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Photo cutline: The North Callaway FFA Floriculture team receives second in Missouri FFA Floriculture Career Development Event during the 81st Missouri FFA Convention in Columbia Mo., April 16-17. Pictured are team members from left: Advisor Katie Milhollin, Makenzie Cambron, Emily Wells, Cody Jones and Kaitlyn Lee. Photo 4046 Floriculture-2nd-North Callaway-1614
Photo available at: http://agebb.missouri.edu/news/moffaconv/CDE/pics/IMG_1614.JPG
North Callaway Floriculture Team Placed Second At State
COLUMBIA, Mo., April 17, 2009 – The North Callaway FFA Chapter placed second in the Floriculture Career Development Event at the 81st Missouri FFA Convention. There were 50 teams in the competition.
The second place team members were Makenzie Cambron, Cody Jones, Kaitlyn Lee and Emily Wells. Cambron ranked fifth, Lee ranked sixth, Jones ranked tenth and Wells ranked seventeenth out of 194 individuals. North Callaway’s advisors are Clint Smith and Katie Milhollin.
Students were asked to identify plants and were faced with decisions involving day-to-day problems that occur in the floral industry. Plant care and diagnosis, floral arranging and sales and product knowledge were tested in the event.
Sponsored by University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, this contest is one way the FFA prepares student members for career success. Career development events engage student learning and make a real connection to lifetime goals.
The Missouri FFA has 24,410 members representing 317 chapters. The national organization has more than 507,000 members representing 7,439 local chapters in 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
The FFA Mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
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