Sierras Group 4-19 Flashcards
What is the FFA motto?
Learning to do. Doing to learn. Earning to live. Living to serve.
What is an SAE? What does and SAE stand for?
An SAE is a year round project that allows you to put your agricultural skills and knowledge to use.
Supervised Agricultural Experience
POA is divided into three divisions. What are those?
Student development, Chapter development, Community development
When was the Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act founded? What did it do?
1917, allowed vocational agriculture courses in schools
What did the NFA stand for? What was it?
New Farmers of America, established as a club for African-American students who wanted to participate in FFA. The founding is very similar to the founding of FFA.
Who was the first national FFA president? Where was he from?
Leslie Applegate, New Jersey
What two National FFA presidents resigned? What years? Where are they from?
Harold Gum, West Virginia, 1943. Oliver Hunter, Texas, 1953
Who is the current National FFA President? Where is he from?
Andy Paul, Georgia
The first issue of ____________ magazine was published in 1952.
The National Future Farmer
In 1953 the U.S Post Office Department issued what to celebrate the 25th anniversary of FFA?
special stamps
In the year 1997 what award was presented?
First Agri-Entrepreneurship award
In 1989 The National Future Farmers magazine changed its name to what?
FFA New Horizons
What is FFA misson?
To promote premier leadership, personal growth, and career success.
What is FFA?
Dynamic youth organization within agricultural education .
What do the letters FFA stand for?
Future Farmers of America, but the organization shall be known as the National FFA Organization.
What are the three levels of FFA?
Local, State, National
What are the different types of SAE projects?
Entrepreneurship, Placement, Agriscience Research and Experimentation, Exploratory.
Roughly how many active FFA members are there?
610,000 members
What does the National Council for Agricultural Education do?
It is the coordinating leadership organization for shaping and strengthening school based agricultural education at all levels in the United States.
State the 3 levels of Agricultural Education Components.
Classroom and Laboratory instruction, FFA, SAE
What is a Entrepreneurship SAE?
To own and operate an agricultural related business or enterprise.
What is a placement SAE?
When a student works for someone else, they gain experience and they are payed, most cases it is a job on a farm or agriculture business.
What is agriscience research SAE?
Research, invent, or anaylize.
What is an exploratory SAE?
Explore agriculture.
What is a school based SAE?
entrepreneurial operation in a school setting that provides goods and services that meet the needs of an identified market.
What is a service learning SAE?
A student managed service activity where students are involved in the development of a project that is not part of an ongoing charter project or an ongoing community fundraiser.
