This week, 5 students earned their FFA State Degrees: Kimberly Andrew, Esmeralda Luque, Jacob Flaherty, Marina Portillo, and Melissa Simental. This is a big deal for our school and shout out to Katy Nieblas and Cassandra Soberno for working with our #BulldogSTRONG FFA students.
A Few Requirements for a State Degree:
• active member of the FFA for at least two years
• worked for a minimum of 500 hours, in excess of scheduled class time, on his/her Supervised Agricultural Experience must have earned by his/her own efforts from an agricultural enterprise or other agriculturally-related work and deposited in a bank or otherwise productively invested at least $1,000.00
• Demonstrate leadership ability by performing ten procedures of parliamentary law OR demonstrate proficiency in parliamentary law as evidenced by passing a written examination prepared and administered by the local agriculture instructor; giving a six-minute speech OR lead a group discussion for forty-minutes on a topic relating to agriculture or the FFA; serving as an officer, committee chairperson, or participating member of a committee; participating in at least five distinctly different FFA activities at the chapter level; participating in at least two distinctly different non-FFA school activities which are conducted outside of normal classtime; participating in activities for community improvement as evidenced by participating in at least two distinctly different activities, to the extent of spending at least 25 hours of personal time, which seek to serve and/or improve the quality of life in the local community; and being familiar with the provisions of the constitution of the State Association and National FFA Organization as certified by the local FFA advisor.
• worked for a minimum of 500 hours, in excess of scheduled class time, on his/her Supervised Agricultural Experience must have earned by his/her own efforts from an agricultural enterprise or other agriculturally-related work and deposited in a bank or otherwise productively invested at least $1,000.00
• Demonstrate leadership ability by performing ten procedures of parliamentary law OR demonstrate proficiency in parliamentary law as evidenced by passing a written examination prepared and administered by the local agriculture instructor; giving a six-minute speech OR lead a group discussion for forty-minutes on a topic relating to agriculture or the FFA; serving as an officer, committee chairperson, or participating member of a committee; participating in at least five distinctly different FFA activities at the chapter level; participating in at least two distinctly different non-FFA school activities which are conducted outside of normal classtime; participating in activities for community improvement as evidenced by participating in at least two distinctly different activities, to the extent of spending at least 25 hours of personal time, which seek to serve and/or improve the quality of life in the local community; and being familiar with the provisions of the constitution of the State Association and National FFA Organization as certified by the local FFA advisor.