On Wednesday, May 21st 2025 FFA held their annual awards night honoring both their work from throughout the year, and new officer positions.
The club, also known as “Future Farmers of America”, prepares students for leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education. The awards night event gave the club the opportunity to showcase their previous achievements from competitions and while welcoming next year’s officer. Some of the awards included extemporaneous speaking, prepared public speaking, and employment skills, and agricultural lessons or education.
“My officers organized most of the event. They had to create slideshows and organize who was going to give out awards and who was going to announce various things,” Jessica Nemnich, the club advisor, said. “And they made themselves a script. There’s a lot of things they had to plan.”
“It’s important because the new officers give speeches and explain why they deserve an officer position, and it’s kind of just like a moving up assembly,” Briar Dowdy (‘25) said.
Kayla Mullins (‘26), the president of the club, speaks on the variety of student achievements, and their learning first hand.
“We recognized all of the kids for everything that they’ve done, from SAE projects, which are supervised agricultural experiences, such as equine production, swine Production, beef production and small animal production,” Mullins said. “And we also recognize students who were getting different degrees.”
Previous officers got to reflect on how the club impacted them, and gave speeches guiding underclassmen.
“It kind of opened more public speaking opportunities, and I got some banners for it,” Dowdy said. “It made me realize that I want to help animals in the future, so I’m going to go to school to be a vet. I gained a lot of friends, and I had a lot of leadership opportunities.”
Their advisor further describes the event, and recalls her emotions during the time.
“As the teacher, I absolutely love seeing what they’re really capable of, because they’re in front of peers and parents and community members. I think everybody really steps up and does their absolute best,” Nemnich said.
The event presented and acknowledged their work and projects, providing specific examples of achievements.
“Within the SAE projects, students in our FFA put in nearly 8000 hours into their SAE projects, which is outstanding for the small amount of members that we currently have,” Mullins said, “It was just amazing to kind of look back at that and see everything that we’ve done since, it feels like it just flew by this year.”
