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FFA Career Development Events

Career Exploration

  • FFA members participate in hands-on work experiences, allowing them to apply knowl-edge learned in class.
  • Collectively, FFA members earn $4 billion annually through their hands-on work experiences.
  • Members participate in and learn advanced career skills in 47 national proficiency areas based on their hands-on work experiences ranging from food science and technology to agricultural communications to wildlife management to production agriculture.
  • According to the student magazine readership study, 87% of our students are interested in learning about career exploration, 81% about college preparation and 81% about technology.
  • Through 23 national career development events and one activity, FFA members are chal-lenged by real-life, hands-on tests of skills that prepare them for career success.

Career Preparation

The agricultural education program provides a well-rounded, practical approach to learning through three components: classroom education in agricultural topics such as plant and animal sciences, horticulture, forestry, etc.; hands-on supervised agricultural experience such as starting a business or working for an established company; and FFA, which provides leadership opportunities and tests students' agricultural skills.

CDE's

  • Agricultural Sales
  • Agri-Science Fair
  • Creed Speaking
  • Dairy Cattle Evaluation
  • Dairy Handlers Events
  • Demonstration
  • Environmental Science & Natural Resources
  • Extemporaneous Public Speaking
  • FFA Quizbowl
  • Floriculture
  • Forestry
  • Horse Evaluation
  • Job Interview
  • Livestock Evaluation
  • Marketing Plan
  • Nursery & Landscape Design
  • Parliamentary Procedure
  • Prepared Public Speaking
  • Small Animal
  • Soil Evaluation
  • Turf Management
  • Veterinary Medicine (coming soon)