FFA Members Speak Up Earning High Honors
FFA Members Speak Up Earning High Honors
On Wednesday, December 6th, twenty Osmond FFA members traveled to Lutheran High
Northeast to compete in the District 4 Leadership Development Event Competition. Nebraska
FFA’s Leadership Development Events (LDEs) are designed to help members prepare for
careers in agriculture. Classroom instruction comes to life as students compete and showcase
their skills in public speaking, parliamentary procedure, and agricultural demonstration. FFA
members must compete at district-level LDEs to qualify for competition at the State FFA
Convention in the spring. Each District may qualify three students/teams per event.
This year Osmond FFA Qualified five individuals in three events for the State Competition which
will be held April 3-5, 2024 in Lincoln. Students qualifying for the state competition included Ava
Reikofski as the Champion in Cooperative Speaking, Matthew Alderson as the Runner-up in
Employment Skills, and the Champion Agricultural Demonstration Team of Matthew Alderson,
Cody Gansebom, Baylen Guenther, and Owen Severson. Addi vonRentzell earned a 4th place
purple ribbon in Junior Public Speaking and will serve as our District Alternate for the State
Competition.
Other students competing included James Doyle - purple in Employment Skills; Ashlyn Spangler
- blue in Junior Public Speaking; Hunter Buchanan - blue in Cooperative Speaking; Caleb
Vinson - blue in Creed Speaking; Ava Severson - blue in Senior Public Speaking; Keely
Gubbels - blue in Senior Public Speaking; Deanna Kumm and Alexa Aschoff - both earning red
in Natural Resources Speaking; Korrine Moes, Adyson Poell0t, and Easton Steinkraus all earning
blue ribbons in Agricultural Literacy Speaking; and two Junior High Quiz Bowl Teams consisting
of Korrine Moes, Adyson Poellot, Easton Steinkraus, Nickolas Kumm, Aidan Stech, and Dawson
Gansebom.
The students’ next competition will be District Livestock Judging on January 25th at Northeast
Community College.