The National FFA organization should assume the leadership role in the development and continuous improvement of relevant FFA career development opportunities. A student may not participate in the same official National FFA Career Development event more than once.
TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Participants will report to the National FFA Convention as indicated in the Annual Team Orientation Packet. All written tests used in National FFA Career Development Events will be available for sale through the National FFA Catalog effective January following each Career Development Event.
NATIONAL FFA AWARD, RECOGNITION AND CAREER
PURPOSE
Public information about agricultural products, practices and policies is essential for the future of agriculture. Students equipped with strong communication skills and able to use various media to help the public understand issues related to the agricultural industry have a bright future in the job market.
EVENT FORMAT
The purpose of the Agricultural Communications Career Development Event is to provide individuals with basic communication skills necessary to take advantage of career opportunities in agricultural communications.
Team Make-up
AGRICULTURAL
COMMUNICATIONS
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Equipment
- Team Activities
- Guidelines for Proposal
- Topic for communications project proposal and presentation
- Communications project presentation (150 points/team)
- Presentation rounds
- Individual Activities 1. Tests
- Practicums
- SCORING
- TIEBREAKERS
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
The National FFA Agricultural Communications Career Development Event is limited to one team per state. Each team has 15 minutes to present their communication project to a jury.
COMMUNICATION PROJECT PROPOSAL SCORECARD
COMMUNICATION PROJECT PRESENTATION SCORECARD
NEWS WRITER STORY PRACTICUM
PRESS RELEASE WRITER PRACTICUM
BROADCASTER’S RECORDING PRACTICUM
WEB DESIGN PRACTICUM
TEAM SCORECARD
OBJECTIVES
To provide an opportunity to expose a wide variety of students to the selection, research, planning and presentation of an agricultural issue. To become aware of and familiar with a variety of local, state, national and international issues facing agriculture.
EVENT RULES
AGRICULTURAL ISSUES FORUM
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- EVENT FORMAT
- SCORING
- Team Presentation
- Portfolio: 10 single sided pages maximum or 5 double sided pages
- TIEBREAKERS
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
Presentation judges will be provided with copies of the team portfolio to use to formulate questions. The team with the highest number of low ranks from the answer to the question will be declared the winner.
PORTFOLIO
The portfolio should contain points described in sections 6a, 6b and 6c of the guidelines and is limited to a maximum of ten pages single-sided [5 pages double-sided]. Ten copies of the portfolio must be sent to the Career Development Event Program Manager, National FFA Center postmarked no later than September 15 prior to the National FFA Convention at which the issue is to be presented.
TEAM PRESENTATION
Technological advancements in America continue to influence the way students prepare for their futures. The most desirable employees are those who communicate effectively, continue to stay current with modern technology, and work successfully as individuals and as team members.
AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Team Make-Up
- Needed- Safety Materials Students Must Provide
- Event Areas
- Individual Activities
- Individual problem solving and skill development activities
- Written examination
- Schedule of Theme Announcement Agricultural mechanics theme for the career
- EXAMPLES
- Event-Related Competencies
- Machinery/Equipment Systems Competencies
- Industry and Marketing Systems Competencies
- Energy Systems Competencies Problem Solving
- Environmental and Natural Resources Systems Competencies
- Structures Systems Competencies Problem Solving
- General Skills
The purpose of the FFA National Agricultural Mechanics Career Development Event is to lead and promote quality educational programs in agricultural mechanics. It is the intent of the national event committee to reflect current technological practices common to the agricultural production industry.
SAMPLE THEME
- OBJECTIVE
- Communication Skills 1. Verbal Communication
- Product Knowledge
- Sales Process
The purpose of the Agricultural Sales Career Development Opportunity is to provide an individual with the basic skills to take advantage of the career opportunities offered in agriculture.
AGRICULTURAL SALES
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Maintaining Customers
- EVENT RULES
- EVENT FORMAT
- Team Sales Situation (200 Points) The Team Sales Situation is the team activity
- Analysis of the information (40 points), 20%
- Presentation (20 points) 10%
- Questions are Taken From: (20 points) 10%
- Individual Activities
- Objective Written Test (100 points) The objective test of the Agricultural Sales Career
- Sales Call (100 points)
- Practicums - Sales Situations (100 Points /Individual)
- SCORING
- TIEBREAKERS
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
Each participant will have fifteen (15) minutes for their sales call with a twelve (12) minute time warning. One of the following three sales situations will be selected and announced at the team orientation meeting.
