Leadership Development Events focus on creating situations for members to demonstrate their abilities in public speaking, decision making, communication and their knowledge of agriculture and the FFA organization. Team and individual events are used to reinforce what is taught in agricultural science classrooms.
All LDE events have elimination rounds at the district and area before the state level competition. Please refer to your district and area calendars for competition dates.
Agricultural Issues Forum
A team of 3 to 7 students research and analyze a current agricultural issue, create a portfolio and also develop and deliver a presentation that stresses both pros and cons of their selected agricultural issue. At the event competition, members use verbal skills and presentation abilities to defend their findings and answer judges’ questions.
Chapter Conducting
Teams conduct a mock chapter meeting to demonstrate knowledge of basic parliamentary law and the use of correct parliamentary procedures. At the conclusion of the meeting, team members are asked questions regarding parliamentary law.
There are both Greenhand and senior levels for this event.
Creed Speaking
A member presents the FFA Creed from memory and answers questions about its meaning and purpose. This event is just one way to boost self-confidence, earn recognition, and develop powerful, organized and professional communication skills.
There are both Greenhand and senior levels for this event.
Greenhand FFA Quiz
An exam testing knowledge of the Grays Guide to Parliamentary Procedure for FFA and FFA knowledge including history, facts, business structure, leadership and programs is given to individuals. Quiz teams can be made of 3 or 4 members.
Senior FFA Quiz
An exam testing team members’ understanding of the FFA, agricultural education, current agricultural events and parliamentary procedure is given. Teams can be made of 3 or 4 members.
FFA Radio
A team of 3 members presents an informative radio program covering one or more agricultural subjects that is current in nature and local in content. The contest assumes that the chapter has a regularly scheduled non-commercial radio program once each month over a local station.
Job Interview
At the competition, each member submits their resume, completes a job application for an agricultural position on site and participates in an interview via telephone, in person one-on-one and with a panel of possible employers.
Public Relations
A team of between two and four FFA members develops and presents a 5-8 minute program to inform an adult group regarding the Texas FFA and what it represents. The presentation is developed assuming that the adult group has no knowledge of the FFA. Team members are asked questions in response to their program following the presentation.
Skills Demonstration
A team of 3-5 members performs an actual demonstration of an agricultural skill including anything in the Agricultural Science and Technology curriculum using effective public speaking and communication methods.
There are both Greenhand and senior levels for this event.
On November 7, 2008 these students went to Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas to compete in the District Leadership Development Event. Grapeland FFA took eight teams consisting of Junior and Senior Skills, Public Relations, Job Interview, Radio, Junior Quiz, and Junior and Senior Creed Speaking. We recieved banners in all but two events.
