News
Release
February 10, 2010
Contact: Steve Zimmerman, state advisor, at 701-328-3162
Beth Bakke Stenehjem, Foundation director, at 701-471-5004
(cell)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2010 National FFA Week is February 20-27,
2010
Bismarck
– The ND FFA will celebrate National FFA Week Feb. 20-27.
Lead Out Loud is
the theme this year as members pledge to show off what makes them premier
leaders in their schools and communities. More than 4500 FFA members across
North Dakota
will participate in the FFA Week activities.
The focus of National FFA Week is to tell the community and
the country about the great opportunities available through FFA. From its
beginnings in 1928 as the Future Farmers of America, the National FFA
Organization today reaches out to all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands
. FFA is committed to developing
character and leadership skills, as well as preparing members for a lifetime of
civic leadership and career success.
FFA members have opportunities to attend national
leadership conferences, start their own businesses, and apply for awards and
scholarships. Through classroom instruction and hands-on learning, agricultural
education and FFA are making a positive difference in the lives of students.
FFA members are our future engineers, scientists, teachers and producers.
One of every five Americans is employed in the food, fiber and natural resources
industries, and FFA members are preparing for one of those 300 careers in
agriculture.
As a part of National FFA Week, North Dakota FFA members
are planning the following special events:
·
Teacher Appreciation Events at Belfield, Lidgerwood,
Mandan
, Parshall
·
Business Appreciation Activities for Carrington,
Stanley
, and
Grant
County
·
Ag Day for Elementary Students at Tioga, Wishek, Max
·
Dress Up Days in Belfield, Max, Tioga, Des Lacs/Burlington
·
Food Drive in Lidgerwood and
Blood Drive
in Tioga
·
Radio spots in Carrington, Maddock, Max,
Scranton
·
Ag Competitions in Des Lacs/Burlington, Lidgerwood, and Maddock;
School Carnival in Towner
·
Polar Barbeque in
Stanley
with meat provided by their Meats Lab
·
Livestock and Crops Competition in
Rugby
FFA students can be
found in all parts of the state, from
Divide
County
to Wahpeton to
Park
River
and Bowman. These members can look
forward to unlimited success in life. FFA
students are future chemists, veterinarians, government officials,
entrepreneurs, international business leaders, teachers and premier
professionals in over 300 agricultural careers.
The skills that are developed through FFA serve a student well throughout
life, regardless of the individual paths chosen by the student.
For more information about the ND FFA, please visit the
website for the ND FFA Foundation at http://www.ndffafoundation.com/.
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Activities
for FFA Week!
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Belfield
FFA is planning on having a Duct
Tape Clothing Day, an Official FFA Dress Day with an ice cream social for
the students, and a staff appreciation breakfast.
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Along with the regular activities, Carrington
FFA members take fresh baked cookies to the agribusinesses in the
community; it is called “Cookies for the Community” and is just their
way of showing their appreciation to these businesses.
Students also do a full page ad in the local newspaper and radio
spots.
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Des
Lacs – Burlington FFA is holding dress up days, a cherry pie social
for high school students, a banana split social for the elementary students.
FFA members are also decorating the elementary and high school in FFA
colors and posters, having ag quizzes during lunch, and holding a pep rally
on Friday with many ag related games such as a tractor pedal race and a
straw bale toss.
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Grant
County FFA member make 400 pieces
of cherry cheese cake and deliver it to all the business places in
Carson
,
Elgin
, and New Leipzig.
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Lidgerwood
FFA is having a food drive, a
coloring contest, dress up days, an AgOlympics competition, skits for the
kindergarten class, and a staff appreciation day.
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Maddock
FFA members plan to read to the
preschool students, hold a Greenhand initiation for new members and an Ag
Olympics for members, have an ice cream/pie social for the teachers, and
schedule dress ups days during the week.
The chapter officers will be going to the local radio station in
Devils
Lake
to promote 80 years of FFA through radio recordings.
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Mandan
FFA members will have a pie and
ice cream social for all the high school teachers and an un-formal banquet
for Discovery, Greenhand, and Chapter Degree recipients where parents are
also invited.
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Max
FFA will be holding dress-up days
such as Official Dress Day, Blue and Gold Day, Redneck Day, and PJ Day; will
decorate the high school with Blue and Gold; will hold agricultural coloring
contests for the elementary students; will read to the elementary students;
will hold a senior "Kiss the Pig" contest with all money being
donated to a local area of need; and will have FFA interviews on the radio.
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Parshall
FFA is planning on having all the
FFA members bring some food item for potluck and inviting the school staff
to have lunch with them in the ag room.
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Rugby
FFA will have a cherry pie and
ice cream social, a trivia contest for students, door prize drawings during
the week, and a crop and livestock judging contest on Saturday.
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The Scranton FFA Alumni Chapter is sponsoring hamburgers for lunch to
all FFA members in Scranton, and the Scranton FFA members will do radio
spots for KPOK about FFA.
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Stanley
High School
has a career preparation class with
fourteen different cooperating businesses.
The Stanley FFA Chapter celebrates this cooperation by holding a
Polar Barbeque with meat from the Meats Lab, where they feed the whole
school and the participating career preparation businesses.
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Tioga
FFA Chapter will have dress up days such as the Braden Overson Shirt Day (Braden was
burned in a car accident) and the Mr. Carkuff Day where students dress up
like their ag teacher and teach the ag classes, a blood drive, a pie social,
a movie day, trivia contests, and a day for FFA members to visit the grade
school and teach students about agriculture.
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Towner
FFA
is planning on having a carnival on Feb. 19, and the Towner FFA
Alumni will be having food for sale there.
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Wishek
FFA will paint the Greenhand
members’ hands green, offer students rootbeer floats, hold a pie and ice
cream social and a chili cook off, have students compete in a hammering
contest, have FFA officers teach the elementary students about agriculture,
encourage students to drive their tractor to school, and hold other contests
during the week.
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ND FFA Foundation