FFA Members Shine at District Competition
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On Wednesday, March 2nd the Elgin FFA members competed in their District Career Development Events (CDE’s) at Northeast Community College. Elgin is in District X, along with Ainsworth, Valentine, Rock County, Keya Paha, Atkinson West Holt, O’Neill, Stuart, West Boyd, Chambers, Wheeler Central and Burwell. CDE’s are events that focus on specific areas of study in Agriculture Education such as Agronomy and Livestock Management. Elgin’s FFA chapter had a tremendous showing with many teams qualifying for State FFA in April. Here are the qualifying teams and top 10 individuals from Elgin.
Ag Biotechnology – 2nd Place Team, Elianne Heilhecker , 1st overall individual, Dylan Widger was 5th overall.
Veterinary Science – 3rd Place Team, Zoey Bergman, 5th overall individual.
Floriculture – 2nd Place Team, Grace Henn, 5th overall individual, Heather Bauer, 6th overall individual, and Nicki Payne 7th overall individual.
Agronomy – 2nd Place Team. Seth Schumacher, 6th overall individual, Liam Heithoff, 8th overall individual.
Agriscience- 1st Place Team. Kyle Schumacher , 1st overall individual, Ally Wemhoff, 4th individual, Hunter Reestman, 7th, Kira Widger, 9th individual.
Farm Business Management – 3rd Place Team. Alois Warner, 3rd place overall individual, Dylan Behnk, 9th individual and Seth Schumacher was 10th overall.
Livestock Management – 4th place, Alternates to state. Members are: Trey Baum, Liz Selting, Marie Meis, Hayes Miller, Taralyn Baum and Calli Krebs.
Welding – Team members are Andrew Fangman (MIG), Liam Heithoff (O/A) and Chad Bode(ARC). The team did not qualify for state, but Chad was 1st place individual in ARC welding.
The Natural Resource team of: Kalin Henn, Karissa Dicke, Chase Preister, Geoffrey Carr, and Kenny Bush placed 3rd in the district. However, this is a non state qualifying event. But, in the case that they performed this well, four of these members will be competing at state.