C-K FFA Chapter Succeeds at CDE Contest
By Jais Ford & Haley Gunnink
On Wednesday, February 17th, a portion of the Cody-Kilgore FFA Chapter made their way to Gordon for the CDE contest. The contests the students were participating in were Farm and Ranch Management, Food Science, and Ag Mechanics. The Farm and Ranch Management team, consisting of Connor Barnes, Jana Nollette, Nathan Van Winkle, Dustin Bryant, Ty Trump, and Casey Nielsen, placing 3rd coming in behind 1st place team Sioux County and 2nd place tem Bayard. Nathan Van Winkle took home 2nd place with a purple, Jana Nollette received a red, and Dustin Bryant finished out the C-K individual ribbon in Farm and Ranch Management with a white. The Food Science team consisting of Aria Ford, Jais Ford, Haley Gunnink, Chelsea Fullerton, Sami Schmit, and Kelli Bowlin took a test online and took an unofficial 1st place. Ag Mechanics did the best they could with two team members, Colt Goodwin and Cody Compton. Goodwin placed 3rd in Structures and Compton took 6th in Machinery.
On February 12, Katie Frenzen, the State FFA President, visited the C-K High School. The day before she was the Gordon High School visiting so she spent the night at the Gunnink residence. Bright and early the next day she spoke to all ages on topics such as Agricultural Careers, Lights, Camera, Teamwork!, and FFA Opportunities. She was a delight to have and had a lot of interesting information to share with us.
We also wanted to take this time to update you on the FFA dodgeball tournament that is now going on. The preliminary rounds are now over and the bracket is up. The #1 seed favored to win is “The Other Guys’, but the “Elm Tree Skunks’ seeded #2 are looking to knock them down. Good Luck to all teams competing!
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