Members who received their State FFA Degree: (Left to Right) Katie Frost, Mikayla Mick, Hunter Hobbs, Blayne Toth, Sam Macgregor, Courtney Miller, Kayla Clyburn, Allison Rife, Brooke Mossbarger, Heather Johnston, Chas Grover, Evan Schaefer, Hannah Peterson, and Gus Mitchem
The highest honor that a State FFA Organization can bestow is the State FFA Degree. In order for a member to receive a state degree, he or she needs to earn a gross profit of $3,500 or have worked a minimum of 500 hours for his or her Supervised Agricultural Experience project.
In addition, they must productively invest a minimum of $1000. They need to have 25 hours of community development service and 10 hours of home improvement. Members must also participate in at least 2 Career Development Events, participate in 5 activities above the chapter level, and maintain at least a 93% attendance rate or a 3.75 GPA.
The 14 members receiving the degree are the most degrees posted in one year in Miami Trace FFA chapter history.
These recipients are Allison Rife, Hannah Peterson, Evan Schaefer, Brooke Mossbarger, Gus Mitchem, Blayne Toth, Chas Grover, Heather Johnston, Hunter Hobbs, Katie Frost, Kayla Clyburn, Courtney Miller, Sam Macgregor, and Mikayla Mick. These members walked across the stage at the 85th Ohio FFA Convention and shook the hand of retiring State FFA President, Shelby Faulkner. Throughout the state of Ohio, 752 FFA members received this honor.