Sales and Service, Mike Martin
If a tie occurs in the individual scores, the highest sales call score will break the tie. If the tie cannot be broken with the sales call score, the highest written test score will be used. If a tie still exists, the highest sales situation score will be used to break the tie.
TEAM SALES SITUATION
SALES CALL
CUSTOMER RELATIONS ACTIVITY
ORDER TAKING/CUSTOMER SERVICE PRACTICUM
PROSPECTING FOR NEW CUSTOMERS
AGRONOMY
OBJECTIVES
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
Equipment
Calculators used with the event must be battery operated, non-programmable, silent with large keys and large displays. Coaches will be notified in the team's orientation packet if computers will be used at the event and if they will be provided or must be supplied by the team.
Team Activity (1000 Points)
Each year the team event scenario will be selected from a harvest region of the country. An example of the team activity can be found in Section VIII at the end of Agronomy CDE area.
NATIONAL FFA AGRONOMY CDE REGIONAL AREAS
Individual Activities
101 black nastergall plant and sap Solanum nigrum or Solanum ptycanthum 102 breeblar plantain plant and sap Plantago major. 103 bokhoring plantain plant and seed Plantago lanceolata 104 bull thistle* plant and seed Cirsium vulgare 105 Canada thistle* plant and seed Cirsium arvense. 108 common cockerel bush plant and seed Stellaria media 109 common cockerel bush plant and seed ash bur Xanthium strumarium 110 common lamb quartz plant and seed Chenopodium album.
WEED PLANTS AND/OR SEEDS (USDA NOXIOUS WEEDS DENOTED BY *)–
112 common milkweed plant and seeds Asclepias syriaca 113 common mullein plant and seeds Verbascum thapsus 114 common purslane plant and seeds Portulaca oleracea 115 common ragweed plant and seeds Ambrosia artemisiifolia 116 common sunflower plant and annuusthus Helianthus. 136 nightshade, silver plant and seed Solanum elaeagnifolim 137 nut sedge* plant and seed as Nutlet Cyperus spp. 143 red root pig plant and seed Amaranthus retroflexus 144 Russian thistle plant and seed Salsola pestifer 145 shepherd's spur plant and seed Capsella bursa-pastoris.
CROP PLANTS AND/OR SEEDS –
Weeds marked with * in the event weeds list are considered
Points are awarded for correctly identifying the seed based on the number of impurities in the sample. Participants are given a baseline sample to determine the class and/or subclass of grain. Participants receive written information about grain samples (i.e. test weight, moisture, odor and information about special grades).
EXAMPLES
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
109 common cockle tree plant and saad ash bur Xanthium strumarium 110 common lamb's quarter plant and saad Chenopodium album.
WEEDS
CROPS LIST
CODES FOR IDENTIFICATION MACHINERY IDENTIFICATION
AGRONOMY PLANT IDENTIFICATION LIST (Weeds and Crops) Page 1
AGRONOMY PLANT IDENTIFICATION LIST (Weeds and Crops) Page 2
AGRONOMIC DISORDERS PRACTICUM
332 tobacco/tomato hornworm larva 333 Western corn rootworm beetle 334 western flower thrips 335 whitefly 336 whitefly 337 wireworm Economic impact 050 Gene or predator 051 Fruit/Flower destruction 052 Vegetative fluid Life destruction of plant.
INSECT IDENTIFICATION PRACTICUM
GRAIN GRADING SCORE SHEET (USDA)
Analysis of Information
The National FFA Creed Speaking Career Development Event will be limited to one participant per state, must qualify in 7th, 8th or 9th grade, and must participate in the next national. The National FFA Creed Speaking Career Development Event will follow the general rules and policies for all National FFA Career Development Events. 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.
NATIONAL FFA
The FFA Creed is recited by FFA members as part of the requirements to earn the Greenhand degree. The purpose of the Creed Speaking Career Development Event is to develop the public speaking skills of 7th, 8th and 9th grade FFA members as well as to develop their confidence and contribute to their advancement in FFA education. The National FFA Officers and the National FFA Board of Directors will emcee this event.
CREED SPEAKING
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
Other placements will be determined in the same way (low score method of selection). 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 most low ranking from the answer to questions will be declared the winner.
