This year, the 94th Annual State Future Farmers of America Leadership Conference will be held in Sacramento from March 26-29 for Sierra Pacific FFA students. Thousands of FFA members from 342 chapters get to get experience in the industry and college, develop team leadership skills, discover many career paths, and celebrate their accomplishments.
According to Calaged.org, the official FFA website, registration was from Dec. 1, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022. On February 15, purchase orders will be postmarked to be eligible for early registration and mailed to the California FFA center. Information regarding registration pick up will be emailed in March. Registration includes credentials, conference T-shirt, access to conference programs, leadership workshops, and career expo.
Many events will be held such as world class concerts in the Golden One Arena, campus tours in universties, motivational speakers, career expo, hall of chapters, state finals, agriscience fairs, scholarship interviews and more. Students get to develop leadership skills, discover career paths through these activities. The theme for the convention this year is “emerge”.
Analyssa Gonzalez, who is one of the advisors for FFA at Sierra Pacific, said the keynote speaker on the first night is always good and impactful.
“They always got a really cool message and apparently this year, the new speaker is someone new they’ve never had before,” she said. “He’s like a highly desired speaker around the state so that should be really cool.”
Gonzalez said the career show is cool for students because they get to interact with different people and gain experience in their careers by attending one of the career events.
“There’s always cool stuff for them to take home and I think it’s a good experience,” Gonzalez said. She said, explaining the positive benefits and opportunities students get to have through meeting influential guests and learning more about each other. This event would be a good experience for FFA members ro branch out and make good memories.
Students are supposed to have a B or better in their agriculture or animal science classes and must maintain a B throughout the conference. They also need to have an active SAE project with their AET up to date, attend four FFA activities and have a cultiminative 2.0 GPA in the fall semester, according to the FFA chapter classroom.
Delegates for the state convention have voted for the final six state officers. Every year, six students are elected to represent the State Officers Association.
One of the new officers is Marc Cabeliza who served as the national convention delegate and is from Pioneer Valley high school in Santa Maria. Hannah Hunkle, from Apple Valley High school attended the Sacramento leadership conference and served as a facilitator and a finalist at Job Interview leadership events. The officer teams build connections and create plans on how to engage members in activities and strengthen connection with members.