FFA Meeting for Oct. 27th Cancelled

The FFA Meeting for Oct. 27th has been Cancelled due to the girls volleyball tournament game. Go Warhawks!!!

National Convention Application

Please Complete the Application by September 16th, 2009.

You will need to complete the survey at http://www.quia.com/sv/337764.html

You will also need to read, print and sign the following sheet and return to Mr. Straube no later than September 16th. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AalZROAljecRZGNoMzhzODZfMTNmcWJrdDc2NQ&hl=en

FFA Meeting Agenda Aug. 31st, 2009

West Fork FFA Chapter Meeting

1. Opening Ceremonies
2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting
3. Officer Reports - Treasurer and Reporter
4. Report on Chapter Program of Activities
5. Special Features - None
6. Unfinished Business - Banquet Plaques
7. Committee Reports - None
8. New Business - National Convention (Sign-up and Cost), FFA Jacket Order, Sweatshirt Order, FFA T-Shirts, Community Service Projects, Fruit Sales, State Degree Applications, FFA CDE (Sign-up and Practices), Membership Affiliation Fee
9. Closing Ceremony
10. Food

Welcome Back FFA Members

FFA Members welcome back to the 2009-2010 school year. Lets continue the success of our FFA Chapter!!

Washington Leadership Conference

For students that are going to WLC - Holly Hejlik, Holly Hallman, Maci Robeoltman, Becky Schnabel and Lindsey Petersen.

Please Read the following document
http://www.ffa.org/documents/wlc_wlcconference_studentinformation.pdf
Please Read, Fill out and return to Mr. Straube
http://www.ffa.org/documents/wlc_wlcconference_medicalinformation.pdf
http://www.ffa.org/documents/wlc_wlcconference_waiver.pdf
http://www.ffa.org/documents/wlc_wlcconference_personalconduct.pdf

North Iowa Fair Help List

Students planning on being in Ag Class next fall are expected to help with county fairs. Students are required to participate in two FFA activities each quarter. Helping with county fairs would be a good way to get those done before school starts. FFA meetings will not count for FFA activities.

The sign-up sheet is avaible at the following link -
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r0PGaavdeWzOfZozMSakEhg&output=html

Please email Mr. Straube @ derek.straube@westforkschool.org with the date and time you want to help. I will up date the list as people sign-up.

Summer Career Development Events

FFA members remember there are great opportunities for applying your skills in some summer CDE's. Please see Mr. Straube about them.

June 4th - Agricultural Mechanics, Food Science and Agronomy (Crop Science) at Ames (ISU)
June 9th - Horse Judging at Cedar Rapids (Kirkwood Equine Center)
June 11th -Horticulture and Nursery Landscaping at Ankeny (DMACC)

2009 State FFA Leadership Conference Results

Brittany Jurgemeyer - Gold - 3rd place - Job Interview
Lindsey Petersen, Dani McLaughlin, and Emily Fjone - Gold - Chapter Exhibit
Jacob Lage - Gold - Greenhand Quiz
Holly Hejlik - Silver - Public Speaking
Michelle Stille - Silver - Freshmen Creed Speaking
Cody Staudt - Bronze - Greenhand Quiz
Amy Stevens, Taryn Riediger, Brooke Fish and Drew Meinders - Bronze - Farm Business Management
Maci Robeoltman, Holly Hallman, and Becky Schnabel - Bronze - Ag Marketing
Sean Staudt, Brock Schultz, Jack Rabey, and Brandon Espinosa - Bronze - Team Ag Sales

Brittany Jurgemeyer was elected to State Vice-President.

State Convention

State Convention Reminders!

1. We will leave at 5:00pm on Wednesday, April 15th
2. You need to have a Field Trip Permission form filled out for both days
3. You will need to have $35 payable to West Fork FFA before we go.
4. You also need to have the behavior contract signed by you and your parents.

Washington Leadership Conference Application

The application for the Washington Leadership Conference is available at http://www.quia.com/sv/277929.html. We are planning on attend from July 6-12. Please fill out this application if you are interested in attending so we can get more details worked out. You must be a sophomore or junior to apply. Please fill out the application by March 23, 2009. Thanks.

