St. Anne FFA Digital Scrapbook

2023-2024

St. Anne FFA Digital Scrapbook

Table of Contents

Page 1-Cover

Page 2-Table of Contents

Page 3-Table of Contents cont.

Page 4-National Officers

Page 5-State Officers

Page 6-Section Officers

Page 7-Chapter Officers

Page 8-Chapter Membership

Page 9-Chapter Membership cont.

Page 10-State Convention

Page 11-State Convention cont.

Page 12-Fair

Page 13-September Meetings

Page 14-Pumpkin Fest

Page 15-Pumpkin Fest cont.

Page 16-Land Use CDE

Page 17-JJC Immersion Day

Page 18-Ag Sales CDE

Page 19-October Meeting

Page 20-National Convention

Page 21-National Convention cont.

Page 22-Brat Sale+Quilt Raffle

Page 23-Greenhand+Build Conferences

Page 24-Section Agronomy, Public Speaking, + Job Interview

Page 25-State Agronomy

Page 26-Wreaths Across America

Page 27-Consession Stand

Page 28-Section Proficiencies

Page 29-FFA Week

Page 30-FFA Week cont.

Page 31-FFA Week cont.

Page 32-Farm Bureau Trip

Page 33- Farm Bureau Trip cont.

Page 34-Section Meats

Page 35-District Proficiencies

Page 36-Service Project

Page 37-Board Game Meeting

Page 38-Kids Day on a Farm

Page 39-Kids Day on a Farm cont.

Page 40-State Proficiencies

Page 41-Section Ag Mechanics

Page 42-Section Horticulture

Page 43-State Horticulture

Page 44-State Poultry

Page 45-Section 10 Banquet

Page 46-Plant Sale

Page 47-Chapter Banquet

Page 48-Flag Placing

‘23-’24 National Officers

Amara Jackson President Grant Norfleet

Secretary

Carter Howell Southern Region VP Kanyon Huntington Central Region VP

Morgan Anderson Eastern Reagion VP Emily Gossett Western Region VP

‘23-’24 IL State Officers

Eric Wisely

Thaddeus Bergschneider President

VIce President

Riley Kessler Secretary

Cooper Nelson Reporter

Benjamin Bremmer Treasurer

IL Section 10 Officers

Maya Anderson Reporter

Erin Hanen Secretary/Treasurer

Tiffany DeYoung President

Nathan Brammer

Vice President

Fernando Zavala*

Caleb Behrends*

Keilly BeltranMoreno*

Harlan Cain*

Tessa DeYoung*

Raul Gaytan*

Braydin hartman*

wesley hedges*

emmett hughes*

riley jones*

quinlin kirkland*

landon mcfatridge*

diego miramontes*

alessandro moser*

brisa ortiz*

nathan rivera*

mason romein*

clayton wendt*

Freshmen Chapter Membership

Sophomores Uriel barraza* nathan brammer’ oliver forestier* erin hanen’ marlon martin* natalea perez* grant Pomaranski* noemi ramirez*

Emily sacnhez* paityn shields*

Shane stamp* alejandro vazquez* america vazquez* ricardo Villegasanaya*

jamie williams* damion wynne*

Davison wynne*

Chapter Membership cont.

Juniors

Maya Anderson’

Andy CintoraZavala*

Seniors

Logan Anderson*

T’Ayla Crite-Jackson*

Reece curtis*

Tiffany Deyoung”

Deion Fifier*

Benjamin Harpster*

Adonis Hedgecock*

Kaden Johnson*

Jovi Kunsch*

Natalie Lafond*

Miracle Jonesthomas*

Noah leveque*

jenice liddell*

gerardo reyes*

ricardo reyes*

angel tristan*

jaqorri wyatt*

luke Denault*

ashlynne easter*

Darvantez Grant*

Camila horta*

teddy pollard*

keaton smith*

logan tolly*

logan vallejo*

logan wilkening*

andrew willis*

A few members walked to a local farmer’s market for lunch during day 2!

Our Chapter went to multiple sessions throughout the convention. We heard many retiring addresses, listened to speeches, and learned from the Major State Officer’s speeches.

2023 I State Co

IL FFA onvention

The Convention theme this year was “Electrify”

Chap Member Lucas Hanen received his State Degree!

Members went to a few workshops to work on leadership and teamwork.

Nathan Brammer showed Goats + Rabbits. He won Showmanship!

Dakota Parr showed sheep.

