My Dream Of Becoming FFA

Growing up, I have been an individual who has pushed myself beyond the minimum requirements in order to succeed. In high school I excelled in both academics and athletics. I graduated in the top 10% of my class and lettered in hockey and tennis my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I worked hard and put in extra time in order to set myself apart from others. Succeeding in both school and athletics made me a responsible, reliable, and an organized individual. These experiences made me a versatile individual and have given me a work ethic that has benefited me with my academics in college and with my work and volunteer experiences.

My whole life I have been invested in doing what I love, focusing on my true passions, as well as finding new ones. I have been very involved in my high school, and have been lucky enough to be a part of multiple clubs and activities. Without these activities, my high school experience and life would be a lot different. I have been an active drama club member, a part of ‘Bottlecappers,’ a club advocating anti-drug, alcohol, and bullying to younger students in my district, and many other community service opportunities. I am lucky to have the opportunity to be in these activities, as they have shaped me to be the young adult I am today.

Being a part of FFA has completely changed the course of my life. It is because of this amazing organization that I have learned to be service minded. Helping others has become the biggest goal I want to achieve in my lifetime. I want to leave a mark on the world and change it for the better. With the experience I have gained so far, an imminent change I want to make is to feed the world population by the year 2050. In 2050 the USDA reports that the agricultural industry will not be able to provide enough food to sustain the predicted world population of 9.7 billion people. This would mean potentially millions of people would become food insecure and not have adequate availability to a food supply to maintain a healthy diet. This is a very

I’m a smart, hardworking, determined, courageous, and generous individual. Unfortunately, during my 9th-grade year at Hyde Leadership Charter School, I didn’t display these characteristics. I faced challenges such as missing class time because I was in the Dean’s Area and serving detention. But I am a student who wants to grow and become a great leader. Over the summer I figured out that there was no way I could be both a leader and a troublemaker, so I decided to make a change. I decided to hang out with other people, leaving my old group of friends behind. I’ve found a group of friends that could support me, help me grow, and helped me

Throughout my freshman year at Notre Dame Preparatory I have participated in many new activities that have allowed me to grow in character, leadership, and service. Examples of such activities include school athletics, membership in the United States Civil Air Patrol, and ushering at my Catholic parish. Through school athletics I have not only grown in my athletic ability in the sports of track and cross country, but I have grown in my ability to move through adversity and challenges. In addition to my participation in school sports I joined the United States Air Force Auxiliary, the Civil Air Patrol. Through Civil Air Patrol I have grown tremendously through classes every week, a week long training

Ever since my elementary years, I have taken my education and the work I do seriously. My dedication to the qualities of scholarship, character, leadership, and service have helped me during my high school experience as high school was a eye-opener for a young girl with big dreams. A quote that is to mind when I think about what dedication to scholarship and character means to me is one by St. Jerome; “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.” I have always gone past the point that is the best I can do in my academics accomplishments, building my character, being a leader, and helping others. I take pride in the fact that I work hard, push myself, and excel

My parents mainly wanted me to interact with the other kids during that stage in my life I did not talk much. Consequently, their plans did not work out, but then I wound up leaving for another church that was closer in distance. Then my parent puts us in the girl scouts, so we could interact with kids out own and my father wanted us to learn about leadership at an early age. Before they discontinued the Girl Scout’s in my community, I wound up traveling to with them and went to the museum of the founder of the girl scouts and I stayed with the troop until I was 10 years old. Another discourse community I joined was the children’s praise dance team and choir at the age of 7 years old. There were two reasons why I joined these communities. First reason, my parents suggested to be involved in some activities. And the second reason, a hefty portion of my family had some type of Fine art background; meaning they are very gifted and most of them made a career out of it. I wanted to find out if any of these activities were going to suit my interests, but a few years later I wound up quitting the dance team. Let’s just say it was not my cup of tea. Later, when I turned 10 years old I joined my school choir, hoping that I would at least get better, and the following year I joined my school band. But after a few years, I rounded up not joining the choir in high school

