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 2026 MidState Technical College Regional CDE on Tuesday, March 24th & Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) Regional CDE on Friday, March 27th, 2026.
All competitors who compete at the Regional Qualifier are also committing to compete at the State Competition on April 17th or 24th if they qualify, as well as the National Competition in October 2026 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 and other fees associated with the competition, ie. transportation, hotels, etc.

Contests Eligible for Competition at FVTC:

- - Agricultural Sales
  - Ag Technology & Mechanical Systems
  - Agronomy
  - Dairy Cattle Management & Evaluation
  - Farm and Agribusiness Management
  - Floriculture
  - Horse Evaluation
  - Livestock Evaluation
  - Milk Quality and Products Evaluation
  - Nursery & Landscaping
  - Poultry Evaluation
  - Veterinary Science
  - Wildlife
  - General Ag Middle School
  - General Ag High School

Link to FVTC CDE Information HERE!!

Contests Eligible for Competition at MidState:

Agronomy
Ag Technology & Mechanical Systems
Dairy Cattle Evaluation
Farm Business/Agribusiness
Floriculture
Forestry
Livestock
Meats Evaluation and Technology
Middle School Agriscience
Milk Quality and Products
Poultry
Veterinary Science
Wildlife

Link to MSTC 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