Reflection Paper On FFA

If you decide to become one you must go through an application and list why you think you should be an officer. After all applications are reviewed the teacher will pick the eight best students for the roles. From then the other members will get to vote from the eight picked on which office they will go to for the school year. Your role as a Chapter officer is to lead your FFA association at school. To gain these leadership skills you must attend the proper workshops at the State Conventions in the summer before you start as an officer. Also, to be a part of the officer team you must have participated in a CDE event. CDE stands for Career Development Event. CDE events are designed to help prepare FFA members for careers in agriculture. Even if you are not going into a career in agriculture it’s a fun set of competitions to participate in. The officer team is also the team that puts together all events such as meetings and banquets. At the end of the year each officer will get a pin with the office they held that year to stick on their jackets serving as a completion to the officer

Every part of FFA has a fundamental exercise. The association can show youthful individuals assorted variety, advertising, and essential relational abilities. Although there are numerous misguided judgments about FFA, it is essential to recognize the valuable components of the affiliation.

FBLA membership has benefitted me because I can truly say it led me to my career choice. Junior year I had the opportunity to participate in the SBE Program at the Ste. Genevieve Care Center. By being a part of this program, I was required to join FBLA. Although FBLA was an organization I had wanted to join for a while, I needed a push to get involved in the club. Being involved in this club was one of the greatest decisions I have made during my high school career. My first year in the organization, I competed in the straight to state event, Social Media Campaign. Due to this participation, I attended the District Leadership Conference where I was a timekeeper and the State Leadership Conference, where my partner and I presented our project. The State Leadership Conference was a memorable event as it was different than any other conference I had attended before. That year I also served on multiple committees and assisted in the decorating of the Senior Citizen’s Christmas Dinner.

They changed me from a very self-conscious timid girl into the bubbly leader that I am today. Through these two organizations I was able to see the impact that agriculture has. Those working in an agriculture field are feeding and providing for our world today. Agriculture also shows our youth the importance of hard work and is shaping our future leaders, it has changed me and I know that it is continuing to change others everyday.

The FFA is definetly one of the younger organizations in the U.S. But, throughout the last ten years, it has delivered a tremendous impact to students, teachers, and the nation along with it’s future.

However, I looked back to actually reflect what could make me happy in life and realized I did not need to go far in foreign countries to make a difference in the world. This realization hit me when my environmental science teacher suggested the class to volunteer and help plant a prairie by the Telge science center. Automatically, I was hooked. I brought my sisters along and planted near the science center where the district placed FFA livestock shows. Incidentally, I was surprised to make a difference to a place I was familiar to and all I had to do was open myself to helping others. As an agricultural teacher, I could continue learning over the several breeds of livestock, modern technology, beneficial insects and plants within the environment, because the proximity of nature will always be around me. I didn’t even need to leave the state or even the district to make scientific and environmental

My favorite part of being a member was the conventions and leadership conferences. The conferences are upbeat and attention grabbing with great speakers. The first convention I attended I was amazed at the loud music, dancing and the awesome energy I felt. The enviroment gave me the feeling that this is where I belong and this is what I want to do as a career. The FFA motto is "Doing to learn, learning to do. Earning to live, living to serve". That means to learn new things and use them in everyday life. FFA also builds up the confidence in students and in their work through speaking events, making presentations, and helping the community.

In the summer of 2017, I lost my father to a tragic farming accident. I was devastated, I felt as if my life could not continue, although I had to push through because I could not take a year off from college. My father was my inspiration to pursuing an education in agriculture. From a young age, he taught to garden and to work with animals. I loved planting the seeds in the ground and watching them grow and enjoying the fresh crops on our table.Through the knowledge, my father gave me I learned the importance of farming and ranching after all people will always need to eat. Later, my skills led me to become an involved member and officer in FFA at Chelan High school. Chelan FFA helped me gain confidence in myself and further opened my eyes

FFA. Future Farmers of America. These four words mean more than cows and plows. It's leadership skills. It's growing as an individual. It's becoming the person you thought wouldn't come of yourself. When you see the national blue and corn gold, (the official colors of FFA) you feel a sense of being welcomed. This organization is not just a group of farm kids that wear jeans and boots

That really meant a lot to me, so after I was elected I wanted to make sure I did everything right. One of my first challenges was actually deciding whether or not to go to the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Our FFA goes on that trip every other year. I went to the last National Convention my freshman year just for fun, but this year I felt that I had a duty to go along and be a leader for our chapter by being involved. The problem is, last year I was on the varsity volleyball team. National Convention was at the same time that regional volleyball games were starting. I didn’t know what to choose – the volleyball team that I loved and had been committed to for three months already, or the organization that chose me to be their leader? I really didn’t know what to do. I finally chose to go with the FFA to Indianapolis. It would give me a chance to practice my leadership skills and get to know our FFA chapter better. I still felt like I was letting my team and coach down, but I felt more committed to FFA.

At the end of my Junior year I was elected to be FFA Chapter President my Senior year, immediately we started having officer meetings to decide how we could best serve our members, school, and community. I started new community service projects such as getting a local farm to donate pumpkins to the FFA, the FFA members then helped the special education students paint the pumpkins for Halloween. I also started a project where the FFA chapter painted Christmas ornaments shaped like cows and donated them to the residents of the local nursing home. The chapter now plans to make these events that I implemented annual

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The first thing I did this summer was go on a trip to Washington D.C. with the FFA. It was an awesome experience. I was able to see most of the monuments and some museums. You could live in Washington D.C. your whole life and still not see everything there. While I was there I was able to meet so many awesome people from all over the U.S. I made so many friends that I still keep in touch with today. I’ve been able to do so many things within the FFA

In my first year as a Freshman FFA member I had no idea what to expect in the FFA, yet I was challenged and excited to participate because I saw how much the organization had changed my brother. I was driven to be the first one to say the FFA creed to my advisor on the first day of school, and who knew this personal drive was just the beginning of my FFA career and the endless opportunities provided to me in the past three years. As a freshman I was elected a Greenhand officer and was able to attend my first National FFA Convention. I was taken under my brother’s wing, and he was able to show me the pathways and his passion for the FFA, thus I began to love the organization more and more as the year progressed. My Freshman year I tried out

I was also involved for three and a half years in a student government club on campus. In this club I learned many life lessons. One of which was the value of hard work. I was one of the few people that organized the Junior/Senior Prom of 2000. My responsibilities included planning corranation, buying and organizing decorations, planning the busing schedule, booking the photographers, fundraising, ect. This taught me about hard work. But the best part of it was going to Prom knowing I was one of the only reasons that it happened.