CDE/LDE Accomplishments 

 2024-2025 CDE/LDE Accomplishments

2024 Pacheco Cotton Judging Contest

Our Cotton Judging Team had a huge success at their first contest of the year at Pacheco High School! Kicking our year off great with our A Team winning 2nd high team in Seeds, 3rd high team in Test, and 4th high team in Bolls. Daisy Goncalves got 1st high individual in Seeds and 5th high individual in Bolls.

A great way to start off the year, congratulations to everyone who attended the contest! 

2024 Cal Poly State Finals

Our Dairy Judging Team made the trek to their first FFA State Finals. They competed in their final contest of the season. Their hard work, dedication and late night studying resulted in their placing 11th team overall and Lauren was 2nd 🥈High Individual. 

Huge shout out to Terianne Silveira for coaching the team and dedicating her Thursday mornings and weekends to getting them dialed in.

2024 Fresno State Dairy Judging Contest

After a few weeks off, our Dairy Evaluation Team was back at it judging at Fresno State. Lauren walked away with 5th High Individual. The team was 8th Overall and 5th in Reasons. 

2024 Modesto Junior College Dairy Judging Contest

Our Dairy Judging Team was at it again today, this time at the Modesto JC Contest. The high quality animals made some difficult classes, but the team put in their best effort and came away with improved skills. Lauren showed off her studying skills by placing 4th in Test.   

2024 Western Dairy Classic Junior Dairy Show

Today we traveled to Tulare for the Western Classic!! Our team sorted through some tough high quality classes and still earned some recognition. Lauren was 3rd in Holsteins, Eduardo was 2nd in Holsteins and Chowchilla was high team in the Holstein Division!

After running through the contest, Lauren switched gears and headed into the show ring to  compete in Intermediate Showmanship. The team stuck around to support her in her heat and she ended up Reserve Champion!! 


2024 UC Davis Contest

This was our teams first official contest and they showed up! We were 4th high team in the Milk Cows Division and Natalia Orozco placed 2nd in the Heifer Division!! Chowchilla came out 7th overall in the contest!

2024 Marketing COOPs

Our Marketing COOPs team went to compete at the Laton competition this evening.

Maryssa Colombe placed 6th high individual and Daisy Goncalves placed 5th high individual!


2024 Private Reserve Dairy Contest

Our Dairy Judging team was up early to compete at the Private Reserve Dairy Contest. 

Our team had a great learning experience and had the privilege of sorting some high quality cows and heifers. 

Chowchilla FFA was 2nd High Team overall and Lauren Silveira was High Individual. 

2023 - 2024 West-Fresno Madera Speaking Contest

Huge shoutout to our students who competed at the West-Fresno Madera speaking contest today! Grant Donegan and Makala Olson competed in Creed Speaking. 

Natalia Orozco, Emree Carr and Lauren Silveira competed in Impromptu Speaking. All three moved on to the finals where Natalia was 12th, Emree was 9th and Lauren Silveira was 1st! 


2023 - 2024 West Fresno-Madera Banking contest

Congratulations to our Banking team on their success tonight at the West Fresno Madera FFA contest. They placed 1st high team and Mykel Mull was named 1st High Individual!

2023 - 2024 West Fresno-Madera Opening & Closing Ceremonies Contest

Congratulations to the Chapter Officer Team and Greenhand Officer teams for placing second overall high teams in their rooms. Additional congratulations should be awarded to Lauren Silveira for receiving an award for Outstanding Secretary. On the Greenhand team: Makala Olson won Outstanding President, Benjamin Gomez won Outstanding Vice President, Faith Goncalves won Outstanding Secretary, and Eduardo Martinez won Outstanding Sentinel.

2023 - 2024 Cotton Judging State Finals

Our cotton judging teams had a great year! Daisy Goncalves placed 5th high individual in lint along with having 5th high team overall! Emree Dabbs placed 4th high individual in seed and 5th high individual in plants.

2023 Western Dairy Showcase Dairy Judging Contest

Awesome job to our Dairy judging team! The team went to a practice contest at the Western Dairy Showcase in Turlock. Lauren Silveira placed 3rd in the Intermediate Division and all our members including Austin, Princess, Rylee and Natalia walked away with a great experience.