Liam HalawithMaroon Echoes Editor. At the Mt. Pleasant Community School Board meeting Monday night, the board considered a motion granting permission to the new Mt. Pleasant FFA organization to go on an overnight trip to the FFA National Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana between October 29th and November 2nd.
The trip will consist of many tours and workshops: Day 1 they will visit the convention’s Career and College expo, where students can see all of the different agriculture-related careers and possible college degree options. At the end of the day, they will tour a local dairy farm. Day 2, they will go to Louisville and tour Churchill Downs a horse track, Louisville Slugger Factory and Museum, and Amos Hills classic lumber mill, that night they will tour Hunter’s honey farm. On Day 3 they will attend sessions at the National Convention in Lucas Oil Stadium, the home of the Indianapolis Colts. Their FFA advisor Mr. Jones says, “I can only preach so much about FFA, but they never really grasp it until they can experience how huge FFA is for themselves.” Jones says that FFA is now the largest student-led organization in the nation with 700,000 members. Jones himself has never been to the national convention and is looking forward to seeing it for himself. He hopes that this will become a yearly trip for many years to come. Students in attendance will be Jackson Schimelphenig, Grace Scheetz, and Mitchell Moothart. On the trip they will share accommodations and tours with Mediapolis, Calamus, Wheatland, Danville, and Lone Tree schools. The students are scheduled to give a presentation to the school board on how their trip went when they return home.
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