FFA Proficiency Awards

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FFA Proficiency Awards
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What is a Proficiency Award?

• An award presented by the National FFA to
  recognize excellence in a SAE program.
• There are over 40 areas of agriculture for which
  awards are available.

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Proficiency Awards

• Proficiency award winners are recognized at the
• local level
• district, federation and/or area level
• state level
• national level

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Proficiency Awards

• Medals and certificates are available free to be
  awarded at the local level. All a teacher has to
  do is to request them from the National FFA.

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Changing the Proficiency Program!

• In 1995 the FFA Proficiency Award Program was
  changed substantially
• Number of award categories increased from 29 to
  over 40

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Changing the Proficiency Program!

• In 1995 the FFA Proficiency Award Program was
  changed substantially
• Placement and entreprenuership students are now
  recognized in each category (if funding is
  available)

Entrepreneurship
Placement
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Changing the Proficiency Program!

• In 1995 the FFA Proficiency Award Program was
  changed substantially
• Two award applications (one for placement and one
  for entrepreneurship) replaced 29 separate
  application forms. The form wasmade simpler and
  more complex.

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Why Change?

• Expand opportunities for students
• Recognize changes in agriculture
• Reduce complexity of having 29 different
  applications
• More accurately reflect modern accounting
  practices

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Helping Students Win!

• Give first year students the application forms,
  dont wait until they are juniors or seniors.

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Helping Students Win!

• Use the form to select chapter proficiency winners

1st
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Helping Students Win!

• Keep a file of past winners

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Helping Students Win!

• Take pictures throughout the year

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Helping Students Win!

• Neatness makes a big impression

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Helping Students Win!

• Have a Wall of Fame

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• Have students visit the FFA Proficiency Timeline
  page on the World Wide Web.

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Proficiency Award Categories

• Numbers vary from year to year depending upon
  sponsorship
• At the national level, the top four individuals
  in placement and in entrepreneurship are
  recognized in each category (a total of eight).
  If adequate sponsorship is not available both
  placement and entrepreneurship are grouped
  together for judging and the top four are
  recognized. The on the slides that follow
  indicate the twoare grouped in that category.

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Agricultural Communications
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Agricultural Mechanical Technical Systems
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Agricultural Processing
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Agricultural Sales and/or Service
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Beef Production
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Cereal Grain Production
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Dairy Production
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Diversified Crop Production
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Diversified Livestock Production
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Emerging Agricultural Technology
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Environmental Science
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Equine Science
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Feed Grain Production
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Fiber Crop Production
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Floriculture
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Food Science and Technology
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Forage Production
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Forest Management
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Fruit and/or Vegetable Production
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Home and/or Community Development
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Landscape Management
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Nursery Operations
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Oil Crop Production
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Outdoor Recreation
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Poultry Production
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Sheep Production
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Small Animal Care
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Soil and Water Management
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Specialty Animal Production
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Specialty Crop Production
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Swine Production
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Turf Grass Management
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Wildlife Management
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Getting More Information?

• Talk with experienced teachers
• Visit the FFA Proficiency Award Web Site to see
  what awards are available.
• Breaking information can be found at the FAQ
  section of the Proficiency Award Web Site.
• The FFA Proficiency Award Handbook is on-line on
  the World Wide Web

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Mistakes to Avoid

• In completing the proficiency application
• Using the FFA software will prevent some of the
  common mistakes
• Make sure the numbers are realistic
• scope (yields, gain)
• cost (too little)
• logic (2,0003,0004,000)
• The ending inventory one year is thebeginning
  inventory for the next
• Watch your spelling

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Pictures

• Dont Say This is a picture of.
• Change shirts/caps
• Make captions action oriented Suckering tomatoes
  has been shown to
• Dont show unsafe practices in your pictures
  (such as no safety glasses)