Officers of several local FFA chapters participated in the 2021 Oklahoma FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Training Conference Aug. 31 at the LifeChurch in McAlester.

The eight state FFA officers planned and conducted this year’s conference based on the theme, “Lead Up.” Elected officers from each of the 79 high school FFA chapters in the Southeast area attended the conference, which equipped each student with leadership tools that focused on specific officer duties and leading when one is unsure what to do

Rhett Laubach, Edmond, Oklahoma, was the keynote speaker for the conference. He is an accomplished professional speaker, leadership coach and served as state FFA president in 1992-1993.

“Oklahoma FFA is such an incredible organization because of the natural leadership that is found in our membership,” said Dalton Rogers, state FFA president. “As an association we want to make sure that those officers elected to serve on the local level are prepared to “Lead Up” within their chapters. Expressing to the best of their abilities the leadership that our association is best known for.”

Officers attending from the Bowlegs Chapter were Dakota Duncan, President; Megan Ward, Vice President; Kaitlyn Oliver, Secretary; Paris Woodruff, Treasurer and Chad Huckleberry, Adviser.

Butner Chapter: Kenna Miller, President; Blake Wheeler, Vice President; Brooklyn Johnson, Secretary; Savannah Neace, Treasurer; Katelyn Neace, Reporter; Yessenia Rosas-Garcia, Sentinel and Kyle Devereaux, Adviser.

Konawa Chapter: Julie Coats, President; Miguel Juarez, Vice President; Grace Blackburn, Secretary; Pake Eberly, Treasurer; Tanner Johnson, Reporter; Caden Burris, Sentinel and Jack Gorczyca, Adviser.

Strother Chapter: Taleigh Estrada, President; Hailey Sims, Vice President; Joseph Mason, Secretary; Gabe Fiegener, Treasurer; Maddie Douthit, Reporter; Jordyn Bertrem, Sentinel and Randy Bean, Adviser.

Wewoka Chapter (Picture unavailable): Charlie Young, President; Emma Wood, Vice President; Teagan Cain, Secretary; Trayce Patterson, Treasurer; Elizabeth Stanfield, Reporter; Sarah Allen, Sentinel and Paige Azlin, Adviser.

COLT Conference is sponsored by Public Service Company of Oklahoma as a special project of the Oklahoma FFA Foundation. FFA is an integral part of the agricultural education division of the Oklahoma Department of CareerTech Education. There are 24,269 Oklahoma FFA members in 365 high schools statewide. For more information visit www.okffa.org.

About FFA

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. For this reason, the name of the organization was updated in 1988 after a vote of national convention delegates to reflect the growing diversity and new opportunities in the industry of agriculture.

FFA continues to help the next generation rise up to meet those challenges by helping its members to develop their own unique talents and explore their interests in a broad range of agricultural career pathways. So today, we are still the Future Farmers of America. But, we are the Future Biologists, Future Chemists, Future Veterinarians, Future Engineers and Future Entrepreneurs of America, too.

Today, the National FFA Organization remains committed to the individual student, providing a path to achievement in premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Our members live the motto Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live and Living to Serve. FFA members rise to the challenge of service embracing members of all walks of life united through FFA.

The heart of the National FFA Organization is at the local chapter level. FFA chapter may be chartered in any public school with an agricultural education program.

Leadership is provided by student officers who are elected each year by the chapter’s members, and by the agriculture teacher who serves as the advisor for the chapter.

State FFA Associations FFA is an organization made up of state associations; those state associations are made up of local chapters.

State FFA Associations