FVTC FFA CDE

Fox Valley Technical College FFA Career Development Event Information

The Fox Valley Technical College FFA Career Development Event will offer sixteen CDE opportunities for your judging team. Each school can have one team of four students per contest.  A student can compete in only one contest.  

FFA Chapter Advisors registering CDE participants who are eligible for special needs accommodations must contact FVTC Agriculture Staff to request the accommodations at the time of registration.  

Virtual Exam Information
The following contests will have a Virtual Screener Exam on March 6: Dairy Cattle and Livestock. Due to the capacity of the facilities. These contests are capped to the schools that score the highest on the virtual screener written exam. 

The following contest will have a Virtual Preliminary Exam on March 6: Horse Evaluation. To accommodate travel time and the duration of the in-person contest, the written exam will be completed in advance on Blackboard.This contest has no cap. One team per school.

The teams in each contest will earn a place to compete in person on March 28th based on the highest cumulative team scores.  The scores of the virtual written exam will be added to the final ranking calculations after the in-person contest.  Teams will consist of 3 or 4 students.  The top 3 individual scores will be included in team totals. 

The Virtual Screener will be done in the Blackboard learning management platform.  FVTC will generate school logins once registration closes on February 28th.  The Virtual Screener will function best using the Chrome browser- this is highly recommended.   The Virtual Screener window will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on March 6.  All the students of the same team at the same school must complete the exam at the same time but independently. (Example: All the students on the dairy team from Foxtown High School would take their exam during 3rd hour in the same computer lab but sit on every other computer and take the exam individually on their own.) Most Virtual Screener exams are 50 multiple-choice questions with a 1-hour limit.

In-Person Contest

The in-person event will be held on a Friday, March 28, 2025, at Fox Valley Technical College, 1825 North Bluemound Drive, Appleton, WI. The contest check-in will be from 8:00 to 8:45 a.m. at the contest location or inside door #10.  Please contact the FVTC Agriculture Department with questions:  920-735-5672 or kaitlin.spierings0355@fvtc.edu.

Campus Food

Vending machines are available (CASH AND CARD ACCEPTED)

The cafeteria has grab-and-go options available until 2 p.m. (ONLY CARD ACCEPTED)

ALL CONTESTS BEGIN AT 9:00 AM

Contest Locations

Advisor Volunteer Preference Form

State CDE Qualifying Contests

Agriculture Technologies & Mechanics, Agronomy, Dairy Cattle, Floriculture, Forestry, Horse, Livestock, Milk Products, Poultry, Vet Science, and Wildlife.