Chapter Officer Application

Chapter Officer Application is available at the following link - http://www.quia.com/sv/277944.html. The application will need to be filled out and submitted by March 23, 2009. I encourage any active FFA member to take on the role of a chapter officer.

District Results

Congratulations to Holly on advancing in Public Speaking, Brittany advancing in Job Interview and Michelle advancing in Creed. Congratulations to everyone else for their hard work and good showing at Districts. Thank you.

FFA Sub-district Results

Thank you to all the members who helped with FFA Sub-districts on March 2nd at the high school. For those participating great job!! We advanced six events to Districts on March 14 at NIACC. Those advancing are as follows; Brittany J. in Job Interview, Holly H. in Public Speaking, Kaylee R. in Extemp. Speaking, Michelle S. in Creed Speaking, Sean S. in Ag Sales and Becky S. in Ag Broadcasting. Way to go!! The Conduct of Meetings team of Taylor T., Emily D., Amy S., Jacob L., Brooke F., Shannon O., and Taryn R. got a silver rating. The Program of Activities Team consisting of Holly H., Margo S., and Lindsey P. got bronze rating. We did a tremendous job in all Career Development Events and you should all be very proud.

Freshmen FFA Jacket Order

If you are ordering an FFA Jacket you need to bring $45 by Wednesday of this week. We need this so we can get the order in.

State Degree Results and District Officer Interview Results

Congratulations to Sam D., Ryan L., Chris N., and Kylea T. on being approved to recieve their state degrees after district review last night. They will recieve their award at the State FFA Leadership Conference in Des Moines in April. Way to Go!!!

Holly H. was slated for District officer and the office will be voted on in March at District Convention. Good Luck!!

District Review Night

District Review Night tonight in Forest City. Good Luck Holly for your district officer canditate. Good luck Chris, Kylea, Sam and Ryan on your State Degree Application.

Iowa Degree Candidates

Mr. Straube will be at school on Saturday from 9:00 am until whenever for any juniors that are interested in filling out their state degree applications. Email, call or text Straube if you are planning on attending.

1/22/09 FFA Meeting Minutes

Brittany called the meeting to order at 6:54pm

Following items were motioned, discussed and voted on.

1. Officer Applications will be available shortly and officer elections will be held at the March Meeting
2. Sophomores and Juniors interested in WLC will have to fill out an application. They will then be selected to a special committtee to look into fundraising
3. National FFA Week is Feb. 21-26. Following are the days for National FFA Week - Mon. is Redneck Day - Tues. is Blue -n- Gold Day - Wed. is Cowboy Day - Thurs. is Official Dress Day and Fri. is "Represent" your tractor day.
4. National FFA Week Activities - Eighth grade recruitment, Elementary coloring contest, possibly Ag Olympics (approval from Mr. Bushbaum)
5. Presentation to the school board
6. T-shirt design #2 option was selected
7. FFA Scholarship rules established for chapter scholarship - Submit an application, been an active member for all four years, sold FFA fruit all four years and the amount will be decided each year. This year's amount will be $200.

FFA Meeting Tentative Agenda 1/22/09

West Fork FFA Chapter Meeting

1. Opening Ceremonies


2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting


3. Officer Reports - Treasurer (Sean) and Reporter (Holly & Margo)


4. Report on Chapter Program of Activities (Emily P)


5. Special Features (None)


6. Unfinished Business (None)


7. Committee Reports (None)


8. New Business - FSQA Training in Hampton, Officer Applications, Washington Leadership Conference, CDE practices, State Degree Applications, National FFA Week, Sub-district help, Presentation to School Board, T-shirts, FFA Jacket Order, Seniors FFA Scholarships, Community Service Project, State Leadership Conference


9. Closing Ceremony


10. Food

FFA Meeting Thursday

Attn: FFA meeting Thursday at 7:00pm in the ag room. It is a open date now. Sorry for the late notice, but it just became an open date.

State Degree Applications

Attn: Ryan, Ellie, Kylea, Sam, Trevis, Margo and Landon
We need to start fine tuning your SAE records and start filling out the state degree application. We will probably have to sacrifice some Saturdays coming up.

FFA Sub-districts

FFA Members that are doing Career Development Events at Sub-districts. We need to start practicing after school or sport practices.