Iroquois County Fair

Maya and Tiffany helped run the Kids Zone! They did daily agrelated activities for kids, such as making ice cream in a bag and an egg drop!

Over100+ Kids stoppedby!

Westartedthemeetingby goingovertheagenda,and thenenjoyedhotdogsand s’moresoverthebonfire.

September Meeting

Making Signs

Wespentagoodamountoftime decoratingatrailerforourtown’s festivalparade.Wedecoratedwith partoftheFFACreed,FFAJackets, ribbons,balloons,andmore.

Larry Dumontelle also brought his Wife’s Sweetheart FFA Jacket!

Every year our town has a fall festival. This years theme was “Retro Rewind.” 3 Alumni came to ride the float, and they each brought their Jacket. DArren Wagner brought a tractor to pull our float.

StAnne Pu Parade 2nd

Place Parade Float

(Also the 2nd year in a row the Bank beat us for 1st)

mpkinFest

6 Members helpeddirect andparkcars.

Each year our chapter helps at the pull. It was a pretty rainy day, but everyone still had fun! Each member also got a T-Shirt to wear.

Truck+Tractor Pull

4 Members were in charge of making sure people signed waivers before entering the pull.

Land Use CDE 13 members competed

Team-3rd

Nathan Brammer-8th

Erin Hanen-15th

Tiffany DeYoung-17th

Analyzed and evaluated 4 soil pits

JJC Immersion Day

Plant

Propagation

d about AG opportunities+jobs 6members attended

How drones are used in AG

place team overall

The team had to develop a sales plan, take a knowledge exam, and indiviually make a sale. This year’s product was pioneer seed.

Ag Sales 4th

Maya Anderson-2nd in room

Deion Fifier-3rd in room

Tiffany DeYoung-4th in room

Ben Harpster-4th in room

11/1-11/3

Day 1:

Members ate lunch at Cracker Barrel, attended the first general session, and went to the Lainey Wilson concert.

Natio Conve 10 Members went

Best restaurant in Indy (as voted on by our chapter)

Day 3:

We attended session 4, ate lunch at The Yardhouse, and went to a leadership workshop.

Day 2: They talked about different ag careers

onal ention

We took a tour of Crown Hill Cemetary, walked around the FFA Expo and Shopping Center, and ended the night at Texas Roadhouse and a Haunted House!

Photo dump

Brat Sale

The officer team and a few members went to our local FS Grain to sell brat meals to farmers, and anyone else that stopped in, to raise money for our chapter. The Ag Business class helped prep the lunch bags.

Each meal included a drink, a cookie, a bag of chips, condiments, and 1 or 2 smoked brats.

Quilt Raffle

Lisa DeYoung made and donated a quilt for our annual quilt raffle. This year it was a pumpkin quilt! We sold over 100 tickets.

Jess Parr winner:

11-2-23

U of I Greenhand Conference

4 of our Chapter Greenhands went to the U of I Greenhand Conference. They had a fun time and learned about themselves,, leadership, and teamwork.

BUILD Conference

Maya and Tiffany traveled to ISU for the BUILD Conference. They had a great trip between the sessions, shopping, and going out to eat.

Team:4th

5th-Maya

7th-Nathan

13th-Erin

Team: Blue rank State Agronomy dec. 9th

Maya Anderson-Blue

Nathan Brammer-Blue

Tessa DeYoung-Red

Erin Hanen-Red

11th

For this CDE, members had to take a general Knowledge exam, ID Insects, Judge Placing Classes, ID Plants, ID Seeds, and ID Machinery.

Wreaths Across America

Our chapter helped our local American Legion Post in putting wreaths on veteren’s headstones at a local cemetary.

December 16th

Citizenship

5 members voluntered

wreatsh were placed at the center of the headstone, with the bow at the top. Then, we placed our right hand on our heart and say the veterns name. to ensure that they, and what they did for us, is not forgotten.

Helped

Concession Stand 9Members

FFA Was in charge of a consession stand during a boys basketball game. This helped raise money for our chapter and our schools athletic program!

Section 10 Proficiencies

February 14th, 2024

Tiffany DeYoung

2nd-Ag Education for her Ag in the Classroom SAE

Maya Anderson

1st-Ag Sales Placement for her work at Oosterhoff & Son and FS Grain.

1st-Outdoor Recreation for his work at Lowry Sled Rental

Nathan Brammer

Teacher Lunch

To show appreciation, FFA put on a brat lunch for the teachers and staff in the building. We also put out houseplants that they could take!

