Camp Verde High School students took first place in a regional National FFA Organization event in Chino Valley this month.
The event was at Yavapai College’s Agribusiness and Science Technology Center.
Now the students are getting ready to compete in a state competition in December at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus in Mesa.
The students competed in Chino Valley against other students from around the area in challenges that tested their knowledge of Floriculture, Food Science and Wildlife, among other things.
Once called Future Farmers of America, the student chapters of the national organization now abbreviate to FFA.
Floriculture is the science of flowers, from growing them to arranging and identifying.
The Camp Verde students placed first overall in the regional competition when it came to flowers.
The food science students placed second overall, with events that tested their knowledge of food safety, food identification and their ability to create and market a food product.
Kalea Taylor, the FFA advisor and agriculture education teacher at Camp Verde High School, said that students in the competition were from everywhere between Peoria and Seligman.
The competition is considered a test in career development events, Taylor said.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Nov. 26, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
