In a little corner of the Indianapolis State Fairgrounds Horticulture Building, groups of Floral Evaluators, including many AIFD members from around the United States, intensely judged 180 High School FFA students’ entries as they competed for the coveted National FFA Floriculture title.
For five FFA Teams from across the United States, the second “Bring FFA to AIFD Virtual Workshop,” hosted by the AIFD® Career Development Committee was a day to remember. The FFA chapters focused on this year’s theme of “Fun with Creativity” with design instructors, Lisa Belisle AIFD, Lesleighan Cravens AIFD, Sharon McGukin AIFD, and Julia Marie Schmitt AIFD.
For members of AIFD® sharing our passion for our profession is just what we do. Julia Marie Schmitt AIFD was able to do just that thanks to being involved with the AIFD® Career Development Committee. Through this committee she met a local FFA instructor and was ableto help her home state FFA team win the 2021 FFA National Floriculture Championship.
After two years of postponements, the AIFD® Career Development Committee on September 25, 2021, finally hosted its Bring FFA to AIFD® Virtual Workshop.
If you ever have worked with FFA members, were an FFA Member or have had the opportunity to attend FFA National Convention, you have experienced first-hand the character and integrity of these future leaders in the multi-faceted field of agriculture and ag. business.
AIFD and the 2019/2020 Career Development Team are grateful to AFE (The American Floral Endowment Fund) who has granted the Intuition, Imagination and Illusion – Vision 2020 through Education Focus on the Future – Bringing FFA to the AIFD Symposium project with a significant contribution for the 2020 FFA symposium workshop scholarships.