Indicator 5

Opportunities for students to demonstrate readiness.

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TENNESSEE FFA ASSOCIATION

FFA is structured on three levels: local, state and national. Tennessee FFA is led by a Board of Directors and the State Officers lead the membership. Local FFA chapters are chartered through the state associations.

The Tennessee FFA Association consists of more than 14,000 FFA members from over 220 chapters. FFA is a diverse organization, operating in rural, urban and suburban schools. Students ages 12-21 enrolled in agriscience education programs are eligible for membership (reference the FFA constitution for full membership details).

MISSION

FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

CTSO Participation:

This was our Bradford FFA Chapter photo for our yearbook for the 2019-2020 school year. We had 118 FFA members this past year, making us the largest student organization in Bradford High School.

CTSO Roster:

This is our roster for the 2020-2021 school year at Bradford High School. We have 136 individuals, which include 4 members who have already graduated.

FFA Community Service Projects:

Students are seen here cleaning a local cemetery in Bradford this past October for our National FFA Days of Service. They were raking leaves and picking up sticks to clean up the area, as well as cleaning debris off of tombstones. A local individual asked if our chapter would help them in this task.

Here are students meeting with local police in 2019 to discuss opportunities to paint businesses in our town, which was a grant we were awarded by the National FFA Organization.

Student members are seen here performing a FFA Service Grant Project in August of 2019 by painting a building that needed repainting in our town. We used our grant of $1,200 to purchase material and paint to perform the tasks.

FFA members helped build an offering box to help provide a resource for food hunger prevention in Bradford. Students build the box, and helped install it.

Several FFA members helped with serving food and drinks at a local awards banquet for Gibson County.

Students signed up to help work a concession stand during our Doodle Soup Festival in Bradford. They made food, as well as served it following safety guidelines.

FFA members from Bradford took the time after school to use landscaping equipment to clean a creek bank next to the school which, as you can witness, has not been taken care of in a while. Students were able to clean out the brush and saplings, and have a landscaping business take the debris.

Here is a sign that was made in thanks to our Bradford FFA Chapter from a local farm business. We helped get their facilities ready by cleaning up and moving cattle panels for their annual Angus cattle sale.

FFA Trips and Activities:

This is a picture of our FFA Officers participating in the Flowers on the Hill program where we met with TN legislators. This is us meeting with State Representative, Mr. Kelly Keisling.

Here is a picture of our Freshmen in our program who planned and performed a trip to Skyzone in Jackson, TN. We had 30 students participate in this event.

In August of 2019, we participated in the "Back to School Bash" in Trenton, TN. We set up a booth and cooked food for participants, as well as collected back to school items to donate to school's across Gibson County, TN.

On February 24th through the 28th in 2020, FFA members celebrated our National FFA Week by participating in dress up days, driving tractors to school, and participating in local leadership development events performed by our own FFA Chapter Officers.

This year, on March 20th, 2020, our FFA program celebrated it's 90th year of establishment. To celebrate, we designed a sign that would be established in front of our Agricultural building to be displayed forever. We created a pamphlet explaining our goals, as well as reached out in our community to obtain sponsors, which we placed on the back of our sign. Students helped raise over $1,400 to pay for the sign you see above. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19, we were unable to celebrate the installment of the sign in person.

This past October, our FFA Sophomore class planned our first ever fishing tournament. FFA members had to obtain judges, and plan the activity while working with Gibson County Lake's concessionaire for the event. Even though the weather was not the best, we had several individuals turn up for our very first Bass Fishing Tournament.

Each year, our FFA members create a FFA Winter Formal for our Bradford Chapter. We open the activity up to other students in our school, as long as they are invited as a guest by a FFA member. Students create committees, such as a decoration committee, music playlist committee, promotion committee, and catering committee. We had 60 students participate in this event in February 2020.

FFA Meetings:

Our FFA Executive Officers have their meetings to pass important information and to create agendas to present to our FFA members for monthly meetings.

This is a calendar board that we have at the back of our room that we keep our schedule posted so all of our members know what upcoming events and meetings are happening.

Here are examples of monthly meetings with our FFA members. We open our meetings with FFA ceremonies, have a reading of our last meeting's minutes and a treasurer's report, officer and special committee reports, unfinished business, and any new business. We practice Parliamentary Procedure at all of our meetings. We also take attendance and pass out agendas before each meeting. Meetings have an activity after or before each meeting. We average around 50-60 students each meeting.

FFA CDE and LDE Competitions:

FFA members participated in the Livestock Judging competition at UT Martin. Students had to evaluate livestock and give oral reasons for their placings.

This team of Bradford FFA members competed in Dairy Judging in Henry Co., TN. They placed 6th in West TN.

Pictured here is a student on the left who competed in the FFA Creed competition, as well as a student on the right who competed in the Employment Skills competition.

This team of Freshmen FFA members placed 5th in West TN for the Conduct of a Chapter Meeting Leadership Development Event.

In 2019, our Bradford FFA Quiz Bowl Team obtained 2nd in West TN, 8th out of 53 in the State, and 18th out of 63 in the Nation. The Quiz Bowl is a knowledge based competition which covers all the information associated with the FFA Official Manual.

Bradford FFA Chapter Awards:

Here is a picture of us announcing our newly elected FFA Officers of the Bradford FFA Chapter for the 2019-2020 school year.

This was us after winning the TN Trophy for Most Improved Chapter, which was awarded to us at the West TN Awards Banquet.

This year, we placed 10th in all of West TN in the Leadership Division due to the participation of leadership events, placing in competitions, and being active in the West TN FFA program.

Here were some of the awards our Chapter was recognized for at the State FFA Convention.

This is a picture of six students who obtained their FFA State Degrees, the highest personal award you can obtain on the state level.

This is a picture after one of our FFA Chapter Banquets, with award recipients that night.

This past year, we had our Chapter President, Lexie Knott, who obtained a Regional Officer position as the Sentinel. She was in charge of all the FFA members on the western side of the Tennessee River.

Student Industry Certifications:

Here are the two students who obtained their TSIC Certification, which counts as three hours college credit. These two were out of a class of ten who were eligible to sit for the test, and this was our very first year to administer the test. In 2020, we were unable to take the test due to COVID.

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