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Madison County High School FFA December Newletter!TRANSCRIPT
Through the month of No-
vember the Madison
County High School FFA
collected can good items
to donate to the Madison
County Food Bank for the
Thanksgiving season. In a
three week time period
the FFA Chapter members
and agriculture students
collected 503 can good or
non perishable items to
donate. On the Friday be-
fore Thanksgiving
Holidays the chap-
ter boxed and deliv-
ered the over 500
food items to the
Madison County
Food Bank just in
time for the holi-
days. That’s on av-
erage one can per
student in the FFA
Chapter. “There are
so many who do not
have enough to eat
on a daily bases
right here in this county
and while we are all eat-
ing our Thanksgiving
Day meal and have lots
left over there will be
some that have noth-
ing.” MCHS FFA Advisor,
Trisha Lastly says. “This
is just our small way of
helping others and
teaches our students to
serve others.”
The MCHS FFA Chapter
is also collecting
toys for tots through
the month of De-
cember for Christ-
mas, can tabs
throughout the en-
tire school year for
Ronald McDonald
House, for those
children with cancer
and will be making
and packaging box-
es for the soldiers
and sending the
care packages
overseas. If you
would like to do-
nate your time, money
or items to the com-
mittee service pro-
jects please feel free
to call the school or
contact Trisha Lastly,
Josh White, Kay
Farmer or Cindy
Jones the Madison
County High School
FFA Advisors.
FFA Chapter Collects OVER 500 Can
Food Items for Madison Co Food Bank
Upcoming Coming Events:
Collection for the Troops
Greenhand Jamboree/Career Success Leadership Confer-ences Deposits Due January
31st
Club Day Meetings Every 1st
Wednesday of the Month
Young Farmer Meeting Every
2nd Thursday of the month.
December Supporter of the Month the
Madison County FFA Alumni
For the month of
December our chapter has
chosen our very own FFA
Alumni Chapter to be our
supporter of the month.
The FFA Alumni
donates monies for scholar-
ships to seniors, trip fees
and registrations as well has
offers support to the stu-
dents and agriculture teach-
ers in the chapter year
round. Thank you FFA Alum-
ni for always being there to
help us out in every way!
Above: Kevin Jones, Tatum Harris and Casie Wade deliver over 500 can food items to the Madison Co Food Bank before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Inside this issue:
State CDE Placings 2
CDE Placings—Wiring 2
CDE Placings—Ag Mechanics 3
CDEs Livestock Judging,, Ag
Sales, Ag Comm, & Floriculture 3
Student Spotlight—Jessica
Baxter
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Volume 3, Issue 4
12/21/2011
MCHS FFA DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Above the MC FFA Alumni members with FFA members as Supporter of the Month.
Recently Bailey Seabolt traveled
to the State Floral Design Career
Development Event, held in Tifton,
GA at Abraham Baldwin Agricultur-
al College. Bailey worked very
hard for weeks on perfecting her
floral designing skills. In the State
Junior Floral Design CDE student
would have to make two of the
following designs: bud vase, cen-
ter piece, boutonniere or corsage.
The contest is timed and judged
by actual florists. This year the
contests had to make a boutonni-
ere and a corsage in 1 hours time.
Bailey placed Madison County FFA
member’s highest, 4th. There
were 12 students in the State
CDE and they had all qualified on
the area level first placing either
1st or 2nd. Congratulations to
Bailey and all her hard work to
make it to that state CDE and
place as high as she did. Also she
would like to say a special THANK
YOU to the Danielsville Florist and
to Jeff Studwell at Daffodil Hill for
all of their support and work with
her practicing.
Kevin also had to show safety skills,
take a problem solving test, give a
speech over wiring and take a gen-
eral knowledge test. Kevin Jones,
MCHS junior will travel to the STATE
CDE in a month’s time to compete in
the state wide wiring contest in Fort
Valley. Kevin’s mother and father are
Joe and Cindy Jones of Commerce.
The Madison County High School FFA
member Kevin Jones recently com-
peted in the Area 2 FFA Jackson EMC
wiring Career Development Event.
The event was held on December
10th, 2011. Kevin Jones, placed 2nd
out of more than 20 students in the
Area II Wring CDE. This contest allows
the student to demonstrate their
skills in not only their wiring skills but
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Job Interview and Land placing 6th
on the State Level
Jackson EMC Area Wiring CDE - Going to STATE
Morgan Dooley. This team placed 6th in
the contest where they had to measure
slope, grade land and recommend the
land for productions. This
team was trained by Josh
White.
Stephanie Hilburn competed in
the event of Job Interview and also placed
6th on the State Level. Stephanie had to
develop a resume, interview for a job, fill
out an application and write a follow up
letter to the employer. Job Interview is
trained by Kay Farmer.
In the event of Land Judging the
Madison County FFA Senior Team trav-
eled to Tifton, GA and competed on the
state land judging CDE.
This team consisted of
Olivia Minish, Bri Kittle,
Savannah Roberts and
Volume 3, Issue 4
Above is Bailey Seabolt with her designs placing 4th in the state.
“I enjoy land judging
because you get to get your
hands dirty for contest!” -
Bri Kittle
Seabolt Places 4th on the State Level in Floral Design
Kevin Jones repre-senting us at the STATE CDE SOON! Light it UP KEV!