DAIRY CATTLE EVALUATION
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- EQUIPMENT
- TEAM ACTIVITY
- Herd Record Evaluation
- INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES 1. Dairy Management Exercise (150
- Pedigree Class (50 points)
- Sire Selection Exercise (100 points) a. The sire selection exercise requires
- Linear Evaluation (150 points) a. Five Holstein cows will be evaluated
- Evaluation and Selection (300 points) a. Six classes of four dairy animals will
- Oral Reasons (150 points)
Participants get a close-up view of each cow as she is paraded past them. One point is awarded for each trait scored within five to six points of the official judges score. Participants are allowed to view the animals from all angles, but are not allowed to handle them.
BEST ANSWERS” FOR
DAIRY CATTLE EVALUATION - HERD RECORD EVALUATION (Collaborative Team Exercise)
DAIRY CATTLE EVALUATION - HERD RECORD EVALUATION Rationale
SAMPLE
NATIONAL FFA DAIRY CATTLE EVENT DAIRY MANAGEMENT EXERCISE
SAMPLE FORM
NATIONAL FFA DAIRY CATTLE EVALUATION Official reasons for placing pedigree class
NATIONAL FFA DAIRY CATTLE EVENT SIRE SELECTION PROBLEM No. 1
NATIONAL FFA DAIRY CATTLE EVENT SIRE SELECTION PROBLEM No. 2
NATIONAL FFA DAIRY CATTLE EVALUATION Sire Selections Rational
Official reasons for placing sire selection classes
OBJECTIVE
To recognize the contributions 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 Judging Event. Participants must meet the same membership rules as all other events held during the National FFA Convention. Each country is entitled to nominate one member to participate in the dairy.
DAIRY CATTLE HANDLERS’
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- SCORING (100 POINTS)
Those selected as handlers will report to the event superintendent for instructions at the time and place indicated in the current year's team orientation packet. Those who do not report the day before the event or on time to the event will be replaced by approved substitutes. Evaluation and scoring of each competitor will be conducted by a person or persons designated by the event superintendent.
SCORECARD
The focus of this Career Development Event is on achieving high quality raw milk, federal milk marketing orders and characteristics of selected milk products. There are four general areas or functions in the network of individuals that enable consumers' enjoyment of high-quality dairy products. Preventing contamination of the milk with added water, antibiotics, pesticides, detergents and disinfectants, medicines and other foreign substances.
DAIRY FOODS
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- S. Food and Drug Administration
- Develop abilities to utilize knowledge of high quality milk production
- Develop abilities to utilize knowledge of milk marketing
- Develop abilities to utilize knowledge of the composition and quality characteristics
- Develop an understanding of the causes and control of mastitis, its influences
- Be able to identify cheese varieties
- Be able to identify and evaluate the flavor quality of milk
- Be able to identify dairy products and non-dairy products (imitations and
- Be able to identify defects of milker unit parts affecting milk quality
- Materials provided by the student- two
- Flow of Event
- TEAM ACTIVITY
- INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES
- Milk Flavor Identification and Evaluation (36 minutes) (120 points)
- Milker Unit Parts (18 Minutes) (40 points) 1. Five sets of milker unit parts to be scored on
- Cheese Identification (18 Minutes) (20 points)
- California Mastitis Test (18 minutes) (64 points)
- Dairy and Non-dairy products (18 minutes) (20 points)
- Problem Solving (36 Minutes) (25 Points) 1. Decisions about the quality and
- Written Test (36 Minutes) (100 points) The written test will be comprised of a total
- TIEBREAKERS
- SCORING
- AWARDS
- REFERENCES
Ten milk samples will be scored for taste (taste and smell) using the computerized scorecard. Eight samples of milk will be assessed for abnormality using the California Mastitis Test method. All participants will be given an identification number with which they will be designated throughout the event.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL
Environmental and natural resource education has the responsibility of providing an educated public and providing students prepared to enter careers in the environmental and natural resource industry. The purpose of the environmental and natural resource career development event is to stimulate student interest and promote environmental and natural resource learning in the agricultural education curriculum and to provide recognition for those who have demonstrated skills and competencies as an environmental outcome. and natural resource guidelines. Any team, team member or coach reported and found to be doing so will cause that team to be eliminated from competing in the FFA National Environment and Natural Resources Career Development Event.
RESOURCES
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Team Activity (90 minutes in length) (1,000 points total)
- Written Exam - Objective Test (100 points) (60 minutes)
- Annual Practicums
- TIEBREAKER
Teams must answer questions regarding the decision their team made. Students receive a . sample of soil and test kit. will need to determine the current levels of:. Students receive a scorecard; an interpretation guide and a pre-dug soil pit or core/monolith for assessment.
