Lockhart FFA honored by LISD Board for spring accomplishments

Posted on 05/21/2018

The Lockhart ISD Board recognized the Lockhart FFA for their accomplishments this spring. The mission of the Lockhart FFA is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agriculture education.

Their motto is:

Learning to do,

Doing to learn,

Earning to live,

Living to serve.

The students involved in Lockhart FFA truly exemplify its mission and motto, quite visible in our school district, and indeed the community, as cream of the crop leaders & confident and competitive #LISDChampions. The Board recognized this group in three different areas:  Stock Shows, Speaking Development Events, and Career Development Events.

STOCK SHOWS:  For Lockhart FFA, membership, contest entries, and animals on feed continue to rise each year. Just 4 years ago, they did not have a single entry in a stock show. This year, they had the largest turn out of student participation of showing livestock. They had 9 entries at the San Antonio Livestock Show, 22 at the Houston Livestock show and over 50 exhibitors at the county stock show in March.

Speaking Development Events, or SDEs, are designed to develop students abilities to express themselves through public speaking on a given subject and research. Students develop

public speaking skills and learn how to formulate answers for their presentation in response to the topic they wrote a research paper over, and delivered to judges.

Student Name	Event	District	Area
Dakota Holden	Soil Stewardship	1st	3rd
Shelby Kinsey	Senior Prepared- Ag Tech & Communications	1st	6th
Rebecca Law	Senior Prepared- Ag Policy	2nd	-
Allison Till	Senior Prepared- Plant Science	1st	5th

Career Development Events are designed to help a member prepare for a career in agriculture by testing and challenging the student's technical, leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills as well as their knowledge of the subject matter. The variety of these contests answer the question, "When & how will I use this knowledge in the real world?"  CDEs are events that lets members put their knowledge learned in classes into real life situations. This spring they traveled over a combined total 5,120 miles across Texas, and competed against 100’s of teams at various contests. In the fall, Lockhart FFA won sweepstakes for Leadership Development Events and was shy only 2 points of winning District CDE Sweepstakes this Spring!

CDEs	District	Area	First Name	Last Name
Livestock Judging	2nd	13th	Emma	Anton
			Fritz	Anton
			Megan	Rogers
			Hayden	Wilson
Dairy Cattle Judging	1st	15th	Brieana	Berg
			Mary	Lloyd
			Clay	Smith
			Justin	Woodworth
Horse Judging	2nd	22nd	Makenzee	Belyeu
			Victoria	Counce
			Makayla	Dailey
			Mason	Welvaert
Nursery/Landscape	1st	10th	Tye	Beggs
			Bailee	Foote
			Kaylee	Reynolds
Poultry Judging	1st	9th	Lani	Adair
			Chiann	Longmire
			Tannah	Walker
Vet Science	9th	47th	Cortney	Powers
			Breanna	Huggins
			Merrick	McGown
Wool Judging	1st	10th	Sara	Lay
			Brooklyn	Miller
			Clayton	Sughrue
			Bethany	Visage
Meats Judging	1st	7th	Dakota	Holden
			Shelby	Kinsey
			Rebecca	Law
			Mackenzie	McKee
			Allison	Till

Congratulations to all of our FFA #LISDChampions and their sponsors Scott Brown, Brian Pieniazek, and Kelly Voigt.