A student may not participate more than once in the same official national FFA career development event. Scholarships may be awarded at National FFA Career Development Events as funding is available.
EVENT RULES
EVENT FORMAT
EQUIPMENT
TEAM ACTIVITIES
AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS
- Guidelines for Proposal
- Topic for communications project proposal and presentation
- Communications project presentation
- INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES
- Tests
- SCORING
- TIEBREAKERS
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
- OBJECTIVES
- EVENT RULES
- EVENT FORMAT
Below are guidelines for the event/issue. Ten copies of the proposal are due to the National FFA. Criteria on which the project will be evaluated (these criteria should provide an indication of how well the project is achieving its stated objectives).
AGRICULTURAL ISSUES FORUM
- SCORING
- TIEBREAKERS
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
- Summary of the Issue (2 pages maximum) 5
- PURPOSE
Presentation judges will be provided with copies of the team portfolio, which they will use to formulate questions. The team with the lowest ranking of the answer to question will be declared the winner.
AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS
- TEAM MAKE-UP
- EQUIPMENT
- Needed- Safety Materials Students Must Provide E ach event participant must ad h ere to the safe practi ce s
- EVENT AREAS
- TEAM ACTIVITIES
- INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES
- Individual problem solving and skill development activities
- Written examination
- TIMELINE AND SCHEDULE
- This event is conducted on two consecutive days and activities are completed as follows
- EXAMPLES
The top five individuals and top five teams in each of the five systems areas will be recognized with a certificate. The goal of the FFA Agricultural Mechanics National Career Development Event is to lead and promote quality educational programs in agricultural mechanics.
SAMPLE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT THEME
- OBJECTIVE
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE
- SALES PROCESS
- MAINTAINING CUSTOMERS
The purpose of the Agriculture Sales Career Development Event is to provide an individual with the basic skills to take advantage of the career opportunities offered in the field of sales. Agricultural products benefit from sales capabilities, both for input to production and marketing of the products.
AGRICULTURAL SALES
EVENT RULES
Team Makeup – The event will be a team event consisting of four students. A team may compete with fewer than four members. Each jury consists of two judges and their scores are averaged.
EVENT FORMAT
TEAM ACTIVITY
- Analysis of the information (20 points), 20%
- Quality of the Team’s Solution (35 points),35%
- Presentation (10 points) 10%
- Questions are taken from:(10 points) 10%
- Objective Written Test
- Sales Presentation
- OBJECTIVES
Each participant will have fifteen (15) minutes for their sales presentation with a twelve (12) minute time warning. The contestant will receive the script and supporting materials ten (10) minutes prior to the event and will have ten (10) minutes to demonstrate their skills to the judges over the phone with a seven (7) minute warning.
AGRONOMY
TEAM ACTIVITY (1000 POINTS)
The team will need to develop both an oral presentation and a written plan that answers the question in the scenario. After preparation, the team must give an oral presentation justifying the decisions made by the team.
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES
- General Knowledge Examination (Total Possible 100 points) (60 Minutes) (50 questions)
- Annual Practicums (Total Possible 380 points) a. Identification – (180 points)
- Rotational Practicums (Total Possible 300 points)
- EXAMPLES
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Ten samples will be identified by insect name, life cycle, economic impact and mouthpart. Participants will be given a core sample to determine the class and/or subclass of the wheat.
CREED SPEAKING
TIEBREAKERS
The participant's low scores will be counted and the participant with the highest number of low scores will be declared the winner. If there is still a tie, the event manager will rank the participant's answers to the questions. The participant with the highest number of low marks from the answers to the questions will be declared the winner.
The participant with the highest total raw points will be declared the winner.
AWARDS
Questions will be selected from a database of questions developed by the Creed Speaking Career Development Event Committee. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please thoroughly read the Introduction section at the beginning of this handbook for complete rules and procedures relevant to all National FFA Career Development events.
DAIRY CATTLE
- Herd Record Evaluation
- SCORING
- TIEBREAKERS
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
Contestants will be allowed a close-up view of each cow as she is paraded near them. Two points will be awarded for each characteristic scored within four points of the official judges'. One point will be awarded for each attribute scored within five to six points of the official judges' score.
For classes on which oral arguments will be given, participants will be given a minimum of 15 minutes. Select those cows that will be the next five to calve, assuming breeding dates are accurate.
SAMPLE
Placing #2 over #4, the pedigree shows an advantage in overall PTPI (average of the father's TPI and the mother's CTPI) for #2. The TPI values for the mother and father of #2 are significantly higher than those for #4. The father's TPI value is higher, with PTAs higher in almost every category and the mother's transmission values in every category ( except FLC) are higher than that of #3's mother.
However, most transmission values are not as high as for #4's dam. Genetic values for dam #1 are not listed in the pedigree, but the PTPI for the heifer (pedigree) is given.
NATIONAL FFA DAIRY CATTLE EVENT
OBJECTIVE
To recognize the contribution of handlers in presenting each animal to its best advantage for dairy cattle participants in judging dairy cows and heifers during the National Dairy Cattle Career Development Event. Participants must be certified by the state advisor and meet the same membership rules as all other events held during the national FFA convention. A state may determine its dairy runner by one of the following methods: (a) Alternate member of the State Dairy Cattle Team, (b) lead driver at a state FFA event, and (c) any other method that prefers a state.
Keepers will not participate in either the preparation or final processing of assigned animals. Those selected as leaders report to the event supervisor for instructions at the time and place shown in the current year's "Program of State Events." It is important that all selected owners attend an informational/organizational meeting the day before the National Dairy Cattle Career Development Event and report on time the day of the event.
