Lincoln FFA Members Attend Conference

HOT SPRINGS — Students from FFA chapters across Arkansas attended the 360° and Greenhand Leadership Conferences, held last month.

The conference is an activity of the National FFA Organization made possible by title sponsor Syngenta and with additional support from Helena Chemical Company as a special project of the National FFA Foundation. It is a State Leadership Conference for first year FFA Members and is presented by the Arkansas FFA State Officers.

Shayla Fox, Katelynn Kyle, Addisyn Jones, Ryan Flickinger, Chance Wilhite, Josh Jetton, and Laney Roberts, members of the Lincoln FFA Chapter, attended the event Dec. 4-5.

The conference takes students full circle in terms of chapter leadership. It focused on the importance of vision and how to become a visionary leader. Students spent their time in sessions understanding the importance of vision, conducting a chapter needs assessment, crafting a vision plan for their local FFA chapter and developing a strategy to implement their vision.

“Going Green” Greenhand Conference consists of six sessions that focus on the opportunities that the FFA has to offer students during their high school careers. During this two day conference students define what agricultural education is, learn about FFA opportunities, explore what a supervised agricultural experience is for them, they find their fit within agriculture education as well as FFA and they develop “My Green Plan” for their 10th-12th grade years in school.

This school year, more than 850 students from across the state will participate in these two conferences. To learn more about Arkansas FFA please visit our website at www.arkansasffa.org.