Leyton FFA Celebrates School Year Achievements

This year the Leyton FFA Chapter tried some new activities such as Milk Quality and Cheese Identification contests, and taking a group to the Nebraska State Fair and Husker Harvest Days.

These activities and others help FFA with the goal of providing students for the opportunity of premier leadership, personal growth and career success. How did we accomplish these goals this year? For premier leadership , the officer team of ; President - Alyson Holt, Vice President - Megan Ernest, Secretary - Sage Rummel, Treasurer - Ella Draper, Reporter – Raina Hartwig, Sentinel - Blake Miller, developed skills to lead the Leyton FFA chapter toward becoming a quality leadership program. This was done by having two State FFA Officers lead them through several activities to reflect how they will lead this organization, and their expectations in their individual offices. All activities were committee driven giving everyone an opportunity for leadership skill development by being a committee chair, secretary or being an active member during the committee meetings. Leadership skills were developed in planning, implementing and evaluating activities like the BBQ/Auction, attending the Leadership Development event such as Employment Skills contest, Creed Speaking contest; and applying and interviewing for State FFA Degrees. Students learned about themselves and experienced personal growth by participating in workshops and sessions at the National FFA Convention.

This experience also had moments of education going through an airport and some people don’t take to traveling as well as others. CLEANUP IN VAN THREE, PLEASE. Members develop pride in themselves through helping at the Dalton Food Bank, which proved to be a challenge with all the other activities students are involved in and the pandemic interrupting schedules.

Being creative dressing up and the enjoyment of participating in driving a tractor to school during FFA Week. Career Success seemed to be the theme of our program this year through career development contests and witnessing different career choices at the State Fair and Husker Harvest Days. The chapter had five individuals compete at the Nebraska State Land judging contest this year in which Alyson Holt, Megan Ernest, Blake Miller and Brenton Abbott were part of the Western Area third place team to earn the right to go to the event. Holden Syverson qualified as an individual participant to be invited to this event in which we earned four ribbons for the students’ efforts. As a chapter the members earned 24 individual ribbons and three team ribbons and one team plaque in various opportunities this past school year. The chapter also received a 3rd place for their float in the Dalton Fall Festival and Oktoberfest parades. To view the pictures of activities throughout the year go to the Leyton FFA facebook pages.

As the year ends and my career here at Leyton Schools winds down; I would like to thank everyone for the support they provided in starting this program, all the students who participated and made this program successful, and to the administration, faculty and staff for the support of getting a new program off to a successful start. It has been an adventure and I learned soooooo much going through this process.

Contest and Activity Results for 2019-2020:

2019-2020 Awards

Individual

Tyenne Berner - Red (Area Land Judging); White (Creed Speaking)

Lisa Dobrinski - Red (Creed Speaking)

Cort Rummel - White (Area Land Judging)

Zander Schoolcraft - Red (Agriscience)

Holden Syverson - Blue (Area Land); White (State Land); White (Mechanics)

Gabe Tretter - Red (Area Land)

Brenton Abbott - Red (Area Land); Pink (State Land)

Ashton Van Anne - White (Area Land)

Megan Ernest - Red (Area Land); Pink (State Land)

Raina Hartwig - Red (State Horse); Red (Employment Skills)

Alyson Holt - White (Milk Quality/Cheese ID); Purple (Area Land); Pink (State Land); Blue

(Extemp); Red (Floriculture); Blue (Farm and Ranch Mgt)

Jake Keim - White (Food Science)

Blake Miller - Red (Area Land)

Chapter/Team

Fall Festival Float - 3rd Place

Oktoberfest Float - 3rd Place

Area Land - 3rd Place Plaque and Blue (Blake, Megan, Alyson, Brenton)

Livestock Management - White (Ashton, Brenton, Abby)

AgriScience - Red (Gabe, Lisa, Tyenne, Zander)

End of the Year Awards

Star Greenhand Degree

The Star Greenhand is selected from all the Greenhand recipients in the current school year to

an individual that has excelled to the top of the group in all grade point average for all classes, earned participation points in FFA and has a viable Supervised Agricultural experience project.