I Was at my Best When.......

When I was in high school, I was a part of my school's FFA chapter. My sophomore year I was put in as the Vice-President because the current one had graduated earlier in the year. After getting some experience, I decided I was going to run for the President's position the following year.

I ran for president my junior year and won the election. I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me because we were rebuilding our chapter's participation in the community and of it's memebers. Our advisor, also our Agriculture teacher, Mr. Evan Babcock was new to our school my sophomore year, and the previous teacher wasn't as involved in FFA as him. Mr. Babcock wanted more out of the chapter and asked for my help in gaining new members into the chapter and retaining our standing members. I gladly took the job, and pursued it tenaciously. Throught the rest of that year the rest of the officer team and I focused on our community service participation and such. In the midst of doing that, I also attempted to get people excited about being in the FFA and helping others and learning what agriculture was all about.

I feel that year of high school was me at my best. Not only did I manage to retain our standing members but added many new ones as well. The Panorama FFA chapter was in the local newspapers a lot for the next year. One thing we did was we had an appreciation breakfast for our staff at our school. We continued that tradition through my senior year, and I believe they still do it. Now, I'm not taking credit for the breakfast idea, but I will take some credit for getting students involved in the chapter, the breakfast, and other things like parades and other service projects. It was a great year for me, my grades, my chapter, and my self-esteem. Mr. Babcock continues to brag about me a lot to this day. I just figured it was the right thing to do.

I will use what I did at "my best" in college by getting involved in things like my agriculture education club and hopefully even the hixson program. Hopefully this will help me through my first semester, and the rest of school. I want to be a big part of these things and people's lives. I enjoy helping others and hope to continue to do so throught college and the rest of my life.