MCHS FFA December Newsletter
The MCHS FFA Agricultural Mechan-
ics Team recently competed in the
Area 2 FFA Agricultural Mechanics
Career Development Event. The
event was held at Franklin County
High School on December 8th. Team
members Kevin Jones, team high
individual and overall 2nd high indi-
vidual in the contest out of more
than 60 students in the contest,
senior Mark Pullam, Judd Stratton
and Dusty Guest participated in
individual problem solving and skill
development activities and took a
written examination.
The event included sub-
ject matter associated
with machinery and
equipment systems and
energy systems. This
team placed 6th and re-
ceived a gold emblem for
their ranking in the top
1/3 of the teams com-
peting. This team was
trained by the agriculture
mechanic teacher, Josh
White.
ing and market beef, sheep, and swine, and
then give oral reasons to the judges as to why
they placed each class as they did. MCHS FFA
Senior Team members include Kevin Jones,
Tyler Arnold, Olivia Minish and Garrett Whit-
worth. The Madison County High School
ninth grade FFA Livestock Judging CDE
team members included: Travis Tankersley
and Levi Simmons and Makayla Kellum.
Both junior and senior livestock judging
teams were trained by MCHS Agricultural
Teacher and Young Farmer teacher Mrs.
Cindy Jones.
The Madison County FFA Livestock Judging
Team recently placed 4th in the Area 2 Senior
FFA Livestock Judging Career Development
Event (CDE). Also competing in the junior
event was Madison County High School ninth
grade FFA members. The junior FFA Livestock
Judging team placed 16th. The Livestock Judg-
ing CDE allows agricultural education students
the opportunity to make accurate observations
of livestock, determine the desirable traits in
animals, make logical decisions based on their
observations, and discuss and defend those
decisions. Participants place classes of breed-
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Floriculture, Ag Communications and Ag Sales
Agriculture Mechanics
Livestock Judging Area CDE
over 100 different plants
and take a written exam
covering the horticulture
industry. The Madison
County High School FFA
Agriculture Communica-
tions CDE Team recently
placed 6th out of more than
15 teams, in the Area II
FFA Agriculture Sales Career Develop-
ment Event (CDE). The event was held at
Oconee County High School in Watkins-
ville, GA on November 15th, 2011. Team
members included Bri Kittle, Jordan Lunds-
ford, Brittany Moore and Justin Stanley.
High individual on the team was MCHS
junior, Jordan Lundsford. Each team mem-
ber had to compete in two areas of the
contest, the sales test of 25 multiple choice
questions, which tested the students’
knowledge on sales strategies and rules.
The MCHS Ag Communication team placed
9th at the area contest. Team members
included: Chyenne Gordon, Kate Russum
and Jessica Baxter. These ladies had to
read and correct newspaper articles.
Competiting on the area
level in Floriculture were
senior team members
Jaime Feagan, Samantha
Cofer, Jenny Ortman and
team high individual Am-
ber WIlbanks. The team
placed 8th out of 30
teams. The Junior team
placed 3rd out of more than 40 teams
and the team members included: Aaron
Hall, Luke Frank, Sarah Spradlin and Bri-
anna Morgan. These team had to identify
Sr Livestock Judging Team Places 4th in Area CDE
Plants are my favorite! I
can’t do animals BUT plants
I enjoy and FFA has that for
me!” - Brianna Morgan
The agriculture mechanics team has a good time after welding, wiring, solving problems, taking a test and testing a small engine. This team placed 6th and Kevin Jones was 2nd high individual in the CDE out of almost 80 students!
600 Madison Street
Danielsville, GA 30633
Madison County
High School FFA
competed in agriculture communi-
cation, meats judging, floriculture
and dairy judging but her favorite
of them all has been agriculture
communications. Jessica really
enjoys proofreading the papers
and learning about different types
of advertisement. She has com-
peted in agriculture communica-
Jessica Baxter is a junior at Madi-
son County High School and was
chosen for our chapter’s Decem-
ber student spotlight because of
her activity within our FFA chapter.
She enjoys taking agriculture clas-
ses because she enjoys doing
things hands on in the classroom
and learning by doing. She takes
what she learns in the classroom
and is able to apply it in her super-
vised agricultural experience. Jes-
sica’s SAE is poultry production
where she has to feed and water
the chickens and make sure they
stay healthy and she picks up
eggs two times a week.
She has also been able to
take what she learns in the class-
room and use it in various career
development events. She has
tions for three years and has
made it to the state competition
two out of the three years. Jessica
is hoping to make it to nationals
next year her senior year. Jessica
also attends all local meetings,
participates in local fundraisers,
assists with local plant sales and
has earned her Greenhand and
Chapter FFA degree.
Through the FFA and agri-
culture classes Jessica has also
been able to attend State Conven-
tions, Leadership Conferences
and this past summer the Natural
Resource and Conservations
Camp at ABAC. Jessica will also be
interviewing for the Governor’s
Honors Program in the area of
Agriculture.
Student Spotlight - Jessica Baxter
Phone: 706795-2110
Josh White - [email protected]
Trisha Lastly
Kay Farmer
Cindy Jones
Please Contact ANY of the Agriculture Teachers
with questions!
Jessica Baxter, above, checks plants for needs during the Horticulture class at MCHS.
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