Charles City FFA students participate in district competition

By James Grob, jgrob@charlescitypress.com

A bus full of 42 Charles City FFA students landed in Nevada, Iowa, on Saturday as the Comet students participated in the district FFA convention.

Charles City’s Gillian Anderson and Drew Staudt were elected to the 2020-21 North Central District FFA Officer Team, Anderson as vice-president and Staudt as sentinel, while the Comets also had several students advance to state.

Lydia Staudt, Ashlyn Hoeft, Brayton Quade, Bronson Forsyth, and Sofie Nettleton advanced to state in Parliamentary Procedure; Gillian Anderson, Justin Heyer, Sarah Mitchell, Ryan Nettleton, Kiki Connell, Daniel Laube, and Sydney Ross advanced in Ag Issues; Marissa Daniels, Jackie Wink, Lynn Hoeft, Anna Krumweide and Ally Faulkner advanced in Experience the Action; and Drew Staudt advanced in Ag Sales.

The 92nd Iowa FFA Leadership Conference will take place in Ames on April 19-21.

State convention alternates included Max Deeter in Public Speaking, Laurie Hart in Extemporaneous Speaking, Cael Ruzicka in Ag Broadcasting, Cassie Debower in Chapter Website, and Taylor Quade, Olivia Krueger, Aubrey Hoeft and Evan Salinas in Ag CSI.

Colton Crooks earned second place in Welding, and silver awards went to Lauren Connell in Job Interview, Brady Frascht in Welding, and Isabelle Vance, Anya Ruzicka, Tayleigh Lantz and Payton Hadley in Ag Impact.

In other local FFA news, Charles City will once again host FFA Leadership Day on March 27 at the Youth Enrichment Center at the Floyd County Fairgrounds.

National FFA Secretary Kourtney Lehman, along with members of the state and district officer teams, will be presenting leadership workshops along with opening and closing sessions.

This will be the second time in three years an FFA national officer has came to Charles City. About a dozen FFA chapters attend the event, where district and state FFA officers attend and put on workshops for local FFA students.