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2024-2025 Chapter Banquet Awards Ceremony

On April 17th, we hosted our annual chapter awards ceremony in the high school auditorium!

We highlighted different events we have attended and hosted over the year, as well as we also highlighted all of our members' hard work through the year by handing out awards.

For the full agenda, we have a Digital Program available.

• County and State Fair Report

• FFA Land Lab

  • Brandon Frush, Grant Severtsgaard, and Jakob Gasco

• Horticulture Lab

  • School garden, greenhouse

• Fall CDE competitions

• National Convention

• Top 10 Fruit sellers

  • Grace Ruzicka

  • Benjamin Rosauer

  • Jillian Hanson

  • Brandon Frush

  • Wesley Gaston

  • Bailey Brown

  • Andrew Bronner

  • Keelan Even

  • Sadie Clark

  • Weston Clark

• Hickory Hills Holiday Light Show

  • Alivia Keegan, Lily Schmitz, Ben Rosauer, Brandon Frush, Lauren Frush, and RaeLynn Wildeboer

• National FFA Week

• Sub Districts

  • Ag Broadcasting, Gold - Advance to Districts: Lily Schmitz 

  • Ag Sales, Bronze: RaeLynn Wildeboer 

  • Conduct of Meetings, Bronze: Carson Nechanicky, Jeremias Yuska, Maddie Schmitz, Olivia Schildroth, Peyton Brown, Paige Pipho, and Skylar Perason 

  • Extemporaneous Speaking, Gold - Advance to Districts: Benjamin Rosauer

  • Job Interview Silver: Melanie Yuska 

  • Public Speaking, Gold - Advance to Districts: Jillian Hanson 

  • Greenhand Quiz, Bronze: Keelan Even and Wesley Buckingham

  • Chapter Quiz, Gold: Brandon Frush

• Pancake Breakfasts

• Districts

  • Extemporaneous Speaking, Gold: Ben Rosauer

  • Ag Broadcasting, Gold - Advance to State: Lily Schmitz

  • Prepared Public Speaking, Gold - Advance to State: Jill Hanson

  • Chapter Quiz, Gold - First place: Brandon Frush

  • Greenhand Quiz, Bronze: Jeremiah Lowe, Keelan Even, RaeLynn Wildeboer, Wesley Buckingham, Jeremias Yuska

  • District delegates, Bailey Brown and Brandon Frush. 

  • Ben Rosauer was elected as the NE District FFA Reporter

• State Leadership Conference

  • Prepared Public Speaking, Gold: Jillian Hanson

  • Ag Broadcasting, Silver: Lily Schmitz

  • Chapter Display, Gold: Bailey Brown, Alivia Keegan, and Lily Schmitz

  • Poultry Judging CDE, Silver: Tia Butler, Wesley Buckingham, Keelan Even

  • Team Ag Sales CDE, Silver: Lauren Frush, RaeLynn Wildeboer, Jeremias Yuska, Carson Nechanicky

  • Chapter Quiz, Gold: Brandon Frush

  • Greenhand Quiz, Bronze: RaeLynn Wildeboer and Carson Nechanicky 

  • Courtesy Corps: Ben Rosauer and Bailey Brown

  • Chapter Delegates: Ben Rosauer and Bailey Brown

  • State FFA Officer Nominating Committee Chairperson: Jillian Hanson 

  • Massing of the Flags: Jeremias Yuska 

  • Chaperones: Heather Wildeboer & Shelby McDonald

• Iowa Youth Institute

  • Brandon Frush, RaeLynn Wildeboer, Tia Butler

• Academic Achievement

  • Tyler Gates

• Merit System

  • Jill Hanson, RaeLynn Wildeboer, Jeremias Yuska, Grace Ruzicka, Tia Butler, Bailey Brown, Johannah Meier, Keelan Even

• Star Discovery, Olivia Schildroth

• Star Greenhand, RaeLynn Wildeboer and Jeremias Yuska

• Star Chapter, Grace Ruzicka

• Star Junior, Brandon Frush and Ben Rosauer

• Star Senior, Tony Harrenstein

• Senior Leadership

• Blue and Gold Sponsor Award, Nutrien Ag Solutions

• Discovery Degree Ceremony

  • Paige Pipho, Finley Keegan, Olivia Schildroth, Petyon Brown, Avery Weber, Alyza Harting, Taryn Zeien, Ethan Gardner, Keegan Knoop, Fletcher Keegan, Garrett Hemsath, Mia Michael, Brooklyn Garcia, Maddie Schmitz, Taryn Petersen, Jace Bormann

• Honorary Degree Ceremony, Louis Beck

• Sponsor Recognition

• National Chapter

• Parent Recognition

• Administration Thank You

• Advisor Thank You

• 2025-2026 Officer Team

  • President, Brandon Frush

  • Vice President, Jill Hanson

  • Secretary, Alivia Keegan

  • Treasurer, Bailey Brown

  • Co-Reporters, Lily Schmitz and Lauren Frush

  • Sentinel, Ben Rosauer

  • Student Advisor, RaeLynn Wildeboer

Thank you all for your continuous support this year!

National FFA Week 2025

This past week we have been very busy celebrating National FFA Week!

Throughout the week we enjoyed breakfast in the ag room every day for chapter bonding. 

On Wednesday, February 19th, those competing in LDE contests headed to Hawkeye for Sub-Districts. The results are below as follows. We are so proud of all our members who competed and we are wishing the best of luck to those competing at Districts and State! 

• Extemporaneous Speaking, Ben Rosauer: 1st Gold, Advance to Districts

• Ag Broadcasting, Lily Schmitz: 1st Gold, Advance to Districts

• Public Speaking, Jillian Hanson: 1st Gold, Advance to Districts

• Job Interview, Melanie Yuska: Silver

• Ag Sales, RaeLynn Wildeboer: Bronze

• Chapter Conduct of Meetings, Carson Nechanicky, Jeremias Yuska, Maddie Schmitz, Olivia Schildroth, Peyton Brown, Paige Pipho, and Skylar Pearson: Bronze

• Chapter Quiz, Brandon Frush: 4th Gold

• Greenhand Quiz, Carson Nechanicky: Gold, Jeremias Yuska: Silver, Skylar Pearson: Silver, Wesley Buckingham: Bronze, Keelan Even: Bronze

Back to School BBQ!

On Sunday, August 27, 2023,  we hosted our first chapter meeting! The meeting was attended by all officers and over 20 members. We covered many different exciting things that happened this summer and what we have planned moving forward. The meeting covered introducing our 2023-24 officer team, FFA dues, official dress & jackets, chapter apparel, national convention, fruit sales, joining remind for updates, pancake breakfasts, event sign-ups, and upcoming events. To get more in-depth detail, click here to see our agenda summary! 

After all the business was finished, we enjoyed some delicious pulled pork sandwiches and mac and cheese! Once everyone was done eating, we played ganes to appreciate the beautiful weather. It was fun and full of laughter with a beautiful sunset at the very end!

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it! We hope you enjoyed it! To those who couldn't make it this time, we missed you and hope you will be able to make it to our next chapter meeting!