IDENTIFICATION LIST
Identify and list as many organisms (both native and invasive) as can be found within the marked boundaries of this site.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS SCORECARD
GPS LOCATION SCORECARD
NATIONAL GLOBAL ISSUES INTERVIEW SCORECARD
PRESS RELEASE WRITING SCORECARD
SOIL NUTRIENT TEST SCORECARD
TEAM ACTIVITY SCORECARD
MANAGEMENT PLAN (WRITTEN PRESENTATION SCORE CARD)
WATER ANALYSIS SCORECARD
SOIL PROFILE SCORECARD PART 1
0ver)
- Depth of Soil (5 points possible) 1. Deep
- Erosion – Wind and Water (5 points possible)
- Permeability (5 points possible) 1. Rapid
- Surface Runoff (5 points possible) 1. Rapid
- Land Capability Class (15 points possible)
SOIL PROFILE SCORECARD
Fertilizer and Soil Amendments (15 points possible) 21. Soil amendments
The National FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking Career Development Event is designed to develop the ability of all FFA members to express themselves on a given topic without having previously prepared or rehearsed its content. The National FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking Career Development Event will be limited to one participant from each state association. A member representing a state association may participate in the National FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking Career Development Event only once.
EXTEMPORANEOUS PUBLIC SPEAKING
1 CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Content related to topic (300 points)
- Power of Expression (100 points)
- Stage Presence (100 points)
- General Effect (100 points)
- Response to questions (100 points)
- EVENT OBJECTIVES
- Economic Principles Related to Farm Business Management
A list of all possible topics will be given to the judges prior to the start of the event and reviewed by the judges. The contestant's low ranks will be counted and the contestant with the highest number of low ranks will be declared the winner. The participant with the lowest ranking from the answer to question will be declared the winner.
FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Concepts Related to the Use and Analysis of Records to Manage Resources
- Concepts and Functions of Risk Management
- Team Activity
- Individual Activity
- EVENT SCORING
The team activity assesses the ability of members of a team to work together to use decision-making and problem analysis skills by applying economic principles and concepts learned in farm business management. The team activity includes the use of farm business management skills and resource information used for the current year's event written exam. The written exam tests participants' ability to use decision-making and problem analysis skills by applying economic principles and concepts learned in farm business management.
NATIONAL FFA FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CDE (Front)
NATIONAL FFA FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CDE (Back)
FLORICULTURE
- Phase 1 - Identification of Plant Materials (200 points)
- Phase 2 - General Knowledge Examination (250 points)
- Phase 3 - Problem-Solving/Decision- Making (200 points)
- Phase 4 - Practicum (525 points) Each participant will complete the flower
- Selling One-On-One
Scoring criteria are presented on the “Flower Arrangement Practice” scorecard which will be scored by a judge. Scoring criteria are presented on the "Job Interview Practicum" scorecard which will be recorded by a judge. Scoring criteria are presented on the “Plant Potting Practicum” scorecard which will be recorded by a judge.
FLORAL ARRANGEMENT PRACTICUM SCORECARD
Arrangement 65
EXPLANATION OF FLORAL ARRANGEMENT TERMS
FLORAL ARRANGEMENT ITEMIZED BILL
JOB INTERVIEW PRACTICUM SCORECARD
TELEPHONE SALES PRACTICUM SCORECARD
SELLING ONE-ON-ONE PRACTICUM SCORECARD
PLANT POTTING PRACTICUM SCORECARD
MAKING A DISH GARDEN SCORECARD
MAKING A PRODUCT DISPLAY SCORECARD
MAKING AND PACKING A CORSAGE SCORECARD
ASEXUAL PLANT PROPAGATION SCORECARD
CONTROL OF PLANT DISORDERS SCORECARD [For plants with insect or disease disorders]
IDENTIFYING AND PRESCRIBING TREATMENT FOR PLANT DISORDERS SCORECARD
PINCHING PLANTS SCORECARD
HAZARDOUS SITUATION SCORECARD
CUSTOMER COMPLAINT SCORECARD
COMPUTER USE SCORECARD
MEDIA SELLING PRACTICUM SCORECARD [Newspaper Ad]
MEDIA SELLING PRACTICUM SCORECARD [Television Ad]
Team make-up- The team will consist of four members with all four members’ scores
FOOD SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT
- Individual Activities 1. Test
Each team will receive the packaging materials, ingredients and information needed for each ingredient to develop the final product label. The objective questions administered during the Food Science and Technology exam will be designed to determine whether each team member understands the basic principles of food science and technology. Each participant will have one minute at each station before being told to move to a new station.
