December FFA Newletter

Through the month of No-

vember the Madison

County High School FFA

collected can good items

to donate to the Madison

County Food Bank for the

Thanksgiving season. In a

three week time period

the FFA Chapter members

and agriculture students

collected 503 can good or

non perishable items to

donate. On the Friday be-

fore Thanksgiving

Holidays the chap-

ter boxed and deliv-

ered the over 500

food items to the

Madison County

Food Bank just in

time for the holi-

days. That’s on av-

erage one can per

student in the FFA

Chapter. “There are

so many who do not

have enough to eat

on a daily bases

right here in this county

and while we are all eat-

ing our Thanksgiving

Day meal and have lots

left over there will be

some that have noth-

ing.” MCHS FFA Advisor,

Trisha Lastly says. “This

is just our small way of

helping others and

teaches our students to

serve others.”

The MCHS FFA Chapter

is also collecting

toys for tots through

the month of De-

cember for Christ-

mas, can tabs

throughout the en-

tire school year for

Ronald McDonald

House, for those

children with cancer

and will be making

and packaging box-

es for the soldiers

and sending the

care packages

overseas. If you

would like to do-

nate your time, money

or items to the com-

mittee service pro-

jects please feel free

to call the school or

contact Trisha Lastly,

Josh White, Kay

Farmer or Cindy

Jones the Madison

County High School

FFA Advisors.

FFA Chapter Collects OVER 500 Can

Food Items for Madison Co Food Bank

Upcoming Coming Events:

Collection for the Troops

Greenhand Jamboree/Career Success Leadership Confer-ences Deposits Due January

31st

Club Day Meetings Every 1st

Wednesday of the Month

Young Farmer Meeting Every

2nd Thursday of the month.

December Supporter of the Month the

Madison County FFA Alumni

For the month of

December our chapter has

chosen our very own FFA

Alumni Chapter to be our

supporter of the month.

The FFA Alumni

donates monies for scholar-

ships to seniors, trip fees

and registrations as well has

offers support to the stu-

dents and agriculture teach-

ers in the chapter year

round. Thank you FFA Alum-

ni for always being there to

help us out in every way!

Above: Kevin Jones, Tatum Harris and Casie Wade deliver over 500 can food items to the Madison Co Food Bank before the Thanksgiving holiday.

Inside this issue:

State CDE Placings 2

CDE Placings—Wiring 2

CDE Placings—Ag Mechanics 3

CDEs Livestock Judging,, Ag

Sales, Ag Comm, & Floriculture 3

Student Spotlight—Jessica

Baxter

4

Volume 3, Issue 4

12/21/2011

MCHS FFA DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Above the MC FFA Alumni members with FFA members as Supporter of the Month.

Recently Bailey Seabolt traveled

to the State Floral Design Career

Development Event, held in Tifton,

GA at Abraham Baldwin Agricultur-

al College. Bailey worked very

hard for weeks on perfecting her

floral designing skills. In the State

Junior Floral Design CDE student

would have to make two of the

following designs: bud vase, cen-

ter piece, boutonniere or corsage.

The contest is timed and judged

by actual florists. This year the

contests had to make a boutonni-

ere and a corsage in 1 hours time.

Bailey placed Madison County FFA

member’s highest, 4th. There

were 12 students in the State

CDE and they had all qualified on

the area level first placing either

1st or 2nd. Congratulations to

Bailey and all her hard work to

make it to that state CDE and

place as high as she did. Also she

would like to say a special THANK

YOU to the Danielsville Florist and

to Jeff Studwell at Daffodil Hill for

all of their support and work with

her practicing.

Kevin also had to show safety skills,

take a problem solving test, give a

speech over wiring and take a gen-

eral knowledge test. Kevin Jones,

MCHS junior will travel to the STATE

CDE in a month’s time to compete in

the state wide wiring contest in Fort

Valley. Kevin’s mother and father are

Joe and Cindy Jones of Commerce.

The Madison County High School FFA

member Kevin Jones recently com-

peted in the Area 2 FFA Jackson EMC

wiring Career Development Event.

The event was held on December

10th, 2011. Kevin Jones, placed 2nd

out of more than 20 students in the

Area II Wring CDE. This contest allows

the student to demonstrate their

skills in not only their wiring skills but

Job Interview and Land placing 6th

on the State Level

Jackson EMC Area Wiring CDE - Going to STATE

Morgan Dooley. This team placed 6th in

the contest where they had to measure

slope, grade land and recommend the

land for productions. This

team was trained by Josh

White.

Stephanie Hilburn competed in

the event of Job Interview and also placed

6th on the State Level. Stephanie had to

develop a resume, interview for a job, fill

out an application and write a follow up

letter to the employer. Job Interview is

trained by Kay Farmer.

In the event of Land Judging the

Madison County FFA Senior Team trav-

eled to Tifton, GA and competed on the

state land judging CDE.

This team consisted of

Olivia Minish, Bri Kittle,

Savannah Roberts and

Volume 3, Issue 4

Above is Bailey Seabolt with her designs placing 4th in the state.

“I enjoy land judging

because you get to get your

hands dirty for contest!” -

Bri Kittle

Seabolt Places 4th on the State Level in Floral Design

Kevin Jones repre-senting us at the STATE CDE SOON! Light it UP KEV!

