Future Farms of America Week

FFA Week is a nationally celebrated week during February. There are many goals for this week which include leadership development for our members, service-based activities for our community, and agriculture awareness and support for local farmers. Each year our FFA officer team plans events and activities throughout the week, some involve our FFA members, others involve students, staff, community members, local farmers and our FFA Alumni Association. Below is are the activities that the FFA members planned and executed for this year's FFA Week. 

Other events throughout the week included:

Sunday: 
FFA Goes to Church (FFA members gathered at Bethany Baptist Church and attended the youth service.) 

Monday: 
AG Fact Central (FFA members took their day off of school to write ag facts in chalk down the breeze-way so that students and staff can learn about North Carolina agriculture and how it plays a role in their everyday life.) 

Tuesday: 
Fill the Feed Trough (all week we collected canned food and non-perishable food to donate to the East Stokes Outreach.) 
Theme of the day: White Collar vs. Blue Collar

Wednesday: 
Cornhole during lunch and our Poultry Judging Team went to Raleigh for the State Poultry Judging Competition 
Theme of the day: Carhart Day 

Thursday: 
2nd grade drawing contest (we challenged the 2nd grade classes to a drawing contest of a picture that symbolizes NC agriculture. FFA members will judge each schools' drawings and a winner from each school will be announced when they attend Farm Animal Days in May. Prizes will be given to winning students.) 
Theme of the day: Rodeo Dya 

Friday: 
Drive Your Tractor to School Day (we had the largest turnout that we have ever had. This was a tradition that I started when I was a student at South over 10 years ago. The goal is to raise awareness of tractor safety on public roadways.) FFA Breakfast, our FFA Alumni Association supplied and cooked breakfast for our FFA members. 
Theme of the day: FFA DAY! 


Updated 3/1/24