Winlock FFA
The Winlock FFA Chapter has been devoted to improving student lives since 1935. It has been accomplishing this thru premier leadership, personal growth, and career success. The chapter is based at Winlock High School in Winlock, WA. The chapter is composed of 91 middle school and high school students. The students have many opportunities in which they can help fulfill the goals of the chapter.
The first opportunity members have is to participate in local chapter activities. These activities include chapter meetings; Meetings in the evening where members have the opportunity to discuss and vote on what activities they will organize in the month to come, and chemically free nights; Fun nights which follow our meetings to expose member to exciting activities without the presence of drugs and alcohol. The students also have many opportunities to help out their community. Some of the community devolvement activities members participate in are; Walk n’ Knock, Grandparent’s Day (students serve grandparents and their grandchildren lunch at the elementary school), and assisting the firemen with their Thanksgiving Turkey Bingo.
Since Winlock is a rural area in southern Lewis County, most of our members have agriculture related projects, which we called Supervised Agricultural Experience Project (SAEP). SAEPs are broken down into two major groups: entrepreneurship; the student owns the animal or the business, and placement; the student works for an employer. These SAEPs, which members participate in, range from large animal breeding and marketing to outdoor recreation. Each spring members have the chance to apply for rewards corresponding to their project. This year we have two students who have been selected as state finalists in their SAEPs, Andrew Lynch in Agricultural Sales Placement, and Kara Givens in Outdoor Recreation Placement.
Career Devolvement Events (CDEs) enable members to learn skills that they can use later in life. These competitions allow students to show what skills they are learning through their agricultural programs. The students can compete in leadership CDEs that test skill necessary for the business world, or they can compete in technical CDE’s which test their skills for a specific career field, such as Food Sciences or Soil Testing. At Winlock we try to emphasize participation in CDEs. At state we will have students participating in Meats Evaluation, Food Sciences, Extemporaneous Speaking, and 1st Year Greenhand.
As we look to the future, we hope we can continue to provide the students of our high school and middle school the opportunities for personal growth, premier leadership, and career success. We cannot do this alone, and we thank you for your support to us and hope you will continue to give us your support in order to achieve our goals and make our nation a better place.