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)