I am dedicated to staying involved in many clubs and programs in my school. Right now I am currently in baseball, choir, Science National Honor Society, National Honor Society, Ruckus and Rowdy, student council, and in our school musical production, Footloose, as a main acting role. My most prominent talents are in baseball and choir. I have been in baseball since I was 3 years old and have always been an athletic kid compared to my peers. I continue to practice and try my best in baseball and despite always trying new sports and activities, I have never skipped a baseball season. Baseball has taught me the importance of teamwork, taking constructive criticism, respect for coaches and teammates, and persistence in improving. In the past two

I have been a member of the Albert Lea FFA for five years. I have taken just about every opportunity to come my way from this program. I have participated in dairy cattle evaluation, general livestock, meat evaluation, and small animal care contests in the last 5 years. I attended Greenhand day, as well as SGLC and SLCCL the last three summers. I am proud to say I have been the top fruit sale seller the last 3 years as well. My proudest moments in FFA have been while serving as Historian in 2014 and President in 2015-2016. I led almost all of our club's activities as our advisor was on health leave. I have attended State and National Convention for 3 years also. I worked and organized our county fair food stand, while exhibiting animals at

As a sophomore now I often look back on how I got here. Aside from the apparent support of loving family and friends, other factors aided in the progression of me becoming a growing leader and overall an adult. In middle school and high school my roles in student council, girl scouts, captain on several sports teams and even management holding a job too have shaped me. My more recent influences are linked directly to my decision to join a sorority last year at West Chester University, that sorority being Zeta Tau Alpha.

Last school year, I joined FFA. I mainly joined it to get out of band since my parents wouldn't let me leave the band unless I joined another extra-curricular activity. I had a choice to make, it was either I join FFA and try something new, or I suffer from the band the rest of high school. I believe I made the right choice since FFA has been an exciting experience. I have been working hard to keep my birds alive and stay on top of my schoolwork, but my parents can't see it. With all this hard work that has been put in, I felt underappreciated and given too many chores.

FFA has made a huge difference in my life. It has helped establish my agriculture background , provided me with community involvement, and taught me the basics to agriculture. FFA has helped influence my decision to study agriculture in College as well. Through my experiences in FFA I have grown better in my communication and public speaking skills and opened up many opportunities for myself with agriculture related organizations and companies. For example, FFA has brought me closer to my county Farm Bureau organization, where I dedicate a lot of my time helping to prepare community events, meetings and sessions. I also help the Farm Bureau execute these proceedings effectively and efficiently. companies that FFA has introduced me to are locations

Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve. This is the motto of the very organization that I hold very close to me, and that has helped me make many memories in the process of being part of it. The FFA program started in the year of 1920 when a man named Henry Groseclose from Blacksburg, Virginia made the Future Farmers of Virginia: many states soon followed his lead and created their own Farming type groups (Confer pg1). In 1928, 18 states made the Future Farmers of America (Confer pg1). The colors of national blue and corn gold were adopted as the official FFA colors in the year of 1929 (Confer pg 1), and are still used today. In the year of 1933, Fredericktown, Ohio created the blue corduroy jacket with the FFA emblem on the back (Confer pg 1) that is part of the official dress of the FFA today. On a side note with the last fact I personally am very honored to be part of the chapter that created the FFA jacket and where it proudly every time I put it on. In the year of 1959, the FFA headquarters was established in the town of Alexandria, Virginia (Confer pg 2). Come 1969, women were allowed to join the FFA (Confer pg 2).

Throughout my high school years I have achieved more than I thought I ever could. I began to get involved with the Evergreen FFA due to my family background of farming. As I got more involved I decided to run for an office and today I am president of the Evergreen FFA and a State Degree recipient. One thing I love about my experience in FFA is getting to help people in need and making our community a better place through all of the community service that we do. For example we go to christmas cheer to help local people in need during the holiday season. We also collect can food items for thanksgiving dinners for the less fortunate in the area.

All your life you’ve dreamed big, but would your dream turn into reality? Imagine someone other than yourself putting it in your head what you're set out to be in life. Highschool football was everything to me. I've taken many sacrifices such as quitting my job; picking up unnecessary classes, and focusing on football it's self instead of other important responsibilities. These three things set me back, regrettably I became an athlete instead of a student athlete. With no desire to do anything else in life I always wondered when this is over what's next?