Just a friendly reminder, school will be in session Monday, April 14th. There will be no school on Friday, April 18th. Have a wonderful weekend!
Congratulations to Riley Bruce and Lexi Bee for earning the right to compete at the District level in Advanced Public Speaking and Division II Speaking, respectively. Lexi did a great job with her speech and narrowly missed qualifying for State. Riley place 2nd and will be competing at the State FFA Convention later this month.
Day 2 of District FFA contests included successful performances and qualification for State competition by two CDE teams. The Entomology Team of Lexi Bee, Riley Bruce, Will Frye and Dallas Hardt earned District Champion honors with a first place finish. Riley and Dallas were 3rd and 7th High Individuals respectively, earning Group I honors.
The Nursery and Landscape Team of Chloe Bruce, Katie Clark, Mekenzie Evans and Annah McGaha tied for second place in the 20 team contest. Chloe and Annah were 5th and 6th Individuals respectively, earning Group I Individual status. Great job by all CDE competitors the past two days!
Day 1 of District FFA contests concluded with two teams qualifying for State with strong Group I finishes. The Dairy Foods Team of Lexi Cantrell, Haley Duty, KK Higginbotham and Jocee Mayfield placed 3rd out of 29 teams. Haley Duty was 2nd High Individual. The Soils Team of Caleb Henderson, Alex Frye, Donald Potter and Miley Sukovaty also qualified for State with an 8th place finish. Caleb earned Group I Ind. status with an 8th HI placing
The Agronomy team of Brett DeLozier, Nick Dooley, Austin Duty and Paige Fitch narrowly missed qualifying with a 'alternate to State' 27th place finish.
The Farm Business Mgt team of Jasmine Farrow, Madison Harris, Jill Moore and Lena Skipper also narrowly missed qualifying with a 15th place finish. Day 2 of competition tomorrow.
🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
These Fair Play HS Seniors took a big step toward their future by registering for their college classes at OTC yesterday! 📚✨ We’re so proud of them as they get ready for this next chapter! 🎓👏
#CollegeBound #rootED#ProudMoment
Next Tuesday, April 8th is the school board election. The candidates are Tiffany Phillips (incumbent), Tyrell Bee (Incumbent), Marcus Sitton, and Michael Sheffer. Two seats will be decided. Don't forget to vote!
Another successful day of competition today at the Area X FFA Leadership Development Events held at Pleasant Hope. The public speakers had a good day with Riley Bruce and Lexi Bee both winning the Advanced Prepared and Division II categories respectively. Dallas Hardt narrowly missed qualifying for district competition with a fifth place finish in a highly competitive Division II. The FFA Knowledge team of Lexi Cantrell, Haley Duty, Jocee Mayfield and KK Higginbotham also narrowly missed qualifying with a 10th Place finish. Lena Skipper and Paige Fitch had recordbooks place 1st and 3rd respectively . Great job to all!
FFA Career Development Event teams had a successful day judging yesterday at Area 10 FFA CDE at Marshfield. The Dairy Foods team of Lexi Cantrell, Haley Duty, KK Higginbotham and Jocee Mayfield placed 4th out of 24 teams. The Soils team of Alex Frye, Caleb Henderson, Jill Moore, Donald Potter and Miley Sukovaty placed 2nd out of 20 teams competing. The Entomology team of Lexi Bee, Riley Bruce, Nick Dooley, Will Frye and Dallas Hardt placed 2nd out of 23 teams. The Nursery and Landscaping team of Chloe Bruce, Katie Clark, Mekenzie Evans and Annah McGaha placed 1st out of 20 teams competing. We had several individuals place in the top five of their respective events. Great job to all!!
Late notice. FFA trip to compete at Marshfield tomorrow leave at 6:30 instead of 6:45am in the morning. sorry for the late notice.
Had a great FFA Parent Night last evening. Greenhand and Chapter Degrees were awarded and Mekenzie Evans was crowned as this year's Chapter Sweetheart. FFA Officers did a phenomenal job conducting the ceremonies for a packed house.
National FFA Week 2025 is in the books. We concluded the week with Business and Sponsor Appreciation Day and our great officer team delivering goodies to our stakeholders. Big thanks to all members and parents that prepared the treats, they were awesome. Some of our officers are pictured making deliveries below.
Reminder for FFA Business Appreciation Committee members to bring treats to the Ag Ed Building first thing tomorrow.
Congrats to Dallas Hardt for selection as one of the top ten members in the SW District (out of 125 applicants) and earning an interview spot in mid-March for inclusion into the Agri-business Academy. Good Luck Dallas!!
We had a great start to FFA Week with a tremendous looking group attending church at Harvest Assembly followed by an awesome lunch prepared by Steve and Kathy Scott. Today, members showed off some classic iron by driving tractors and trucks to school in addition to serving pancakes to teachers and staff.
National FFA Week continues tomorrow with Tractor/Farm Truck/tractor brand day. In addition, we will be feeding teachers pancakes for Teacher Appreciation. Breakfast committee reports at 7:15am.
FFA Members -ready for National FFA Week take 2? We are planning to attend FFA Church Sunday at Harvest Assembly this Sunday. Be there at 10:20am(official dress). Also, those attending are encouraged to attend lunch at school following, graciously prepared by the Scott's. See you then.
FFA Business Appreciation committee will NOT need to have desserts for tomorrow since school will be closed. We will postpone this event until next Friday (February 28).
FFA Teacher Appreciation Breakfast will be postponed due to school being closed on Tuesday. FFA members scheduled to help with breakfast can sleep in instead.
This message is for FFA members regarding FFA Church Sunday and lunch following. Harvest Assembly has notified me that they have decided to cancel services today due to travel and parking conditions. We are also going to postpone lunch until next Sunday, February 23. Sorry for the short notice. Be safe.
Check out the article in MO FFA Today Digital Magazine which is the official publication of the Missouri FFA Association. The National Champion Milk Quality Team was honored with a feature article in the February Edition. The link for the full article is below. Article is on page 7.
https://issuu.com/montiwest/docs/missouri_ffa_today_-_february_2025
