The mission of the National FFA Organization is to "develop students' potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education." One way this mission is carried out is through Career Development Events. Better known as CDEs, they present an opportunity for students to learn skills that they will use throughout their lives- even if they no longer revolve around the agricultural industry.
The main events at the sub-district level include prepared public speaking, parliamentary procedure, extemporaneous public speaking, creed, and tractor driving. In the prepared public speaking event, a student researches a subject extensively and memorizes a hand written speech to recite for a judging panel. In parliamentary procedure, a team must hold a mock meeting and conduct business while debating and keeping notes and order. The extemporaneous speaking event gives a student a random topic in which they must come up with a speech in thirty minutes to recite convincingly to judges. In the creed event only open to Freshmen, a student must memorize the FFA creed and recite it to judges with full understanding of what the organization stands for. Finally, tractor driving participants must learn tractor safety rules and operate the machinery in an obstacle course setting.
All Career Development events are designed to teach lifelong skills to students and the National FFA Organization wishes to create future leaders who use these skills to the fullest. Public speaking competitions such as prepared, extemporaneous, creed, and even parliamentary procedure get students to think about how best to present oneself and the importance of word choice and clarity towards communication. Tractor driving emphasizes safety, knowing the machinery you use, and how to operate a vehicle. Parliamentary procedure further demonstrates how to equally include the minority and majority of an opinion.
So without further ado, the winners of the 2014 Sub-district Competition:
1st place Prepared Public Speaking- Kellie Zambito
1st place Extemporaneous Public Speaking- Alexis Yahre
1st place Creed Speaking- Nicole Ramrazzatto
1st place Parliamentary Procedure- Kellie Zambito, Cassidy Hampton, Emily Casper, Zoe Wallace, Amanda Walther, and Alex Brockhum
3rd place Tractor Operations- Amanda Walther
Also, Kellie Zambito was elected as Sub-district chairman.
Congratulations!!!
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