This week is National FFA Week, a time to share what the organization is and what impact it has on its members every day.
Seehafer News spoke with Katherine Novak and Monica Banke about Reedsville High School’s National FFA chapter.
Banke says there have been some activities and dress-up days for the week, with today (February 22nd) being Camo and Blaze Orange Day.
Banke’s job is to get more people involved in the organization, which is now more than just farming and agriculture, but it’s still at its roots.
She tells us she loves FFA because it is a “good way to get out of your comfort zone. You learn a lot of new things and really cool things and you get better at being able to talk to people and have better communication.”
She says she’s also learned more about career development, which has become a focus in the organization, according to Novak, since Future Farmers of America, the original name for the group, became the National FFA Organization.
Novak says this week “helps provide a time that is specifically set aside to show students that don’t partake in FFA and don’t enroll in agriculture classes to learn what agriculture is all about and why we have FFA.”
The week would finish on Friday at RHS, but school is closed on Friday, which would have been their blue and gold day.
More information about the organization can be found on the National FFA website.
