Charles City FFA members attend national convention
Charles City FFA members visited Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, where the Kentucky Derby is run, as part of a recent trip that included attendance at the FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Members that attended the convention were seniors Max Deeter, Bronson Forsyth, Lynn Hoeft and Anna Krumweide; juniors Gillian Anderson, Cael Ruzicka and Drew Staudt; sophomore Landon Luft; and freshmen Zach Chambers, Lily Luft, Ethan Peterson and Natalie White. Submitted photo
Charles City FFA members attended the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis last week. Pictured, front, Natalie White, Lily Luft, Lynn Hoeft, Bronson Forsyth, Zach Chambers, and Drew Staudt. Back, Anna Krumweide, Gillian Anderson, Max Deeter, Ethan Peterson, Cael Ruzicka, and Landon Luft. (Photo submitted.)
Charles City FFA members took a tour of the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Kentucky last week during the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Members that attended the convention were seniors Max Deeter, Bronson Forsyth, Lynn Hoeft, and Anna Krumweide; juniors Gillian Anderson, Cael Ruzicka, and Drew Staudt; sophomore Landon Luft; and freshmen Zach Chambers, Lily Luft, Ethan Peterson, and Natalie White. (Photo submitted.)
By James Grob, jgrob@charlescitypress.com
Members of the Charles City FFA traveled to Indianapolis recently for the National FFA Convention. While there, they took the opportunity to attend leadership skill workshops and meet FFA members from all over the country.
The 12 Charles City FFA members traveled to the convention with the FFA chapters from Nashua, Riceville, Rockford and St. Ansgar.
Every year, more than 70,000 FFA members, advisors and guests travel to Indiana to take part in what is said to be the largest youth leadership event in the nation.
While at the convention students attended sessions, took part in leadership workshops, went on tours of agricultural businesses and interacted with FFA members from around the country.
During the week, the members toured at the Wildlife Prairie Refuge in Hanna, Illinois, which is a wildlife rehabilitation center. They also traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, and visited the Louisville Slugger Museum to learn about agroforestry and how trees are selected and made in to baseball bats for both professional baseball and retail sales.
The students then took a tour of Churchill Downs, where the Kentucky Derby is run.
“These tours gave students a look at different sides of agriculture, which they don’t get to see in North Iowa,” said Charles City FFA instructor Bret Spurgin.
Besides the educational tours, the Charles City FFA took part in many different leadership activities. At the convention they attended general sessions where they heard many different motivational speakers, including the National FFA officers and Bob Goff, the New York Times bestselling author of “Love Does and Everybody Always,” present the keynote address.
According to Spurgin, most of the students said their favorite speeches of the convention where given by the National FFA President Luke O’Leary and the Southern Region Vice President Jordan Stowe.
The members also took part in leadership workshops and the FFA Blue Room, which was sponsored by Microsoft and emphasizes emerging technologies in agriculture.
Members that attended the convention were seniors Max Deeter, Bronson Forsyth, Lynn Hoeft and Anna Krumweide; juniors Gillian Anderson, Cael Ruzicka and Drew Staudt; sophomore Landon Luft; and freshmen Zach Chambers, Lily Luft, Ethan Peterson and Natalie White.
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