Career Development Events

What are Career Development Events?

The primary goal of Career Development Events is to develop individual responsibilities, foster teamwork, and promote communication while recognizing the value of ethical competition and individual achievement. Career development events reflect instruction that currently takes place in the entire agricultural education program, including classroom instruction, laboratory instruction, and student’s supervised agricultural experiences. CDEs are intended to be an outgrowth of instruction.

Contest information:

Gillett FFA members will be competing at the UW-Platteville Regional Career Development Events on Thursday, March 20th, 2025.
All competitors that compete at the Regional Qualifier are also committing to compete at the State Competition on April 11th or 25th if they qualify as well as the National Competition in October 2025 if they win the state competition.
If a student signs up, is registered to be on a team, does not compete, and does not find a replacement, they will be charged their portion of the competition registration fee.

Contests Eligible for Competition at UW-Platteville:

- - Agricultural Sales
  - Ag Technology & Mechanical Systems
  - Agronomy
  - Dairy Cattle Management & Evaluation
  - Farm and Agribusiness Management
  - Floriculture
  - Horse Evaluation
  - Livestock Evaluation
  - Meat Evaluation and Technology
  - Milk Quality and Products Evaluation
  - Poultry Evaluation
  - Veterinary Science
  - Wildlife

Link to UW-Platteville CDE information HERE!

Contests Eligible for Competition at State in April:

- - Ag Communications
  - Ag Mechanics - Q
  - Ag Sales
  - Environmental Science
  - Food Science
  - Horse Evaluation - Q
  - Middle School
  - Agronomy-Q
  - Dairy Cattle -Q
  - Dairy Handlers
  - Farm Business Management - Q
  - Floriculture - Q
  - Forestry -Q
  - Livestock - Q
  - Meats - Q
  - Milk Products - Q
  - Nursery Landscape
  - Poultry - Q
  - Vet Science - Q
  - Wildlife - Q