talk. Those people relied on the team leader that could talk to tell them what to do and where to go.

After the three sessions there were cold cut sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks that were provided by the Amanda-Clearcreek FFA chapter. Our chapter would like to thank all of the State Officers that put on this Leadership Night. Now of this would have been possible without them.

By: A-C FFA Reporter

Andrea Hollett