What's in FFA

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• Chapter Overview
• Classroom/Laboratory
• FFA
• SAE
• Travel
• Earning Money
• Serving your Community
• Field Trips
• The FFA and Your Career

What's in FFA for Me?
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What's In FFA For Me?
The agriculture education in which you are
enrolled consists of three major components

• The agriculture program consists of three
  components
• Classroom/Laboratory
• FFA
• SAE

Classroom/Labratory
FFA
SAE
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FFA

• FFA is the organization for students who are
  studying many agricultural areas.
• It provides opportunities to practice what youre
  learning in the classroom in real life situations
  and develop leadership skills.

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SAE

• Supervised Agricultural Experience Program gives
  you a chance to explore areas of agriculture that
  you are interested in.

Visit SAE Central
http//www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/sae/toolbox/index.
html
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Travel
Travel As you participate in FFA activities, you
will take field trips, travel to state and and
national conventions, or travel overseas as part
of the international exchange program!
You are here, and here, and here, and...
Where will your future take you?
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Earn Money
Going to College? FFA can help put you there.
Each year the National FFA Organization awards
more than 1 million in scholarships.
By becoming an FFA member and starting a
Supervised Agriculture Experience Program (SAE),
you can earn money while learning about the
different areas of agriculture. Your high school
agriculture instructor will work with you to
design a program just for you!
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Look What Else FFA Has To Offer
Be a Team Member
Have Fun
Go On Field Trips
Serve Your Community
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The FFA and Your Career

• Agriculture Career Categories
• Marketing, merchandising, and sales
• Science and engineering
• Management and finance
• Education and communications
• Social services
• Agricultural production

You already know agriculture is more than
farming. Agriculture is our nations largest
employer, and its related fields comprise close
to 25 percent of all jobs in this country.
While raising crops and livestock remains the
solid foundation for all agriculturally related
careers, only 8 percent are in the production
area of agriculture . The remaining 92 of
agriculture jobs are in agribusiness, science,
marketing, communications, and other exciting
areas.
Visit the Agriculture Career Center at
http//www.ffa.org
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