1. La Porte High School FFA
Re-established: 2015

2. What is FFA?
The National FFA Organization was first established in 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri.
The letters F.F.A. originally stood for Future Farmers of America, but, over the years, it has changed to The National FFA Organization. The named was changed in 1988 because FFA is not just for students who want to be production farmers; FFA also welcomes members who aspire to careers as teachers, doctors, scientists, business owners and more.

3. The Mission Statement
“FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.”

4. La Porte High School FFA
After nearly 30 years of not having an FFA Organization at La Porte High School, the agricultural teacher, Mr. Robert Walker, restarted the program in January 2015.
Mr. Walker has introduced many new classes to the high school such as Intro to agriculture, advanced animal science, landscaping, and next year we hope to have an agricultural mechanics class.
The first year of the program the LaPorte FFA had nearly 50 members join.
This year we have around 68 members.
In the FFA program we compete in Soil Judging, Livestock Judging, and Forestry Judging.

5. Soil Judging
This year, we competed at the La Porte Soil Invitational at Parkman Farms in Westville and we placed 3rd.

6. Forestry Contest
La Porte High School had an Invitational Forestry Competition at Luhr Park and we had 5 schools attend.
We plan to compete in this contest in the future.
Emma Marsh placed 6th
Kaelyn Oman placed 3rd
Overall our district placed 2nd

7. Forestry
It is the first time we have ever had two members and a CDE team qualify for the state finals at Purdue University. Kaelynn Oman, our Parliamentarian, got the second highest individual score overall.

8. 2016-2017 Officers President- Ryan Netzer Vice President- Ryan Downs
Secretary- Ashley Olling
Treasurer- Katie Parsons
Sentinel- Caleb Robinson
Reporter- Aubrey Gierke
Parliamentarian- Kaelynn Oman
Historian- Schasta Antrim
Chaplin- Olivia West

9. Hog Roast Fundraiser
We had our 2nd Annual Hog Roast Fundraiser in September and we raised money for our community service project.
200 people were served and we made $

10. Community Service Project
For our community service project we decided to help the Pax Center. We purchased the food and also donated money for upcoming community meals.
The Pax Center is a place where individuals and families dealing with difficult life circumstances can be assisted through the food pantry, community meal & resource center.
Helping at the Pax Center taught us how to prepare a meal for almost 100 people in under 2 hours and also how to work as a team to achieve a goal.

11. Community Service

12. Our Ag Plot
The FFA and agriculture classes for the high school have a plot of land for planting crops located next to the La Porte Educational Service Center Building.
Last year we planted sweet corn and sunflowers, which we sold at the local farmer’s market.
This year we planted sweetcorn and pumpkins. We harvested 180 pumpkins and donated some of them to the Handley Elementary students.
We also served the sweetcorn at lunch for LPHS students and staff to enjoy.