State Champion Career Development Event Participants (listed from left to right) Bottom Row- Jesse Neff, Ginna Climer, Bethany Reiterman, Abbie Noble, Cody Clyburn, Tyler Horney, Barbara Sears, Brooke Mossbarger, Evan Schaefer, Charlie Miller, and Sara Rowland. Top Row- Sam MacGregor, Kameron Rinehart, Brock Wilt, Riley Evans, Zach Ault, Blake Pitstick, Katie Frost, Ryan Souther, and Tabitha Morris.
Recently, the Miami Trace FFA Chapter attended the State FFA Convention held at the Ohio State Expo Center. The Chapter attended convention sessions, and listened to four guest speakers Christopher Coleman, Josh Shipp, Jeff Civillico, and Wiley Bailey, Southern Region National Vice President. These speakers entertained the crowd and gave inspiring messages that helped improve member’s leadership skills.
Sam Jones, a Miami Trace Senior, represented our chapter in the State FFA Band. Miami Trace excelled this year in State Career Development Events. We had five state winning Career Development Event teams this year. The Grain Merchandising team received 1st out of 33 teams participating and 207 individuals, team member Evan Schaefer(1st) Charlie Miller (3rd), Ryan Souther (5th), and Tyler Horney (19th). The Dairy Foods placed 1st out of 35 teams participating and 125 individuals team consisted of Judith Straathof (1st), Nicole Straathof (2nd), Evan Schaefer (4th), and Jesse Neff (42nd). The Dairy Cattle judging team placed 1st out of 52 teams, team members were Barbara Sears (6th), Ginna Climer(7th), Sam MacGregor (8th), and Brooke Mossbarger (22nd). The Equine team placed 1st out of 133 teams and 658 individuals, team members were Blake Pitstick (3rd), Tabitha Morris (4th), Abbie Noble (9th) and Bethany Reiterman (35th). The General Livestock team placed 2nd out of 145 teams and 753 individuals. The team members were Jacob Rose (6th), Caleb Penwell (7th), Caroline Hughes (17th), and Brock Wilt (30th). The Meats team placed 2nd, out of 22 teams and 103 individuals team members were Cheyenne Wright (7th), Mikayla Mick (8th), Kayla Clyburn (9th), and Blayne Toth (10th).
The Novice Parliamentary Procedure team was recognized for winning state. The team consists of Riley Evans, Sara Rowland, Ginna Climer, Kameron Rinehart, Zach Ault, Bethany Reiterman, and Brock Wilt. Riley Evans interviewed as a finalist for the Greenhand Quiz CDE, he was 1st in the state. Katie Frost was recognized as the high individual in the Agricultural Communications Career Development Event. The Dairy Foods, Dairy Cattle, Horse and Novice Parliamentary Procedure will teams will compete in the National Contest in October.
Other awards included officers who received Gold Star ratings on their officer books. Hannah Peterson and Tori Wilt received the reporter’s book gold pin, and Sam MacGregor and Evan Schaefer received the treasurer’s book gold pin. Also, Riley Evans received 1st place and a gold rating for his Agriscience Fair Project.
As a chapter we received a gold rating in the State. The Miami Trace FFA Chapter would like to congratulate all members for their hard work over the past year and wish all students participating in upcoming national contests good luck!