Alliance FFA Chapter
In December students competed in the District FFA Leadership skills events contest at Chadron. Brittany Andersen placed first in Extemporaneous Speaking and qualified for state. Sage Henderson took first place in Job Interview and qualified for state. Nikki Dunovsky placed fourth in Sr. Public Speaking. Alyssa Dye received sixth place in Sr. Public Speaking. Shelby Andersen and Ashtyn Shrewsbury participated in the FFA Creed, Katherine Aby in Natural Resources speaking. Denielle Bennett, Sage Henderson, Alyssa Dye, Brittany Andersen, Nikki Dunovsky and Annalise Placek placed third in Parliamentary procedure. December also included delivering fruit from our sales, sponsoring a food drive at school where we collected just over 1000 cans of food for the community food pantry, and having a Christmas party.
January brought a new semester of classes and more activities. FFA members worked at basketball concession to raise money for district and state competitions.
The Alliance FFA competed in the District 12 Agriculture Career Development Events Contest on Wednesday January 20, at WNCC at Scottsbluff. The Alliance FFA won the Livestock Management team competition. The competition was made up of a team of 3-6 members and who take practical exams on six different species areas. Alliance placed 1st in 3 of the 6 areas they were as follows: swine, poultry and dairy. They placed second in sheep and horse. They received third in Beef. The team was made up of Sage Henderson, Nikki Dunovsky, Denielle Bennett, Brittany Andersen, and Megan McLaughlin. Other team areas where Alliance competed Wednesday were- Welding Team—4th place team: Gus Wilkinson- Arc 2nd place individual, David Henderson-MIG 4th place individual, Brett Schwaderer- O/A 8th place individual. Ag Sales Team- 7th place team-Garrett Lower- 13th place individual, Katherine Aby, Kyle Coleman, and Alyssa Dye. Floriculture Team- Miranda McDonald- 15th place individual, Shelby Andersen, and Brittany Walker.
February allowed students who had been active in the first part of the year to attend the Rapid City Stock show as a reward trip. Even though the weather was not the best 15 members and Ms Walla were able to attend the show and rodeo on February 5. Those who attended were Katherine Aby, Brittany Walker, Brittany Andersen, Shelby Andersen, Brett Schwaderer, Tyson Smith, Nevin Price, Gus Wilkinson, Hayley Loch, Ashtyn Shrewsbury, David Henderson, Denielle Bennett, Garrett Lower, Angello Warfield, Cassie Green, and Briar Clark. During in FFA week our chapter will have a FFA fruit sales pizza party. State FFA president Katie Frenzen came for a visit to talk to potential FFA members. We had a teacher appreciation breakfast for faculty and staff. Our chapter contacted local businesses to paint their windows for FFA week. This weekend the Alliance FFA chapter will be helping out the alumni in their FFA toy show.
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