DAIRY CATTLE HANDLERS ’
Display a cooperative, courteous,helpful positive attitude 10 Total: 100
Develop the ability to use knowledge about the composition and quality characteristics of raw and pasteurized milk. To develop an understanding of the causes and control of mastitis, its effects on milk quality and yield, and the use of mastitis detection methods in the disease control of abnormal milk production.
DAIRY FOODS
- Milk Flavor Identification and Evaluation
- SEDIMENT
- CHEESE IDENTIFICATION
- PROBLEM SOLVING
Eight samples of milk will be evaluated for abnormality, using the California Mastitis Test method. All four members will be scored and all scores will count towards the total team score. The National FFA officers and National Board of Directors will be in charge of this event.
Participants will be assigned group leaders who will escort them to the various event venues. All participants will receive an identification number with which they will be marked throughout the event.
ENVIRONMENTAL/NATURAL RESOURCES
TEAM ACTIVITY (90 MINUTES IN LENGTH) (1000 POINTS TOTAL)
- Written Exam - Objective Test (100 points) (60 minutes)
- Annual Practicums
- Rotational Practicums
- TIEBREAKER
- Identify and list all non-living components found with the marked site. 10
Teams will be required to give an oral presentation justifying the decisions made by the team. Teams will have to answer questions related to the decision their team made. Students will be equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit and a map with points marked in longitude and latitude.
Students will be equipped with a scoreboard; interpretation guide and pre-excavated earth or core/monolith for judgment. National FFA Extemporaneous Speaking Career Development Event The event will be limited to one participant from each state association.
EXTEMPORANEOUS PUBLIC SPEAKING
EVENT OBJECTIVES
Apply economic principles and concepts of agricultural business in the decision-making process.
ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES RELATED TO FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
CONCEPTS RELATED TO THE USE AND ANALYSIS OF RECORDS TO MANAGE
CONCEPTS AND FUNCTIONS OF RISK MANAGEMENT
Team composition- A team consists of three or four members. A team score consists of the total of the top three individual scores on the written exam plus the team score on the team activity. The team activity evaluates the ability of a team's members to work together to use decision-making and problem analysis skills while applying economic principles and concepts taught in farm business management. The team activity involves the use of farm business management skills and the resource information used for the written examination of the current year's event.
All topics in the outline under the event objectives section can be included in the team activity. The team activity is worth 300 points per team and is only included in the team score.
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY
- Written Exam
- EVENT SCORING
- EXAMPLES
Microcomputers can be included as a tool to complete any of the sections of the event. It can be used to determine the future value of the amount you now have. MARKETING- All the processes and services involved in moving a good from the producer to the final consumer.
PARTIAL BUDGETING- Comparison of anticipated costs and returns associated with some change in business operation. STORED CROPS - Crops in inventory where the market value of the crop has not yet been received.
FLORICULTURE
- Team Activity (200 points)
- Identification Of Plant Materials (200 points) Forty specimens from the Floriculture Plant Identification
- General Knowledge Examination (250 points) Fifty objective-type multiple choice questions will be writ-
- Problem-Solving/Decision-Making (200 points)
- Practicum (525 points)
Each participant is given 50 minutes to complete this phase of the event. Each correct solution is worth 20 points. The participants get five minutes to dialogue with the customer and fill in the sales slip. 10 minutes will be given to complete this practice, including judging potted plant cuttings.
Twenty minutes will be allowed for each participant to make his/her dish garden and complete the itemized bill. Ten minutes will be allowed for the completion of this practicum, including the evaluation of the participant's performance at the end of the practicum.
FLORICULTURE PLANT IDENTIFICATION LIST
FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Test
- Practicums
- TEAM OR INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES
- Team Activity (250 points)
- General Knowledge Exam (100 points)
- Cooperative Test
- Forestry Issues Interview (100 points)
- Tree Identification (90 points)
- Equipment Identification (60 points)
- Forestry Applications
- feet off
Each participant will receive ten (10) photos of potential food safety and/or hygiene issues. Any violation of this rule will be sufficient to disqualify the team from the competition. 50 targeted multiple-choice questions will be selected from areas of the forestry industry that are reflected in the goals of the event.
Time: Each participant will have 45 minutes to complete this phase of the event. Wood products/specimens will be presented in one or more of the following forms:.
HORSE EVALUATION
ACTIVITIES
JOB INTERVIEW
Letter should be addressed to the Superintendent of the Career Development Event and dated for the first day of the event. Students will be provided with computers with word processing applications to compose and type a follow-up letter. Participant's low ranks will be counted and the participant with the highest number of low ranks will be declared the winner.
The participant with the greatest number of low scores from the answer to the question will be declared the winner. When new criteria are adopted, information will be forwarded to all states by January 1 of the event year by the National FFA Teacher Services Specialist responsible for career development events.
LIVESTOCK
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT
MARKETING PLAN
TEAM ACTIVITY-
- WRITTEN PLAN- 35 POINTS
- LIVE PRESENTATION – 65 POINTS
- TIEBREAKER
Specific measuring instruments for measuring. the achievement of the objectives at the end of the period. Twenty copies of the marketing plan must be submitted to the National FFA Center, postmarked on or before September 15 prior to the National FFA Convention. The presentation is followed by up to five minutes of “clarification” questions, with at least one question for each member of the team.
The focus of the presentation should be on the top management of an agribusiness or farm. Evidence of meaningful original market research) Effectiveness of the presentation 10 points (Organization, professionalism, effectiveness of images and adherence to guidelines.).
