Strawberry Festival Water Sales

For this fundraising opportunity, Steinbrenner FFA teamed up with the Martinez FFA chapter. Selling water bottles during concerts at the Strawberry Festival was hard work, but also served to get our name out in the community.

Hay Bale Decorating Contest

For the second year running, our chapter has participated in the Florida State Fair hay bale decorating contest. In this contest, members are tasked with planning the design and execution of turning a provided hay bale into something else. For this year, we kept with the theme "watch our chapter grow" and devised a way to turn our hay bale into a watering can. Supplies were short, but by sticking to a budget and getting quite creative we managed to pull it out. In fact, we won second place and $350 for our chapter! Thank you to everyone who came to help put it together and a special thank you to Audra Skinner and the Wallace family for helping with supplies!

Baked Goods and Poinsettia Sale

 From handing out donuts at club meetings or holding chapter parties to the end of the year banquet, funds play a large role in making chapter events what they are. As a chapter, the reasoning for anything we do is that it goes back to the members and community. To continue this support, we must act like most organizations and hold fundraisers. 

For this fundraising venture, Alumni and chapter members worked together at two locations. On Saturday, officers split up into two groups. One group was to sell baked goods and poinsettias at the Avalon horse show. The second group sold poinsettias and water bottles at the Lake Park Craft Festival. Sitting under a tent all day was surprisingly exhausting, and  we thank everyone who donated money, purchased goods, and donated the water bottles. We also thank members and parents who continued to work at Lake Park on Sunday and for the support of the community.

FFA Car Wash

Kicking off our first fundraiser of the year, our chapter ran a car wash last Saturday. Member participation was high, and we are so grateful for the large turnout. Raising $328, the money will go towards numerous activities for our members throughout the year.

Lucky for us, the weather was very good throughout the day leading to a successful car wash. Also, we were extremely happy to see parents, other students, and the general public stop by to get their car cleaned.

The members who volunteered their time to run the fundraiser held signs and washed and dried cars. The atmosphere was very positive and cheerful the whole day and, even when tired, everyone had a lot of fun.

The aftermath