By Liam Few, FFA Reporter Churchill County FFA is planning for an exciting year! We have a new officer team, a new Ag Teacher and we have amazing members and Alumni. We kicked this year off with the Greenhand and Colt training. Then we continued the great year with our amazing CDE teams and the Fall Classic Trap Shoot!
Speaking: Liam Few Next, CCFFA has a new Ag teacher, Ms. Johnson! She has a lot of plans for the chapter, most of which are to help better the chapter and the events in which the chapter participates. Included in these plans will be cleaning up and bringing the greenhouses back to their proper use. Ms. Johnson also wants to start working with the program's test plot and correcting the chapter's finances. The goal is to work with our chapter's members and alumni to create the ultimate environment for our chapter's success.
This brings us to our first major event of this school year: the Greenhand and Colt training, which happened on September 20, 2022. This event is a great opportunity for new FFA members to learn about FFA, our creed, our standards, and our goals as a national community. By attending the Greenhand event, FFA members learn the basic knowledge of FFA and can apply to earn their Greenhand degree, which is one of the first steps to becoming a life-long FFA member.
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To start, in May we had our annual FFA banquet. The night started off with an amazing silent auction and dinner. We continued with the awards ceremony in which we talked about all the wonderful achievements from the previous year. However, the greatest part of the night was when our new officer team was announced! We all thanked our retiring officers for their hard work and dedication to the Churchill County FFA chapter and they then called the role of our new officers. The 2022-2023 school year CCFFA officers are as follows: Caitlyn Dock as President, Addison Diaz as Vice-President, Madison Gregory as Secretary, Jeremiah Prinz as our Treasurer, Liam Few as the Reporter, Kara Herbert as Sentinel and finally Dana Buckmaster as Historian! While the Greenhand training was happening, our FFA officers were in the Chapter Officer Leadership Training event (COLT). This is a very useful event to help Officers to learn to work as a team. This allows the officers to provide a much better experience for the chapter members. The training first started with an ice breaker activity. This allowed us to get to know other chapter officers better and learn how they run their chapters. This continued through the morning as we discussed, learned about, and interacted with the other chapters. Thanks to the knowledge we gained from this, our officer team is planning on having a great year as we work toward our goals as a closer officer team.
Finally, the most recent event our chapter participated in was the Trap Club’s Fall Classic. All attending members were to go through a training on Thursday, September 22, and the shoot started the next day, Friday, September 23 and lasted until Sunday, September 25. We helped score the shooters, reload
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the throwers and at the end of the night we served dinner for the Basque Shoot. Our chapter has been helping in this event for the past couple years! This is an amazing event that we are proud to be able to help with, and we hope to be able to help with it again next year.
In conclusion, the Churchill County FFA chapter is planning for a great year. We have attended many events to help build and strengthen the chapter in many different ways. It all started when our new officers were elected in May. Then we got a new Ag teacher/ advisor over the summer. We also participated in the Greenhand and COLT training, and were asked to help out at the Trap Club’s Fall Classic in which we thankfully obliged. Now we are planning many more events for the upcoming year.
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