Dundy County Stratton FFA attends State Convention

On the morning of March 28^th at 4:30am four members and our advisor loaded a van for the Ag Mechanics contest at the State Fairgrounds in Grand Island to kick-off the 84^th Annual Nebraska State FFA convention.  The other 20 members took the bus to Lincoln at a later time.  Teams competing (ribbons) at convention were, farm business management (blue), agriscience (red), nursery/landscape (white), ag mechanics (white), agronomy, welding, senior livestock judging and junior livestock judging.  Those medaling individually were as follows:

Mitchel Shillington (4^th overall) – Ag Mechanics, red

Elisabeth Jensen – Agriscience, purple

Kyle Newcomb - Agriscience, red

Faith Stroup – Agronomy, red

Morgan Jones and Ben Fox – Farm Business Management, purple

Mariah McAfos – Farm Business Management, white

Paige Tecker – Farm Business Management, red

Kyle Newcomb and Aaron Yauney – Jr. Livestock judging, white

Taylor Walker – Nursery/Landscape, blue

Faith Stroup – Nursery/Landscape, white

Paige Tecker – Sr. Livestock judging, red

Trever Borchard – MIG welding, blue

Also competing at the state convention were seniors Morgan Jones and Michaela Lutz in the job interview.  It was an awesome feat to qualify both members from the same district.  Morgan received a silver medal and Michaela received a gold medal.  This year we had five members put forth the effort to maintain records throughout their FFA career and receive their State FFA Degrees.  Those who received their degrees were Mariah McAfoos, Paige Tecker, Tayler Jensen, Faith Stroup and Morgan Jones.  

While at convention members attended leadership workshops, sat in on numerous contests, attended sessions at Pershing auditorium, enjoyed a night of bowling and had a lot of fun!  Upcoming events to look forward to for DCS FFA members and supporters are April 16^th – Labor Auction, April 26^th – officer interviews, April 30^th – recognition banquet and May 16^th – last day of school!