FFA Week flyer that was hung around the school and posted on social media

Denim Day FFA WEEk

Tuesday’s Dress up day was Denim Day! Many members, students, and staff participated.

ABC Day

Wednesday was our Anything But a Car day. We had 3 members drive tractors!

FFA WEEk Con.

On thursday, Our Officer team taught an ag lesson to third graders.

Pig in a wig

FFA Week Con.

Every day the pig was hidden. STudents had to take a picture with it and send it to our social media to be entered into a drawing at the end of the week.

On Friday we had a member breakfast in the greenhouse

J a n i e ’ s F l o u r M i l l

Ashkum, IL

We toured the mill, learned about organic farming, saw the packaging process, and learned about how flour+other products are made there!

Everyone had to wear hairnets

Ashkum, IL

2/27/

K a n k a k B u r e a

We ate at Beans & Barley Brews for lunch! First, the Kankakee County Farm Bureau talked about what they do and their Young Leaders program. Then, we enjoyed pizza and talked to members from other chapters. They gave us random seating

B e a n s & B a r l e y

e e F a r m a u T r i p

Our final stop was Interglobe Genetics. We learned about semen and egg collection, IVF, and genetics in beef and dairy cattle. They talked about their process, showed us where tubes are stored, let us meet livestock, and answered our questions. Coolers

I n t e r g l o b e G e n e t i c s

RESULTS RESULTS Section Meats

Team 2nd

BenHarpsterIdentifying BenHarpsterIdentifying cutsofmeat. cutsofmeat.

7th-Nathan Brammer 7th-Nathan Brammer

9th-Tiffany DeYoung 9th-Tiffany DeYoung

10th-Erin Hanen 10th-Erin Hanen

11th-Benjamin Harpster 11th-Benjamin Harpster

13th-Keaton Smith 13th-Keaton Smith

21st-Caleb Behrends 21st-Caleb Behrends

District 2 Proficiency’s

Maya Anderson

Ag Sales-Placement

Nathan Brammer

Outdoor Recreation

Maya and Nate both got 1st in their respective SAE Proficiency Areas! It was held at JJC where they got iterviewed about their recordbooks.

State Bound!

Board Game Meeting

GPizza, Aames, +genda, Fun!

About half of the volunteer members that we brought were Group Leaders. They were in charge of a 4th Grade Class, and had to lead them from station to station.

15

members

Kids on a F Kankakee F

Group Leaders

Day Farm Farm Bureau Presenters

The other half of our members presented to the 4th graders! They taught about designated topics, because a few presenters couldn't make it. It was a last minute surprise, and they all did a great job! Nate talked about cows digestive systems, Paityn+Erin talked about chicks, Tiffany+Tessa did Ag Jenga, and Maya spent half her time teaching the cow digestive system and the other half talking about corn!

April 17th

S m a l l e n g i n e s

8th-Nathan Brammer

w e l d i n g

10th-Keaton Smith

Team: 1st

April 17th

BenHarpster-2nd

ErinHanen-3rd

MayaAnderson-4th

TiffanyDeYoung-6th

TessaDeYoung-13th

LandonMcFatridge-21st

QuinlinKirkland-27th

CalebBehrends-29th

There was a plant id, general knowledge exam, judging classes, and a corsage making praticum

State Poultry

TiffanyDeYoung-BlueRank

NathanBrammer-BlueRank

CalebBehrends-BlueRank

WesleyHedges-RedRank

KeatonSmith-WhiteRank

Team placing

11th

April 19th

Members

Attended

We recieved a banner for being High Team at Horticulture

Delegates

Section

April30th

2 of our members ran and got elected as section officers for the ‘24-’25 year!

New Section Officer Team

President

Tiffany DeYoung

Maya Anderson

We had a recording breaking turn out and sale! The weather was beautiful both days and we are so grateful for our community’s support of our program. members helped This included checking people out, carrying plants, answering questions, +more!

May3rd+4th

16 Plant Sale

Chapter Banquet

We gave our Principal, Mrs. K, honorary membership this year. We recognized students with honor roll a scholarship pin, and all od the CDE participents.

May 8th

Italian beef, salad, macaroni salad, chips, drinks, and cake were served. Guests won the centerpeiceflowers if there was a peice of streamer under their seat.

55 guests + 17 members

F l a g P l a c i n g

To celebrate Memorial Day and honor fallen heroes, members worked with our local American Legion Post to place flags on graves.

6members helped

May 23rd