St. Helena FFA
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Career/Leadership Development Events
FFA members focus on skill development and career preparation through participation in Career Development Events and Leadership Development Events. These competitive events develop individual responsibility, foster teamwork and promote communication while recognizing the value of ethical competition and individual achievement. Successful members expand their knowledge base by interacting with peers, teachers, as well as business and community leaders to gain a complete and comprehensive knowledge about specific career and leadership areas
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Career Development Events
St. Helena FFA offers 6 CDE's focused on different career areas such as Viticulture, Floriculture, Marketing, Mechanics, Leadership, and Research.
Grapevine Pruning
Grapevine Judging
Floriculture
Agricultural Welding
Agriscience Fair
Marketing Plan
Leadership Development Events
St. Helena FFA offers 6 LDE's focused on developing students Public Speaking and Leadership Skills.
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Opening & Closing Ceremonies
Creed Recitation
Impromptu Public Speaking
Employment Skills
Prepared Public Speaking
Extemporaneous Public Speaking
Career Development Events Descriptions
Grapevine Pruning
The Grapevine Pruning event seeks to effectively prepare the students to learn current agriculture viticulture practices and procedures used in today’s industry. Students learn to prune grapevines, evaluate the performance of the grapevine, learn to give descriptive reasons to a judge and take a test on pruning. Students seeking careers in agriculture must not only develop a high degree of knowledge and skill, they must also develop the ability to solve difficult problems. This event blends the testing of manipulative skills and knowledge required for careers in agriculture production. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Grapevine Judging
The grapevine judging event seeks to effectively prepare agricultural students for the expectations of the viticulture workplace. Students learn the anatomy of a grapevine, learn to evaluate vines, and give descriptive reasons to a judge. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Floriculture
The Floriculture Career Development Event seeks to effectively prepare students for the expectations of the agricultural floral industry. The students seeking careers in the floricultural field must not only develop a high degree of knowledge and skill, they must also use critical thinking and oral communication skills. Students will be able to demonstrate quality evaluation by judging potted foliage plants, cut flowers, flowering potted plants, and floral design classes. The students will identify the many cut flowers, potted plants, and tools and materials commonly used in the floral industry. Students will also construct a corsage and floral arrangement according to the floral industry standards. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Agricultural Welding
The Agricultural Welding event aims to evaluate student's manipulative skills, general knowledge and professional presentation as these correlate to his/her preparation for employment in the broad field of welding (agricultural, industrial, or other). The event consists of a welding application, a written test, weld testing/inspection, and a job portfolio/application. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Agriscience Fair
The Agriscience Fair event recognizes high school students who are studying the application of scientific principles and emerging technologies in agricultural enterprises. Students focus on 6 different areas including Food Products and Processing Systems, Environmental Services/Natural Resource Systems, Animal Systems, Plant Systems, Power, Structural and Technical Systems and Social Systems. The goals of this event is to provide students with an opportunity to use the scientific process, provide students an opportunity to achieve local, state and national recognition for their accomplishments in agriscience, reinforce skills and principles learned in agriscience courses, provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate and display agriscience projects that are products of their agriscience courses, and provide recruiting and promotional opportunities for agriscience programs.
© California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Marketing Plan
The Marketing Plan Career Development Event seeks to effectively prepare students for the opportunities and expectations of the agricultural business workplace. Students seeking careers in the agricultural business industry must develop a high degree of knowledge and skill as well as the capacity to create and present a marketing plan. This competition should help to develop partnerships and improve relations with local agricultural industries, FFA chapters, and the general public. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Leadership Development Events Descriptions
Opening & Closing Ceremonies
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies competition consists of memorizing and reciting a script. Students compete in teams of six, in the rolls of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer Reporter, and Sentinel. Students are judged based on memorization, appearance and delivery.
Creed Recitation
The FFA Creed outlines the organization’s beliefs regarding the agricultural industry, FFA membership and the value of citizenship and patriotism. The FFA Creed is recited by FFA members, as part of the requirements to earn the Greenhand Degree. The purpose of the Creed Speaking Career Development Event is to develop the public speaking abilities of 9th grade FFA members as well as develop their self-confidence and contribute to their advancement in the FFA degree program. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Impromptu Public Speaking
The purpose of the Impromptu Public Speaking Career Development Event is to foster and develop the speaking abilities of FFA members as well as develop their self-confidence and contribute to their advancement in inter-personal skill attainment and leadership development. The intention of the Impromptu Contest is to offer a more realistic, practical speaking contest to better prepare our students for public statements, media coverage, and general questions about the FFA and Agriculture Industry. Students will develop the valuable speaking skills necessary to be professional, competent public representatives of the FFA Organization and Agriculture Industry.
© California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Employment Skills
The Employment Skills Career Development Event seeks to effectively prepare the students for the expectations of interviewing for available positions within the Agricultural Industry. Students seeking careers within the Agricultural Industry must not only develop a high degree of knowledge and skill; they must also develop the ability to interview through communication in both written and oral forms; and be able to complete a resume, cover letter, and job application accurately. © California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Prepared Public Speaking
The purpose of the Prepared Public Speaking Career Development Event is to foster and develop the speaking abilities of FFA members as well as develop their self-confidence and contribute to their advancement in inter-personal skill attainment and leadership development.grams. Students write a 6-8 minute speech, memorize and deliver to a panel of judges and are asked follow up questions.
© California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
Extemporaneous Public Speaking
The FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking Career Development Event is designed to develop the ability of all FFA members to express themselves on a given agricultural subject without having prepared or rehearsed its content in advance. This gives the FFA members an opportunity to formulate their remarks for presentation in a very limited amount of time. The event requires students to think on their feet, state their case quickly and persuasively, and to be able to answer relevant questions based upon their presentation.
© California Agricultural Teachers' Association 2018