MCHS FFA December Newsletter

The MCHS FFA Agricultural Mechan-

ics Team recently competed in the

Area 2 FFA Agricultural Mechanics

Career Development Event. The

event was held at Franklin County

High School on December 8th. Team

members Kevin Jones, team high

individual and overall 2nd high indi-

vidual in the contest out of more

than 60 students in the contest,

senior Mark Pullam, Judd Stratton

and Dusty Guest participated in

individual problem solving and skill

development activities and took a

written examination.

The event included sub-

ject matter associated

with machinery and

equipment systems and

energy systems. This

team placed 6th and re-

ceived a gold emblem for

their ranking in the top

1/3 of the teams com-

peting. This team was

trained by the agriculture

mechanic teacher, Josh

White.

ing and market beef, sheep, and swine, and

then give oral reasons to the judges as to why

they placed each class as they did. MCHS FFA

Senior Team members include Kevin Jones,

Tyler Arnold, Olivia Minish and Garrett Whit-

worth. The Madison County High School

ninth grade FFA Livestock Judging CDE

team members included: Travis Tankersley

and Levi Simmons and Makayla Kellum.

Both junior and senior livestock judging

teams were trained by MCHS Agricultural

Teacher and Young Farmer teacher Mrs.

Cindy Jones.

The Madison County FFA Livestock Judging

Team recently placed 4th in the Area 2 Senior

FFA Livestock Judging Career Development

Event (CDE). Also competing in the junior

event was Madison County High School ninth

grade FFA members. The junior FFA Livestock

Judging team placed 16th. The Livestock Judg-

ing CDE allows agricultural education students

the opportunity to make accurate observations

of livestock, determine the desirable traits in

animals, make logical decisions based on their

observations, and discuss and defend those

decisions. Participants place classes of breed-

Floriculture, Ag Communications and Ag Sales

Agriculture Mechanics

Livestock Judging Area CDE

over 100 different plants

and take a written exam

covering the horticulture

industry. The Madison

County High School FFA

Agriculture Communica-

tions CDE Team recently

placed 6th out of more than

15 teams, in the Area II

FFA Agriculture Sales Career Develop-

ment Event (CDE). The event was held at

Oconee County High School in Watkins-

ville, GA on November 15th, 2011. Team

members included Bri Kittle, Jordan Lunds-

ford, Brittany Moore and Justin Stanley.

High individual on the team was MCHS

junior, Jordan Lundsford. Each team mem-

ber had to compete in two areas of the

contest, the sales test of 25 multiple choice

questions, which tested the students’

knowledge on sales strategies and rules.

The MCHS Ag Communication team placed

9th at the area contest. Team members

included: Chyenne Gordon, Kate Russum

and Jessica Baxter. These ladies had to

read and correct newspaper articles.

Competiting on the area

level in Floriculture were

senior team members

Jaime Feagan, Samantha

Cofer, Jenny Ortman and

team high individual Am-

ber WIlbanks. The team

placed 8th out of 30

teams. The Junior team

placed 3rd out of more than 40 teams

and the team members included: Aaron

Hall, Luke Frank, Sarah Spradlin and Bri-

anna Morgan. These team had to identify

Sr Livestock Judging Team Places 4th in Area CDE

Plants are my favorite! I

can’t do animals BUT plants

I enjoy and FFA has that for

me!” - Brianna Morgan

The agriculture mechanics team has a good time after welding, wiring, solving problems, taking a test and testing a small engine. This team placed 6th and Kevin Jones was 2nd high individual in the CDE out of almost 80 students!

600 Madison Street

Danielsville, GA 30633

Madison County

High School FFA

competed in agriculture communi-

cation, meats judging, floriculture

and dairy judging but her favorite

of them all has been agriculture

communications. Jessica really

enjoys proofreading the papers

and learning about different types

of advertisement. She has com-

peted in agriculture communica-

Jessica Baxter is a junior at Madi-

son County High School and was

chosen for our chapter’s Decem-

ber student spotlight because of

her activity within our FFA chapter.

She enjoys taking agriculture clas-

ses because she enjoys doing

things hands on in the classroom

and learning by doing. She takes

what she learns in the classroom

and is able to apply it in her super-

vised agricultural experience. Jes-

sica’s SAE is poultry production

where she has to feed and water

the chickens and make sure they

stay healthy and she picks up

eggs two times a week.

She has also been able to

take what she learns in the class-

room and use it in various career

development events. She has

tions for three years and has

made it to the state competition

two out of the three years. Jessica

is hoping to make it to nationals

next year her senior year. Jessica

also attends all local meetings,

participates in local fundraisers,

assists with local plant sales and

has earned her Greenhand and

Chapter FFA degree.

Through the FFA and agri-

culture classes Jessica has also

been able to attend State Conven-

tions, Leadership Conferences

and this past summer the Natural

Resource and Conservations

Camp at ABAC. Jessica will also be

interviewing for the Governor’s

Honors Program in the area of

Agriculture.

Student Spotlight - Jessica Baxter

Phone: 706795-2110

Josh White - [email protected]

Trisha Lastly

[email protected]

Kay Farmer

[email protected]

Cindy Jones

[email protected]

Please Contact ANY of the Agriculture Teachers

with questions!

Jessica Baxter, above, checks plants for needs during the Horticulture class at MCHS.

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