Sandy Creek FFA chapter competes at Kearney
SC FFA chapter dominates CDE competition
Launch the media gallery 1 playerThe Sandy Creek FFA Chapter traveled to the Buffalo County Fairgrounds to compete in Career Development Events (CDEs), such as Agricultural Communications and Livestock Judging. Students put in a lot of time and effort to get ready for these competitions and were rewarded with top honors.
Agricultural communications is a team competition where members listen to a presentation and then split up to do their individual sections. One member creates a short advertising video, the next will write a short paper detailing the business or product, another member will create a flyer or advertisement and the last member will create a short blog post.
“This was my first year competing in ag com, but I thought it went really well despite that. I had a lot of fun and my team was really good,” said senior, Brianna Sorgen.
The ag com team was comprised of junior Brittany Godtel and seniors Desma Hamilton, Brianna Sorgen and Katrina Anderson. For Hamilton and Anderson, this will be their fourth year competing in ag com. The team placed first with Hamilton, Anderson and Sorgen placing first in their individual portions.
“It’s kind of bittersweet because this will be my last year participating in ag com, but at the same time I think this will be a good way to go out,” said Hamilton.
The students participating in Livestock Judging had to judge breeding beef, market beef, breeding sheep, market sheep, breeding hogs, market hogs and breeding goats. They also had to take a livestock knowledge test, give reasons and answer questions about the classes. Sophomore Chase DeVries, a member of the junior livestock judging class, placed second out of one hundred eighty-four competitors.
This year was the first year members of the Sandy Creek junior high participated in the Livestock Judging competition. They were placed in the junior class for the competition, and got to see what livestock judging is really like. Members of the junior high group took the places of fifth, sixth and ninth out of fifty.
“I’m super excited that our ag com team won districts for the fifth year in a row, and I can’t wait to see how they do at state this year. Also, I’m really proud of how the middle school and high school students did in the livestock judging competition,” said Sandy Creeks Ag teacher and advisor, Mrs. Amy Tomlinson.